In addition to its many theatres, museums and galleries, Adelaide’s city centre is home to dozens of smaller cultural spaces in which artist and creatives make, share and sell their work.
I was commissioned by City of Adelaide to produce The Art of Connection, a research and advocacy paper about the importance of inner city artist spaces.
Continue reading “The art of connection”Australia’s arts boards are broken. The very ground on which our arts organisations and institutions are built is unpredictable, unsteady and (increasingly) unsafe.
Continue reading “The art of governance”In August, Minister Paul Fletcher announced a parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions.
Continue reading “A Parliamentary inquiry”COVID-19 is the single biggest disruption to Australia’s cultural life in generations. But none of the Australian Government’s stimulus commitments thus far have addressed the arts, cultural or creative industries. Continue reading “Call for urgent arts industry stimulus”
Members of South Australia’s creative industries are being encouraged to have their say on the State’s new Creative Industries Sector Strategy: a 10 year plan to support the growth of the creative industries in South Australia. Continue reading “Growth State: a (draft) response”
There are a number of different ways of thinking and talking about disability. This document provides some historical context and resources around some of the more commonly used disability models and language. Continue reading “RESOURCE: Disability models and language”
The words we use to describe ourselves, our work and our communities can be personal, political, and can change over time. The arts sector is often at the forefront of this change. Continue reading “RESOURCE: Best practice arts language”
Kate Larsen and Emma Bennison discuss Arts Access Australia’s transition to disability leadership in Taking the Lead (2012). Continue reading “Taking the lead”
In 2019, my partner and I bought a house in Adelaide, our first small piece of ground. But with the excitement, paperwork, moving boxes and money story came a serving of white colonial guilt and responsibility that we hadn’t yet realised for our previous apartment in the sky. Continue reading “On rates and reparations: a personal approach”
Artists, arts workers and audience members are being encouraged to have their say on the arts in SA. Continue reading “The new #SAArtsPlan: a (draft) response”
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