For Arts Hub readers who have been loyal members of the website for the past six years, the story of how ex-ABC Radio producer Fiona Boyd and ex-Bendigo Arts Centre Director David Eedle, saw an opportunity to provide Australia’s creative sectors a common space online, is a popular one. One of the company’s earliest memories was of Boyd and Eedle working from home with two young children under four – one bouncing on top of the photocopier as they worked into the night sending out Arts Hub bulletins.
What was different however about the Boyd-Eedle model, particularly for the Australian arts scene, was that theirs was and has always been a business brief. Arts Hub was created in the belief that it would be a financial success despite existing in what is notoriously, and perhaps inaccurately perceived as, a non-fiscally rich sector.
