Embracing failure is one of the hardest challenges we face as professionals. How we communicate about and use those failures is a lesson all arts organisations need to learn.
In a climate where we are encouraged to innovate as organisations, and in which failure is frowned upon – especially from a funding perspective – it is difficult to find the balance.
At this week’s Communicating the Arts conference in Sydney, two arts leaders offered an inspiring reality check that imbued the audience with confidence – a sign, if you like, that we can find confidence in our failures.
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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