The late Sydney art dealer Ray Hughes was ahead of a cultural curve, introducing Australians to contemporary Chinese art in the late 1990s. Among those who discovered contemporary Chinese art at Hughes’ Surry Hills studio was no less than Judith Neilson, whose interest was piqued to such an extent that she would go on to establish the now celebrated White Rabbit gallery in Chippendale.
Ray Hughes and son Evan photographed in The Ray Hughes Gallery in Surry Hills. Andrew Quilty
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
