On the move: latest art sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings across the country.
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The Board of Gasworks Arts Inc this morning (Tuesday 10 June) announced the appointment of Sam Strong as the Creative Director and CEO of Gasworks Arts Park, commencing June 2025.

Strong’s previous positions include serving as the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre and prior to that as the Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company (where he programmed seven consecutive seasons of subscriber growth and set all-time box office records for individual shows and annual seasons across the two companies). Most recently he was the Executive Director of Creative Industries at Creative Victoria, where he was responsible for all investment in Victoria’s non-government arts and cultural sector.

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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