...in the business of art

artacus provides expert financial consultancy and recruitment services to the art industry


we deliver simple and effective solutions to the unique challenges faced by artists, gallaries, institutions and other professionals in today's art industry  

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR SUPPORT

  • review and design of financial systems
  • regulatory compliance (TA, 5AMLD, sales tax, VAT, HMRC, overseas entitites, year end filings etc.)
  • sales agreeement struturing
  • artwork commission agreements
  • management reporting, budgeting and forecasting
  • perfomance measurement
  • industry benchmarking
  • company restruturings
  • tax planning

ABOUT

RECRUITMENT SERVICES

  • specialists in finance staff recruitment
  • senior managment and executive search
  • staff recruitment (registrars, IT, techs, artist laison, operations, PAs etc)
  • company human resource audits
  • staff reviews and restructurings
  • compensation and remuneration scheme design 

Tim Clements ACA, artcus founder, is uniquley placed to understand the commercial challenges faced by the art world.


Having held Finance and Commercial Director roles at Blain Southern and Victoria Miro, Tim founded artacus as an independent, confidential consultancy firm providing  support to senior art industry professionals.


With 25 years of board level experience in the arts, music and sport, Tim is uniquely placed to apply his commercial knowldege in driving change and preparing art businesses to cope with an increasingly fast changing world. 


"Artacus was founded in response to the demand for insightful and targeted business advice on issues directly relevant to the art world.  What we deliver are no nonsense, common sense solutions to complex problems."

"Tim has had a major impact on our business. His vision, clear thinking and commercial insight has resulted in a significant improvement in financial control, real-time commercial decision making and resource management; all achieved employing a pleasant, understanding and sensitive manner" 

Victoria Miro, Victoria Miro Gallery 

tim clements

artacus limited

+44 (0)7795 198734


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