Sue Cato emerges from the blur of a fluted glass doorway. Easing open the translucent panel to her grand warehouse home, the communications consultant and crisis manager barely suppresses a chuckle. “Welcome to my humble abode,” she grins, ushering me in.

Scanning the open-plan first floor, I spy five large Bill Henson photographs aligned in an elegant row, a majestically gestural Ben Quilty canvas hung opposite a glittering Jonny Niesche painting, and an imposing wall sculpture composed of hand-forged sickles assembled into a wing shape by artists Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan and given the provocative moniker Left Wing. And that’s just a cursory glance.