John Keats is well known to the Australian Art Auction Industry. After completing post graduate studies in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University, John joined Deutscher~Menzies in early 1999 as Registrar, eventually attaining the position of National Operations Manager. In 2011 John became Senior Executive Officer at Sotheby’s Australia, where he headed their media, marketing and design departments, along with operations of their national auctions. Recently John has been working independently on the catalogue raisonnés of the Australian artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme. John has returned to Menzies as their Chief Operating Officer in 2022.