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 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

Richard Watts's Latest Articles

Atong Atem, ‘Three Women’, 2019, Ilford smooth pearl print. Atem is one of 16 artists exhibited in the city of Greater Dandenong’s HOME 25 exhibition this year.
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Home is where the art lives – on the streets as well as on gallery walls

Exhibition curator Dr Miriam La Rosa discusses the City of Greater Dandenong’s major exhibition, HOME 2025, a celebration of Dandenong’s…

A photograph of a woman running, tajen from a low angle, with the focus being on her shoes and legs.
News

On the move: Latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of appointments and departures in the Australian arts sector.

Alison Neville, Production Manager, Spiegeltents International; Director, Spiegeltents Australia, and Head of Operations and Production at The Garden of Unearthly Delights. The black and white photo shows Neville wearing a greay t-shirt, and looking off to the right while smiling. She is a fair-skinned female-presenting person with short dark hair and wearing a simple silver necklace and a watch on her left wrist. The digitially altered photo has a blue background, with white text saying 'so you want my arts job?' superimposed over it to Neville's right.
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So you want my arts job: Alison Neville, Director, Spiegeltents Australia

Alison Neville is Production Manager, Spiegeltent International; Director, Spiegeltents Australia, and Head of Operations and Production at The Garden of…

A close-up photo of an electric guitar played by a person wearing a white T-shirt.
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Peak bodies welcome re-elected Albanese Government and call for greater commitment to live music and visual arts sectors

NAVA and 20 contemporary music organisations have welcomed Labor’s re-election and are collectively calling for stronger focus by the new…

Timothy Jones outside the Seymour Centre.
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Timothy Jones: What I’ve learned after 16 years at the Seymour Centre

Tim Jones reflects on the highlights and challenges of his 16 years at Seymour, and shares his firmly held beliefs…

ArtsHub's On the move column is a weekly summary of Australian arts sector appointments. The photo depicts two hummingbirds in flight, wings blurred as they flap rapidly.

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of appointments and departures in the Australian arts sector.

South Melbourne Town Hall in happier days. Formerly the home of ANAM, the building has been closed since 2020. The photo shows a brightly lit Victoria-era edifice at dusk, including its dominant central clock tower.

Labor and Greens commit to supporting ANAM redevelopment

$12.5 million has been promised to help complete structural building works at South Melbourne Town Hall, ANAM’s former home.

A group of people jogging on a running track; they are grouped in an arrow-head like formation, running towards the left of the photo. The image is taken from above, and shows their shadow stretched out beside them on the running track.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments and departures from around the country.

MICF 2025 award winners group photo; Garry Starr (aka clown Damien Warren-Smith) reclines at the front.

Garry Starr wins Most Outstanding Show award at Melbourne International Comedy Festival

A one-man clown show about Penguin Classics has won MICF 2025's Most Outstanding Show award; a range of other comedians…

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Illuminate Adelaide reveals centrepiece work Night Visions in first 2025 program tease

A sensory journey through Adelaide Botanic Garden created almost entirely by Australian artists will be the centrepiece of Illuminate Adelaide…

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