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Visual Arts
Artwork Danny First; Photo Artshub
With four fairs staged across Sydney this weekend, the capacity of the sector to differentiate and of the collecting base to sustain the mushrooming is under the microscope.
Tim Etchells, Director of Art Fairs Australia said the Sydney boom comes in the context of ‘something like 180 international art fairs’ including the Jakarta art fair last week, and a new Bund art fair in Shanghai, both of which impacted the drop in the number of Asian galleries heading down to Sydney this week.
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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