Address and legal information

Address
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
39a Canonbury Square
London N1 2AN
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7704 9522
Fax: +44 (0)20 7704 9531
Email: info@estorickcollection.com

Founders
Michael Estorick and Isobel Estorick

Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation Trustees
Jane McNeill KC - Co-Chair
Alexander Phillips - Co-Chair

Jo Cottrell
Alexander Estorick - Vice Chair
Michael Estorick - President
Kathryn Havelock
Martin Owen

Jo Cottrell is an independent arts manager with 30 years’ experience working in the arts and cultural sector in a variety of fundraising, marketing and event management roles. She is an art historian researching for a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, a volunteer Guide for the Tate galleries and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Alexander Estorick is a media theorist and curator who seeks to develop socially progressive approaches to new technologies. As Editor-in-Chief at Right Click Save, he aims to drive critical conversation about blockchain, NFTs and Web3. He is also Contributing Editor for Art and Technology at Flash Art. Recent curatorial projects include Cure³ at Bonhams, FEMGEN at Art Basel Miami Beach and Ecotone for Feral File. He contributes to various publications – from Frieze to the Financial Times – and is responsible for the first aesthetics of crypto art. He is the grandson of Eric and Salome Estorick.

Michael Estorick was born London 1951, second child of Eric and Salome Estorick. He has lived almost all of his life in London. Michael attended Cambridge (History and History of Art) and art school, author of numerous novels and Chairman since its inception in the mid-1990s of the Estorick Foundation trustees until November 2023.

Kathryn Havelock is a marketing and communications specialist in arts and culture, with a career history including marketing leadership roles at the British Museum, the Wallace Collection, the Design Museum and the V&A. She is a Chartered Marketer and currently leads on the destination marketing at Imperial War Museums for their flagship museum in London and IWM North in Manchester, alongside pursuing an MPhil in Art History at Birkbeck, University of London. She served on the board of the Arts Marketing Association and the Association for Art History. She is also a current trustee of the Collections Trust, the De Morgan Foundation and VocalEyes.

Jane McNeill KC had a successful career in the fields of employment and discrimination law and for many years worked as an Employment Judge and mediator. She sits as a Recorder in the County Court. She is a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn and an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She has a degree from the University of Oxford in Italian and French and has lived in Islington, close to the Estorick, for just over 30 years.

Martin Owen is a retired finance professional with extensive experience of structured products and hedging instruments at banks including HSBC and Lloyds. He is a keen supporter of the arts and was Treasurer of the British Institute of Florence for 13 years.

Alexander Phillips has over 25 years’ experience in corporate finance and capital markets. Beginning his career at CSFB, he moved on to become Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and was subsequently appointed Managing Director of Credit Suisse. His training as an economist led him to take a keen interest in all aspects of industry and commerce, which he has pursued through many transactions with public and private companies. Between 2008 and 2013 he served as Vice Chairman of Notting Hill Housing Group and between 2014 and 2017 he served as Chief Executive Officer of Passtech.

ERIC AND SALOME ESTORICK FOUNDATION
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to nurture understanding and appreciation of art and to ignite new thinking on its role in the face of technological, social and cultural change, among a wide and diverse audience. Central to this mission is the display of works of art, in particular but not exclusively, the collection of Italian art of the late Eric and Salome Estorick.

Exhibit: Display to the general public the Foundation’s permanent collection.

Preserve: Care for the collection in a safe, secure environment maintained to international museum standards.

Engage: Present an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions, which engage with artists, movements and schools, particularly those not widely known in the UK, in dialogue with our permanent collection.

Share: Develop loan partnerships with major public institutions to showcase the collection to the widest possible audience.

Research Excellence: Promote and stimulate new research and scholarship through engagement with the academic community by means of academic programmes and our specialist art library.

Education and Inclusion: Pursue an educational policy which engages with local and specialist audiences through learning and community programmes

• to generate enjoyment of the collection and a greater understanding of interrelationships between art forms
  
• to work as a living arts centre which encourages artists and the public to work together creatively as a way of broadening and developing a critical awareness of an artistic past within the context of the present
  
• to develop participation and interest in art institutions, particularly among those who may for reasons of culture, heritage or socio-economic circumstances currently be under-represented in visitor groups.
  

Financial Sustainability: Support the organisation financially through membership and commercial activities that generate vital income, including revenue from the shop, café and venue hire.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 27 February 2026