BONHAMS APPOINT LUCINDA BREDIN AS GLOBAL DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Bonhams announced this week that from November 1st Lucinda Bredin will lead the company’s international communications. Our Coverage Sponsored by Bergen Linen
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Lucinda is currently the Arts Editor of The Week and Editor of Bonhams Magazine, which she has edited since 2004. She is a regular contributor to the national press in Britain, including the FT and Economist. In the past, she has also written for The Sunday Telegraph, The Art Newspaper, The Independent, The Observer and The Guardian and a wide range of publications such as Vogue, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, English Heritage Magazine, Coutts magazine, Harpers and Tatler.
Lucinda also edits The Week’s Independent Schools Supplement. Besides her writing commitments she has also headed the marketing and editorial strategy for Grange Park Opera.
Lucinda studied at the University of Edinburgh and has a postgraduate MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is married to writer Bruce Palling and they have two sons aged 22 and 20.
Lucinda’s career began as an Exhibitions Curator, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, (1985-1987), during which she was also Art Critic for Eddy Shah’s Sunday Today. She then joined the Evening Standard (1988-1991) and became Editor of London Life and then Deputy Editor, ES Magazine. Other positions held include Senior Editor, Tatler; Deputy and Features Editor, Harpers & Queen; Arts and Heritage Features Writer, Sunday Telegraph; and Editorial Director of Grandtrunk.com, a travel website.
For the Bonhams magazine she has secured contributions from Sir Harold Evans, Max Hastings, John Julius Norwich, Eddie Izzard, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeremy Paxman, Colin Firth, Hugo Vickers, Howard Jacobson, Ian McKellen and Dan Snow. She has also interviewed art world figures such as Nicholas Serota, Thomas P Campbell of the Metropolitan Museum, Charles Saumarez Smith, and the Hermitage’s Mikhail Piotrovsky on the state of the art world as well as collectors such as Wang Wei, Hilary Weston, Anita Zabludowicz and Louise MacBain.
Matthew Girling, Bonhams joint global CEO comments: “We are delighted to welcome Lucinda to this new role. She has done a brilliant job on our flagship marketing vehicle, the Bonhams magazine for a decade and we look forward to seeing her take on this new challenge, leading and coordinating our communications teams and consultants to raise Bonhams profile in all of the 27 countries where we are currently operating. Her unmatched media and arts networks will serve us well.”
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. The present company was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. In August 2002, the company acquired Butterfields, the principal firm of auctioneers on the West Coast of America. Today, Bonhams offers more sales than any of its rivals, through two major salerooms in London: New Bond Street and Knightsbridge; and a further three in the UK regions and Scotland. Sales are also held in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Carmel, New York and Connecticut in the USA; and Germany, France, Monaco, Hong Kong and Australia. Bonhams has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 25 countries offering sales advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full listing of upcoming sales, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments go to www.bonhams.com.
