Until Creative Australia did a triple backflip with nosedive, and reinstated Khaled Sabsabi as our representative at the next Venice Biennale, the biggest story of the week concerned the savage cuts the NSW government has inflicted on regional galleries.
I may be hallucinating, or perhaps my memory is flawed, but in the olden days, when there was a thing called the Australia Council, it had a visual art board, a literature board, a theatre board, a dance board, and quite possibly a bread board, I'm pretty sure that everyone who managed to get a grant was listed for all to see and envy, congratulate, sneer at, and so forth. So what's this "privacy" thing that prevents us from knowing who gets what and why? It's wrong. Mind you, so is the nonsensical outfit that's replaced the OzCo.
Thank you John. Bit more of a challenge here in Armidale. NERAM is the only regional gallery (not incl BAM) that is not part of a council. We get good funding from council but not the full package. cheers Bob Clarke
Terrible shame about the funding for regional galleries. They were a light in the darkness. I still remember a wonderful Elisabeth Cummings retrospective we stumbled upon in Nowra. And seeing a scary, impressive NZ Haka in Campbelltown at the gallery there.
I may be hallucinating, or perhaps my memory is flawed, but in the olden days, when there was a thing called the Australia Council, it had a visual art board, a literature board, a theatre board, a dance board, and quite possibly a bread board, I'm pretty sure that everyone who managed to get a grant was listed for all to see and envy, congratulate, sneer at, and so forth. So what's this "privacy" thing that prevents us from knowing who gets what and why? It's wrong. Mind you, so is the nonsensical outfit that's replaced the OzCo.
Thank you John. Bit more of a challenge here in Armidale. NERAM is the only regional gallery (not incl BAM) that is not part of a council. We get good funding from council but not the full package. cheers Bob Clarke
Great article
Terrible shame about the funding for regional galleries. They were a light in the darkness. I still remember a wonderful Elisabeth Cummings retrospective we stumbled upon in Nowra. And seeing a scary, impressive NZ Haka in Campbelltown at the gallery there.