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

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 is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts