Meet the Team

Matt Ball brings 30 years' experience in print and digital media to his role of Publishing Director at Antiques Trade Gazette. His previous roles include Global Publishing Lead and Editor-in-Chief at MSN, Microsoft's consumer portal, and Publisher and Editor at Euromoney Institutional Investor.

Laura Chesters is deputy editor, news at ATG. She writes articles across the art and antiques market and is developing ATG’s presence on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. She spent six years working as a business correspondent on national newspapers including the Daily Mail, The Independent and Evening Standard.

Roland Arkell is deputy editor, features and supplements. He has been writing about all aspects of the art and antiques market for close to 20 years. 

Alex Capon is Digital Editor and Art Market Editor for Antiques Trade Gazette, covering all aspects of reporting on auctions for paintings, drawing, prints and sculpture at sales in the UK, US and across the globe.

Frances Allitt is the dealers and fairs editor for Antiques Trade Gazette. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute with an MA in history of art, her past experience includes three and a half years as a fine art underwriter at Ecclesiastical Insurance. Her journalism experience includes a regular column in Galleries magazine.

Tom Derbyshire has been a journalist for nearly 20 years in a variety of roles including editor. At ATG he is chief production editor. He also has special responsibility for reporting on medals and militaria.

Anne Crane has been writing about all aspects of the UK and International Art and Antiques Market for over 40 years. She is the commissioning editor of Antiques Trade Gazette.

Ian McKay writes on books, maps and manuscripts for ATG and other British and American journals. He was ATG’s deputy editor from when the publication was launched in 1971 until going freelance in 1994. For 40 years he has also contributed a ‘Letter from London’ on broader aspects of the art market for a leading US monthly.

Joan Porter has been writing the Fairs and Markets column for Antiques Trade Gazette for over a decade.

Terence Ryle is a freelance journalist covering the UK’s provincial auctions. A journalist for the national press for most of his career, he has also been associated with ATG since the paper’s early years.

Freelance reporter Jonathan Franks covers auctions, dealers and fairs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Gabriel Berner is a freelance journalist who writes for Antiques Trade Gazette, reporting on a wide variety of sales and dealerships.

Milton Silverman is a partner at Streathers Solicitors LLP in London’s West End. He has been advising and assisting galleries, dealers, collectors, auction houses and public institutions on the wide range of legal issues that arise from transacting in art and antiques on a global basis for over 20 years. Milton has been Antiques Trade Gazette’s legal columnist since 2004.

Rachel Fellman came to Antiques Trade Gazette after working as a researcher in the Restitution Department at Christie’s and as community engagement manager for a Heritage Lottery Project. She now works for us as a freelancer visiting and writing about fairs, markets and other events.

Richard Falkiner is a coin expert. He compiles the annual coins and medals survey for Antiques Trade Gazette.

Mark Bridge joined Antiques Trade Gazette in 1979. He has a deep understanding of the art and antiques business worldwide, as well as a wide experience in publishing and management. He now writes for ATG as a freelancer covering arms and armour.