There are countless independent artists around the country who are working hard developing their new projects, and none of them will be surprised to hear that it has never been more expensive to make art in Australia than it is right now.
As independent performing arts director and producer Sally Richardson (now Executive Producer at Ten Days on the Island in Tasmania) told ArtsHub in 2021, a government grant that she received at the time to help her present the play Savage Grace, to coincide with her independent arts company’s20th anniversary, ‘was pretty much the same amount’ that she received 20 years prior, when her company first staged that same work.
