The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young artists in Sydney working multiple part-time jobs to support their exhibiting career.
“In the late eighties I saw artists who needed a hand” he explains, with the same purposeful succinctness he gives to all the topics we discuss. “The first artist’s work I ever sold was John R Walker, who was showing at a gallery and had been owed money for a long time. I just put some of his work in a folder and sold it to friends and collectors who I knew.”
“I was
