Should a commercial gallery receive Catalyst funding?
Half a million is a big piece of the $12 million pie to be awarded to a commercial gallery within a climate of reduced government funding. But is that the whole story?
In short they were: Perth independent theatre company The Last Great Hunt to tour a play about dementia ($14,840), the music-therapy organisation Hush Music Foundation (Victoria $50,000), and Brisbane-based Aboriginal art dealer Suzanne O’Connell Gallery and Associates ($485,450).
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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