Leading or following? Social engagement and mass participation in the...
A feature length article on visual arts bids competing for 2012 Cultural Olympiad funding. Published in artartart issue 7 December 2009. Download article here leadingorfollowingfinal2 The post Leading...
View ArticleIn the Big Society, not all art is equal 14 July 2011
Published in The Guardian The arts have always been required to justify their access to government funding by performing a civic duty. Even while New Labour presided over a golden era in arts funding,...
View ArticleState of the Arts Conference @ The Lowry 14th Feb 2012
I’m psyched to be contributing to a ‘live blog‘ that will document (and hopefully critique) this year’s State of the Arts Conference. For anyone who doesn’t know, SOTA is Arts Council England’s annual...
View ArticleSubmission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into arts funding
I am writing to outline why I am deeply concerned by the decisions made about Federal arts funding in the 2015 Budget, especially the proposed introduction of The National Program for Excellence in the...
View ArticleAesthetic vs Didactic: Curating mental health and trying to change the world
Recently I’ve been celebrating the conclusion of my first year as a PhD candidate (where the hell did that time go?). This first year I have been propelled forwards at a rate of knots by the exhibition...
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