Her Light Materials

Penelope Seidler has a powerful public presence. Hers is what millennials would define as a “big life.” Involved and curious, she makes her way from undergrad openings in Sydney to the bold face events in Europe and the Museum of Modern Art in New York where she has been a member of the International Council since 1973. An adventurous art collector and forward thinker, she has made bequests to the University of Sydney and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and in 2011 was awarded a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur of France. Her name is tightly bound to modernist architecture through both her own practice and her creative partnership with Harry Seidler. Less known, it seems, is her personal and highly unpredictable relationship to art.

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