Perspective is an art consultancy specialising in the creation of fine art collections in a variety of corporate, healthcare, hotel, leisure, residential, retail and public spaces. Our focus is to provide engaging environments through artistic interventions and creative collaborations.

Projects range from the acquisition of one unique piece or commission to the development and management of an entire collection. A specific programme is developed for each client based on their needs and interests, which might include acquisitions, exhibitions, research, valuations, conservation, fabrication, framing, transport and installation. Collaboration with architects, designers, developers and multi-disciplinary teams is often involved in each project.

The process involves exposure to an international array of both emerging and established artists and the selection of art includes a variety of styles and mediums such as ceramics, furniture, glass, light, paintings, photography, prints, sculpture, textiles, video, water and environmental art.

About the Founder

In 2005, Kate Sweeney founded Perspective with a view to leading collaborative creative efforts with international artists, architects, developers, and occupiers of buildings in order to integrate art within a variety of schemes around the world. For further information, click here.

Selected Clients

• Aberdeen Asset Management
• American Express
• Ballymore Properties
• British Land
• CMA
• Derwent London
• Dubai Healthcare City
• Endo Health Solutions
• EPR Architects
• Finisterre Capital
• Freshwater Group of Companies
• Harvard Medical School Dubai Center

• Houlihan Lokey
• M3 Consulting
• Marathon Asset Management
• Marex Financial
• McGraw-Hill Companies
• NBBJ
• Norman Rourke Pryme
• OMA
• Qatar Foundation
• Skidmore Owings & Merrill
• Swire Hotels
• Urban Land Institute

Acquisitions and Exhibitions
Creation and development of corporate, private and public collections, including acquisitions, site-specific installations and rotating exhibitions.

Curatorial Advisory and Public Art Strategies
Wide ranging curatorial advisory and research of artists appropriate for each project, masterplanning, feasibility studies, brief development, timelines and budget analysis.

Collaboration
Working with architects, landscape architects, developers and multi-disciplinary teams to integrate art within buildings, landscapes, regeneration projects and urban environments.

Collections Management
Conservation, inventories, database management, valuations, re-framing, storage, transport and rotation of existing collections.

Display and Installation
Technical supervision of presentation and installation of art including layout, placement, framing, display cases and object mounting.

Design and Publicity
Production of art catalogues, brochures, invitations, leaflets, labels, signage and visuals that highlight each art collection.

Always design a thing by considering its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Eero Saarinen

Art does not reproduce what we see, rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Mies van der Rohe

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit the Frog

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi

The object of art is to give life a shape.
William Shakespeare