Michael Brand has been director of the Art Gallery of NSW since 2012. He lives in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, with his wife Tina and staffy-boxer cross Frankie.

Saturday morning | If the weather’s nice Tina and I will cook a late breakfast and have it out on the deck. We talk about the week, and about our daughters. Isabel is living in London and Claudia is living in Los Angeles, so we’re working out the different time zones and when to catch up with them. Thank god for FaceTime and things like that.