Guest Work Agency’s Director and Founder Alana Kushnir recently assisted the Victorian Crimes Investigation Unit in identifying, cataloguing and returning missing artworks to eleven artists on a pro bono basis, after more than 70 artworks were discovered in connection with the ongoing investigation into art dealer Tristian Koenig.

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally. In this story, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and Paralegals, Mia Schaumann and Jess Olford report on the Full Federal Court of Australia’s recent determination that an artificial intelligence system cannot be an inventor, the long-running copyright dispute between the Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith, an NFT trade mark dispute plus more.

Art law and advisory firm Guest Work Agency traces the regulatory landscape of artist-gallery relationships in Australia in an article written for the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin.

Guest Work Agency’s Director and Founder Alana Kushnir has been included in the 2023 edition of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Australia guide in the categories of Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Law.

We have worked with both new and long-term clients on a variety of inspiring creative projects this year from high profile commissions for public artworks through to advising new NFT platforms. Read our wrap up of our legal and advisory work highlights from 2021.