3 Seeds by Afeif Ismail, an independent work now playing at The Blue Room Theatre. Photo: Ashley de Prazer
The Minister for the Arts gave an extensive interview to The Australian, in which he emphasised the value of major arts companies and his preferences for arts companies catering to ‘great audiences’ over individual artists.
‘Frankly I’m more interested in funding arts companies that cater to the great audiences that want to see quality drama, or music or dance, than I am in subsidising individual artists responsible only to themselves,’ he was quoted as saying in an interview on 13 June for the article, A voice for the audience not just artists, which appeared in The Weekend Australian on 21 June.
