{"id":170491,"date":"2023-04-28T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/out-and-about-an-email-from-abroad\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T09:42:02","slug":"out-and-about-an-email-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/out-and-about-an-email-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Out and about: an email from abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Out and about<\/em> is the column where we chat with people who are living or working abroad, or who used to live and work there and have returned to South Africa. We would like to hear more about the experiences you want to share with us. This week we chat with Neels Nieuwenhuis, who works abroad for ten months a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi Neels, it\u2019s great chatting with you. You are spending ten months a year abroad for work purposes. Tell us more about your job. What does a typical day look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First some background about the company so you can get an idea of how things work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I work for Park West Gallery, the biggest privately owned art trader in the world. Our contract is six months work and then six to eight weeks of leave. We have country galleries in Michigan, where our head office and museum are located. We also have galleries in New York, Honolulu, Hawaii and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park West Gallery has a gallery on more than 90 cruise ships across the world. We are placed on any one of the 90 ships. A typical team consists of an art preparator, who deals with the logistics on the ship and ensures that all the art is suitable for us, and two art assosiates (I am one of them) \u2013 a gallery director and an art auctioneer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what a typical day would look like: We mix with the passengers, build relationships with them and get them to attend our seminars and auctions. We present art enrichment seminars about different artists, history of art, art masters, etc. On auction days people attend the auctions and bid on different works of art they like.<\/p>\n\n\n