When James Brownlow and partner Doug Small gifted their estate to the Art Gallery of NSW they did so on the condition that their intentions not be publicised until after their deaths.

Small died in 2012, followed by Brownlow in 2021, with their friend and neighbour, Joy Wennerbom, subsequently working with Brownlow and Small’s executor and the gallery to find a work that would speak to their love of architecture, landscape design and minimalist Asian art.

They settled on a mirror polished metal and rock sculpture commissioned from Korean artist Lee Ufan, craned in last week to sit in the garden between the sandstone Walter Liberty Vernon building and the new contemporary art campus.

Joy Wennerbom with the Lee Urfan installation in its new home between the old and new art gallery buildin

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