Privately-funded program threatened by public funding cuts

Copyright Agency money funds residencies in regional Australia but the program depends on public money now threatened by the Australian Council cuts.
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Detail of Pierre Huyghe, A Journey That Wasn’t, 2005, super 16mm and HD video; Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

Over the past ​four years artists and curators have received Artist or Curator Residency (ACR) grants from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.  Regional and remote communities have been the beneficiaries of more than $300,000 that has brought international and metropolitan artists and curators to places like Cootamundra and Broken Hill.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina