Simon Terrill, Balfron Tower, 2010, type C analogue print,
Victoria Reichelt, English Fairytales 2010, Oil on Linen
The Art of better leadership conversations
Office Art | Work was founded by Graham Seldon who has a 30 year career in executive search for professional services firms.
Meeting with leaders at pivotal moments in their career; he began to notice something: the most important conversations didn’t belong in boardrooms. They needed a different setting. One that softened traditional hierarchy and sharpened thinking.
So he changed the setting.
This is not an office in the traditional sense.
There are no signals of status.
No corner offices.
No long boardroom tables.
Instead, there is art.
Painting. Photography. Ceramics.
Works collected over two decades, many early-career artists whose journeys he supported in parallel with the executives he and his team placed.
The art is not backdrop.
It sets the tone. It slows the room.
It shifts perspective.
It makes space for better questions and emboldens creative thinking.
Now he also hosts group executive conversations; bringing people together to share knowledge and to think creatively about the world of work and its opportunities and challenges,
There are also lots of small networking events planned, with the grooviest drinks trolley you’ll ever see!
Art to InSPIRE & CHALLENGE THINKING
The Office Art | Work space actively challenges individuals and teams to step beyond conventional frameworks and habitual ways of thinking. Through facilitated conversations, shared observation and personal reflection, the artworks become prompts for seeing problems from unexpected angles and questioning long-held assumptions about work and success.
The space helps people reframe challenges, expand their perspective and discover new ways of approaching the world of work in ways that are more human, creative and adaptive to change.
Jeremy Olson, Untitled #2, 2010, Oil on Board