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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

This week’s arts sector appointments include a new CEO at Adelaide Fringe.

18 May 2026 15:21

Richard Watts

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This week, Adelaide Fringe recruits a Canadian cultural leader as its new CEO, an executive director joins All the Queen’s Men, and two professional musicians join the board of Liquid Architecture.

Following a global search, Adelaide Fringe has appointed Canadian arts and culture leader Marc Carnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Carnes commences in his new role at Australia’s biggest arts festival on 1 July.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts