David Gonski has chaired some big companies, but says his ability to achieve consensus around a board table has never been so tested as in the annual judging for the Archibald Prize.
The chair of Sydney Airport and chancellor of the University of NSW was reminiscing this week about his second eight-year presidency of the Art Gallery of NSW Trust, which will end on December 31 to be assumed by Michael Rose, former Allens partner and chair of the Committee for Sydney think tank.