Ask Helen Burton, director of Macquarie Group’s in-house art collection, how she measures success. One way is the number of emails or comments she receives when a painting has been moved.
“I have colleagues ring me and say how much they dislike a piece in an office or a meeting room, and I’m like: ‘That’s fantastic! Tell me why you don’t like it?’” she says, adding that she regularly gets the most feedback about art in the boardroom at the bank’s new Elizabeth Street office in the Sydney central business district.
Jemima WhyteSenior reporterJemima Whyte writes on business, specialising in companies, capital markets and innovation. Jemima has reported on business for The Australian Financial Review for more than 13 years. Email Jemima at jemima.whyte@afr.com
