Spending an hour in the company of Suzanne Cotter, the new boss of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney, elicits an unexpected response. Here is a highly experienced international director who left Australia 33 years ago and has lived and worked in some of the world’s most desirable cities and cultural institutions. And yet to hear Cotter explain why she gave up all that those cultural capitals embodied to return her native Australia provokes a glow of pride in both Sydney and the nation’s cultural landscape.
“Coming from abroad having lived in Paris, London, New York as well as Porto, some of the great capitals of the western world, I feel Sydney has as
