Locust Jones at work, Hill End animation workshop, January 2021. Photo: Joel Tonks.
Data has shown that during the past two years of the pandemic, there has been a significant uptake in animation. It is not surprising to see creatives moving across the porous art silos to the medium, from what would have been a more traditional divide between fine art and creative industries.
But up-skilling is not about throwing what you know out the door. It is about adapting, amplifying and finding a broader context for what you do.
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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