Exit interview: Jim Cathcart, Director Fremantle Arts Centre
With 15 years in the job, ArtsHub spoke with Jim Cathcart on shaping an organisation’s unique character, finding financial sustainability, and knowing when to go.
Jim Cathcart, Director Fremantle Arts Centre, taken at 2002 Perth Festival. Image supplied.
Jim Cathcart didn’t mince words. He told ArtsHub: ‘Fremantle Arts Centre is in really good shape; I have no fears for the future of the organisation – it’s looking really bright.’
In an environment where we have become accustomed to a ‘gloom and doom’ rhetoric, charting the past 15-years of Cathcart’s directorship of Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC), and what the next chapter may present in his wake, was inspirational.
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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