• Sarah Macaulay, owner of Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (located at 293 East 2nd Avenue), and her pup, Lucy.

  • Details of works by Emily Hill, recently featured at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art.

  • Lucy nestled calmly into place on Sarah Macaulay’s lap. “She’s with me wherever I go,” Macaulay says.

  • A moveable notice is tacked on the gallery’s front door, in case of an occasional jaunt outside.

  • Sarah Macaulay and her pup Lucy view a piece from artist Emily Hill’s “Air Spill” series.

  • Chairs in the Macaulay & Co. Fine Art meeting room for visits with artists and collectors.

  • Inspirational books stacked behind Sarah Macaulay’s desk. She plans to build a bookshelf for them soon.

  • The front entrance to Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, located at 293 East 2nd Avenue in the Flats burgeoning art district.

Sarah Macaulay

Artistic freedom.

For Sarah Macaulay of Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, owning a gallery is all about freedom. After years spent modeling with busy schedules overseas, the Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five regimes didn’t work for her. Fortunately, Macaulay gained skills through modeling that prepared her for the art world: travelling, working intense, compact hours, and dealing with all sorts of people, which comes in handy when navigating the tough art business. In order to succeed, she advises, “you have to feel a deep confidence that everything’s going to be alright.”

With a vested interest in the arts, it was only natural for Macaulay to end up where she is. After co-running Gastown’s Blanket Contemporary Art Gallery from 2005 to 2012, she branched off and opened Macaulay & Co. Fine Art in 2012 in Vancouver’s new contemporary art district, the Flats.

Photos by Angela Fama.

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Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, 293 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5T 1B8, 604-764-6706

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April 10, 2014