The new Australian corporate approach to art collecting

After a decade of flogging off their art collections, Australia’s top companies are embracing collecting but they want different results.
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Bill Henson’s Untitled from Paris Opera project (1990) touring from the Wesfarmers Collection.

The landscape of Australia’s corporate art collections has changed dramatically over the past decade.   

With the turn of the millennium, we witnessed a surge of companies selling off their blue chip collections. Art was no longer viewed as a justifiable investment or valued as a reflection of corporate vision.

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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