POWER BROKER

There are words frequently found in the art collecting vocabulary: primary, secondary, provenance, blue-chip, flip. When we speak via Zoom, Eileen Harris Norton doesn’t use any of these. Instead, she favours words like passion, education and opportunity. For her, the value of art lies in its ability to promote tangible change; art is both a social and economic investment.

In recent years, issues of racial injustice and the lack of visibility given to artists of colour have come to the fore. But, as many museums frantically retrofit their collections to include a wider range of perspectives, some voices have been championing under-represented creatives for