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The DNA of success

From medicine and law to politics, architecture and the arts, there is an established rite of passage when a child follows an illustrious parent into their profession.

Brook Turner
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Two years ago the Sydney art dealer Ray Hughes and his son Evan went into business together as God – or Ray – had always intended. Evan not only grew up with art but had deepened his experience with an art history degree at Cambridge and a stint in the London gallery scene.

Yet perched above the father ship in Sydney’s Surry Hills, the Evan Hughes Gallery sailed into trouble almost immediately, opening in the global credit crisis of October 2008.

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