A Step Ahead

Sue Cato is the go-to person to call during a crisis. As an expert in corporate issues management, she knows exactly which course of action to take when an errant CEO is caught with his hands in someone else’s hip pocket, having worked as a discrete adviser to many of Australia’s top companies for over three decades. In a two-pronged approach, she duels with a ruthless media in an effort to protect her clients as well as working with the press to present prescient, although sometimes controversial, social commentaries on television and radio.

To say that the Sydney-based collector runs a public-relations company somehow belittles the business, tainting it with some sort of dark, slippery underbelly status. She prefers to describe her (2018), a response to racially-motivated police violence in America, that filled the exhibition areas of Carriageworks from November, 2018, to early March. She hardly drew a breath before then waxing lyrical about Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, whose vibrant drapes, fashioned from liquor bottle tops, were exhibited there in 2015.