While no sector can claim business-as-usual in these unprecedented times, Australia’s commercial galleries have experienced a boom in art spending, which has prompted a rethink of existing gallery models and the role they play.
‘I don’t think many of the arts industry understand how absolutely critical and fundamental these changes are,’ Reid told ArtsHub, drawing parallels to the Industrial and technological revolutions. ’The future for the art world and the art economy, are those businesses that can undergo massive personal growth and change … the process of being part of this enormous change is to abandon everything you’ve ever understood.’
