Gina Fairley
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How strong partnerships made a regional festival a national event
‘We don’t feel disadvantaged being in the regions. In fact, we see this as an opportunity,' says former Four Winds…
How to make ideas happen
Three creative entrepreneurs – the founders of Parlour Gigs, Underground Cinema and Envato – share how they got started; how…
Study shows women perform 50% lower at art auctions
Forty years of data reveal a significant price gap between the results achieved for male and female artists across global…
International art project raises the bar on Instagram
52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS is a year-long art project that uses Instagram to talk about current political and social issues,…
Who’d leave a television career to join a library?
They used to be quiet spaces; now they are the quiet achievers. We can all learn from libraries' successes in…
Incubating ideas needs more than a hip share office
Tired of big budget, big tech talk when it comes to innovation? Then start with old fashioned talking: it's proving…
New podcast challenges cultural whitewashing
The Culture Cycle is a new series that asks whether Australia’s arts and cultural sector looks like Australia.
Spray gun philosophy: Katharina Grosse on painting
A new installation at Carriageworks is the next chapter in Grosse’s somewhat unorthodox journey with painting. What drives her and…
The Big List: the visual arts in 2017
2017 was big: big empathy, big blockbusters, big harassment, big lobbying and big shifts in the visual arts ecology as…
The most popular stories of 2017
We look back over the most-read stories of the year and ask what they say about the zeitgeist across the…