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Wednesday, 20 August 2014 10:25

Former Employees of Charles Saatchi to Launch “Gallery Without Walls”

Sharrine Sholtz (left) and Francesca Grillo (right). Sharrine Sholtz (left) and Francesca Grillo (right). The Guardian

All sorts of paths can lead to an art career—and a nation-wide media frenzy never hurts. Francesca Grillo hit the headlines last year, when she was accused, alongside her sister Elisabetta, of defrauding über-collector Charles Saatchi and his former wife Nigella Lawson of £685,000 ($1,140,500) with company credit cards. The sisters were found not guilty in December 2013.

One might have thought that Francesca had seen enough of the art world at the Saatchi-Lawson residence to want to start afresh somewhere else. Quite the opposite. She has teamed up with another former Saatchi employee, Sharrine Scholtz, to launch a gallery-without-walls, Laissez Faire Art.

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