by Alan Todd | Jun 28, 2021 | Art, Artist, Opinion
Questions surrounding the funding of the Arts in Australia continue to circulate with no mention of supporting the arts on a federal level in the recent budget and after the recent South Australian budget, not a cent allocated there either. Queenslanders and...
by Alan Todd | Jun 20, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) in Australia, in a message to members, said that the proposed revisions to the National Arts curriculum means ‘a teacher could go an entire year without referring to a single living Australian artist’ and that...
by Alan Todd | Jun 14, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
It would seem that Banksy shot himself in the foot in stating that ‘copyright Is for losers’. The European Union Intellectual Property Office also cited his anonymity as a factor in not being able to control the use and distribution of his work. If your work is...
by Alan Todd | Jun 7, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Censorship has always been associated with totalitarian regimes and dictators intent on having control of the message. It goes hand in hand with propaganda. What such regimes assume is a belief in the power of words and image to enact or foment change. Fear is...
by Alan Todd | Jun 4, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Collaboration at any time is a matter or trust and mutual understanding. Committees, musicians and any manner of team and familial groups all manage it more or less successfully. For artists though it is a very different matter. Artists traditionally work alone. When...
