Why We Collect: Collectors In Conversation
Kym Elphinstone with Max Germanos, Gaibrielle Germanos in conversation with 10th Edition Collector Lounge Curator Sebastian Goldspink
Each talk runs for approximately 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. A valid ticket to Sydney Contemporary 2026 is required for entry to this talk. Buy tickets online here.
About the Speakers
Kym Elphinstone is an arts advocate and advisor with more than two decades experience championing the work of contemporary artists. Kym is the founder of Australia’s leading cultural communications agency Articulate Advisory, through which she has advised on and launched hundreds of arts initiatives for public and private museums, galleries, biennales, art fairs and foundations. An avid art collector, Kym was a founding board member of Art Month Sydney, founding member of the MCA Young Ambassadors, sits on the board of Ngununggula and is the Chair of Firstdraft.
Max and Gaibrielle Germanos are avid art collectors and founders of 3:33 Art Projects. Through their curatorial platform, 3:33 Art Projects, they actively champion emerging and mid-career artists.
Sebastian Goldspink is a Sydney-based independent curator. In 2011, he created the artist run space, ALASKA Projects as a platform for exhibiting contemporary art in unused or disused spaces. Since its inception, ALASKA has showcased over 500 artists across 150 exhibitions. A proud descendant of the Burramattagal people of Western Sydney, Goldspink has curated exhibitions nationally throughout Australia and internationally in London, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Christchurch. In 2022 he curated the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art for the Art Gallery of Australia entitled Free/State. The Biennial bought together a multi-generational group of 25 Australian artists. Goldspink has held professional appointments at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Month Sydney, National Art School and Dlux Media Arts.
The 10th Edition Collector Lounge is supported Artwork insurance arranged by Aon, safely transported by Artwork Transport.
Image: Mark Maurangi Carrol, Two Stories High (West), 2025. Acquired from Nasha Gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2025
