The late Jack Lynn—an old friend and collaborator—would sometimes say that to get ahead in the art world it is important not to be too independent or too adventurous or too avant-garde or too unpredictable. It also helps, he said, to pick a hero like, say, Ned Kelly. You may break some of these rules, but if you break all of them, dealers don’t know what to do with you. It is even harder if you are a woman. I don’t know to what extent Jack was ironically pondering his own artistic trajectory, but he could easily have been thinking…