David Walsh pulls the plug on summer festival Mona Foma

The festival’s most recent edition was ‘a poorly attended artistic triumph,’ according to Mona owner and founder David Walsh.

5 Apr 2024 16:20

Richard Watts

A luminous inflatable statue of a contemplative male figures floats on a river at sunset. The sunset is reflected in the water and dark trees line the banks.

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‘Man’, 2019 by Parer Studio. Mona Foma 2019. Photo: MONA/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and MONA Museum of Old and New Art

The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) has announced the end of its summer festival, Mona Foma, after 16 years.

Mona Foma – Mona’s Festival of Music and Art – was first held in 2009, before Mona itself had even opened.

The museum subsequently opened to the world in January 2011.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts