Remember Doctor Dolittle’s prized pushmi-pullyu, a kind of double-headed llama with two minds working in tandem? It could be a personification of the co-ordinated effort required to get a new gallery off the ground, juggling different interests and stakeholders and the pull of funding challenges.
COVID, if nothing else, has taught us to think in the abstract, and to push beyond the things that hold us back. I find myself drawing on this odd analogy with the imminent ‘turning of the sod’ for the construction of a new regional gallery in the Southern Highlands, located halfway between Sydney and Canberra in Bowral.
