By Linda Morris
Copyright brisbanetimes
Brownlow was an architect, and very much like a brother to her, inviting her and husband John to dinner parties, and then taking her to performances of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Small was the nephew of Sir William McKell, a former Labor premier who became governor-general, and was a director of Grace Bros department stores. They died without children.
“Part of the fun of being with them was it was all about today, the present,” Wennerbom remembers.
Lee’s Relatum – dialogue will be the couple’s lasting legacy, the first work by Lee to enter the gallery’s collection of minimalist art, along with Lee’s painting Response 2023. Ufan mapped the new commission with timber and chalk on the floor of the Art Gallery of NSW’s loading dock while in Sydney last year for his solo exhibition.
Two granite boulders have been placed on either side of two double-sided polished steel plates, which on one side reflect the new building and the historic sandstone building on the other. The arrangement is intended to be a conversation that connects nature with industrial society.
