Opinion

THE IVORY TOWER, THE OPTIMIST AND THE FAILURE OF ARTS EDUCATION

So, while curriculum writers and critics argue about how many Australian artists might be mentioned in classrooms, their endeavours will fall on deaf ears unless the visual arts are prioritised and not left to chance and competing curriculum demands of what becomes increasingly irrelevant in people’s lives.

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COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY and a LEAP OF FAITH

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...

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ON GENDER, COLOUR AND LEFTHANDEDNESS

This affirmation, or conversely, this idea of rejection permeates the art landscape. There are winners and losers, by far the greater majority destined to be life-long losers by this measure. A level playing field? Some would suggest not.

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