Beth Greenacre is a curator, advisor, and consultant who has worked with clients including private art collectors, artists’ estates, family offices, and art market professionals. Beth helps her clients build collections with personal, cultural, and critical significance. Her curatorial work focuses on contextualising contemporary global practices through a historical lens.

Collecting art combines intellectual enquiry, aesthetic sensibility and personal meaning. Yet it requires clarity and informed judgement to build collections with long-term value and cultural legacy. With Beth’s expert guidance, the process becomes accessible and rewarding, resulting in collections with the potential to store both financial and cultural value.

Having started her career working as David Bowie’s curator and with close to three decades working in the art market, Beth brings deep knowledge. Her experience is shaped by years of looking at art, analysing the market, and understanding both its inner workings and the personal journeys involved in collecting. She works closely with clients to refine their interests and develop a clear collection strategy, drawing on an extensive network to access the highest-quality works within a given budget.

Her role extends well beyond acquisition; a collection is an evolving entity with a past, present and future, and its management and long-term legacy are considered from the outset. Working closely with collectors, Beth shapes collections of meaning and distinction. This  includes defining a clear vision and strategy, establishing appropriate governance, and developing considered acquisition plans.

Beth ensures collections are managed to the highest standards, advising on best practice across cataloguing, archiving and management systems, as well as insurance, storage and logistics. Her approach supports both the day-to-day stewardship of a collection and its long-term preservation. With a focus on longevity and impact, Beth guides governance structures and helping to define a lasting legacy.