— PROFILE —
Minutes with… MADELEINE NORTON
In this issue, we spend five minutes with Madeleine Norton, our Sydney based Auction Administrator and Client Liaison.
FAVOURITE MAKER / ARTIST An artist who’s had one of the biggest impacts on
My favourite book that I’ve read recently is Barbara
my life is the contemporary choreographer and artist
Bourland’s ‘Fake Like Me’. It’s a fun fiction novel which
Tino Sehgal. I saw his “constructed situations” at the
combines a mysterious death with the New York art
Guggenheim, NY, when I was 19 and got a complete
scene. Having worked in a contemporary art gallery
shock that what I found myself participating in could be
in New York previously it made me laugh at how
considered art. His work changed my perspective on the
many of the fictional anecdotes hit pretty close to the
definition of art and encouraged me to pursue further
mark.
study in the field. FAVOURITE WORK OF ART / OBJECT
YOUR IDEAL DAY IN SYDNEY I’m a total millennial cliché I’m afraid, I’m usually
This is a completely impossible question but one painting
pretty happy if I can fit in a morning gym or yoga class
that captivated me when I saw it was the surrealist René
followed by a coffee, a walk through Centennial Park
Magritte’s ‘Empire of Light’. I love the subtle paradox of
with a friend and then in the afternoon there’s nothing
the lit streetlamp signalling night-time and the blue sunny
better than being by the water (probably with a drink in
sky of daylight.
hand)!
FAVOURITE COFFEE / WINE / COCKTAIL My friends make fun of me for being a nanna but I absolutely love an Amaretto Sour, pretty much every bartender knows how to make one so it doesn’t matter where you are; they’re such a delicious balance of sweet and sour.
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