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Writing and Publishing
Vernon Ah Kee’s portrait of Lex Wotton (2013) in NAS exhibition “Not an animal or plant”, as part of Sydney Festival; Courtesy the artist
This year the 41 year-old Sydney Festival has its first ever Indigenous Artistic Director at its helm. It has been a long time coming but the timing offers a curious alignment, coinciding with the 50th anniversay of the 1967 Australian Referendum that recognised Aboriginal Australians in our census, and empowered the Federal Parliament to legislate specifically for the benefit of Indigenous people.
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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