Affordable or significant? Sydney’s biggest art fair offers both
With 86 galleries participating in the Sydney Contemporary art fair, new director Zoe Paulsen reckons visitors will find something that piques their interest.
Lisa Paulsen and daughter Zoe Paulsen with some of their art pieces, including Noel McKenna’s oil on canvas ‘Hamlet’, 2018.
Louise Kennerley
Incoming Sydney Contemporary fair director Zoe Paulsen understands the compulsion to collect better than most: her mother, Lisa, began acquiring contemporary art when Zoe was nine and – according to Lisa herself – “became obsessed within about five minutes”.
Paulsen vividly remembers schoolfriends flocking to her childhood home to eyeball her mother’s latest acquisitions, some of which were decidedly “out there”.
