Grace Ellen Macpherson
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'Original' gig workers left behind by Labor’s IR Bill
Creative Workplaces was launched with the promise to raise workplace standards for arts workers, but is it able to deliver?
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The other work
Independent artists often do other work alongside their art making, but how does it sit within their arts practice as…
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Can we separate art from the artist?
When genius artists act in less than genius ways we are forced to confront what "genius" means. Some contemporary Australian…
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When passion causes more harm than good
How rethinking passion can help arts workers address structural issues and reshape the nature of arts work for the better.