Derek Shortall BA, LL.B, ACIArb

 Derek holds a first class honours LLB degree and is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.    

 Derek has worked in the art business since 1986, formerly a proprietor of a Gallery.
 He also  served as consultant to Whytes during its initial transition from Stamps and Collectable  
 Auctioneers to one of Ireland’s leading Art Auctioneers.                                                 

 Susan Stairs ANCAD Dip Vc

 Susan is an associate of the National College of Art and Design since 1983 and a member of the  Irish Association of Art Historians (IAAH) and an MA candidate at UCD.

 Susan has worked in the art business since 1986, formerly a proprietor a Gallery.

 Susan is the biographer of artist Gladys Maccabe and, during the past twenty years, the author of
 numerous books, catalogues and articles on Irish artists such as Markey, Gladys Maccabe, Dillon, O’Neill and Campbell, Anne Yeats, Henry Healy etc.

 Her expertise is regularly relied-upon by Sotheby’s and Christies and her academic work has been quoted in numerous auction catalogues including Adams, Sotheby’s, Christies and Whyte’s. Susan  is also an artist in her own right. Paintings