5 Minutes with Madeleine Norton

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 life is the contemporary choreographer and artist Tino Sehgal. I saw his “constructed situations” at the Guggenheim, NY, when I was 19 and got a complete shock that what I found myself participating in could be considered art. His work changed my perspective on the definition of art and encouraged me to pursue further study in the field.

FAVOURITE WORK OF ART / OBJECT

This is a completely impossible question but one painting that captivated me when I saw it was the surrealist René Magritte’s ‘Empire of Light’. I love the subtle paradox of the lit streetlamp signalling night-time and the blue sunny sky of daylight.

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. FAVOURITE BOOK

My favourite book that I’ve read recently is Barbara Bourland’s ‘Fake Like Me’. It’s a fun fiction novel which combines a mysterious death with the New York art scene. Having worked in a contemporary art gallery in New York previously it made me laugh at how many of the fictional anecdotes hit pretty close to the mark.

YOUR IDEAL DAY IN SYDNEY

I’m a total millennial cliché I’m afraid, I’m usually pretty happy if I can fit in a morning gym or yoga class followed by a coffee, a walk through Centennial Park with a friend and then in the afternoon there’s nothing better than being by the water (probably with a drink in hand)!