Jo Pickup

ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Jo Pickup's Latest Articles

A large mass of circus performers forming an amorphous pyramid shape with their bodies on stage against a black background. The lone performer at the top of the human pyramid is balancing in a one handed handstand.
Features

It’s time to rethink how we fund international touring – here’s why

Companies are facing cost barriers to touring work overseas. Could one of our most energetic Artistic Directors hold keys to…

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke: a middle aged white man with grey hair wearing a suit standing spotlight against a dark background. In this article, Burke discusses arts policy and Revive.
Opinions & Analysis

What Arts Minister’s press briefing reveals about policy evaluation

Digging in to Federal Arts Minister’s recent media briefing points to some of his policy evaluation preferences.

Corporate arts partnership dilemmas: a close up of someone's hand holding a gold pen over a desk about to sign a contract.
Features

Leaked CEO email reveals hazards of arts leaders in corporate partnership dilemmas

A sector CEO’s attempt to reassure staff amid corporate partnership-related backlash has sparked questions around best practice in these situations.

AGNSW staff protest: installation view of an AGNSW exhibition featuring a shiny metal sculpture in the foreground and Aboriginal art (paintings) in the background.
News

Second AGNSW staff protest demands answers from Parliament on job cuts rationale

Latest AGNSW staff protest raises questions around NSW government's directive for the gallery to benchmark its staffing structure against the…

Miriam Stannage: an old looking coloured photograph of a woman at a kitchen holding a printed work on paper she has created.
Features

Defying patriarchal structures: Why an Australian artist disguised her name

An unconventional portrait by a female Australian artist has reignited conversation around gender politics in the art world.

arts students: A photo of two young female university students walking while carrying their books in an open walkway on a university campus.
News

Australian arts students unable to get US visas for study exchange

Four Bachelor of Arts (Dance) students at WAAPA have had to cancel their U.S. study exchange plans due to the…

New words for a new world. Image: Yura Timoshenko on Unsplash.
Analysis

Skibidi, work-spouse, mouse-jiggler: what Cambridge Dictionary's new words tell us

Cambridge Dictionary has added 6,000 new words – but what do they tell us about cultural changes?

Exploitative, sexualised adult games content has long been an issue in the gaming sector. Image: Cash Macanaya/ Unsplash.
Analysis

'Harmful' adult games: should credit card companies decide what we play?

Criticism has erupted around corporations' moves to control morally contested adult games content.

Regional Arts WA Minderoo Foundation: a portrait style photograph of four people: left to right: person 1 is female in her fifties with dark long hair, person 2 is male in his forties with short dark hair, person 3 is a female in her sixties with short white hair and classes, person 4 is female in her forties with long light brown hair.
News

Regional Arts WA announces new $3.3M philanthropic partnership

Regional Arts WA has announced a milestone funding commitment from the WA-based philanthropic Minderoo Foundation.

Olivia Ansell: a portrait photograph of a smiling white woman in her forties with long light brown hair with her arms crossed in front of her, wearing a black short sleeved top standing in a light-filled white-walled room next to a window with light coming in through the window. Toronto
Features

Ex-Sydney Festival Director delivers first program in new Toronto festival role

Australian arts leader Olivia Ansell sends a postcard from Canada after her first months in new festival role.

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