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Inside the mind of an art patron

What drives a collector to amass artworks, build a multi-million dollar museum to house them, then happily hand it over?

27 Mar 2019 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Corbett Lyon, the architect behind the $14.5 Housemuseum Galleries, created with his wife Yueji and opened in Kew this week; Photo ArtsHub

The passions that drive art collectors are idiosyncratic. Besieged by a hunger, an active collector will be constantly planning the next purchase or artist to support; searching for that missing work. Theirs is a highly developed pursuit for perfection.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina