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First Catalyst recipients: clues to what Ministry will fund

The first three Catalyst recipients have been fast-tracked, and have a strong focus on international engagement.

2 Feb 2016

Richard Watts

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Perth independent theatre company The Last Great Hunt, the Hush Music Foundation – which commissions and releases recordings of contemporary classical music designed to induce a state of calm in listeners, especially hospitalised infants – and Brisbane-based Aboriginal art dealer Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, were this morning announced as the first three recipients of funding through the Ministry of the Arts’ contentious $12 million Catalyst fund.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts