First Catalyst recipients: clues to what Ministry will fund

The first three Catalyst recipients have been fast-tracked, and have a strong focus on international engagement.
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Perth independent theatre company The Last Great Hunt, the Hush Music Foundation – which commissions and releases recordings of contemporary classical music designed to induce a state of calm in listeners, especially hospitalised infants – and Brisbane-based Aboriginal art dealer Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, were this morning announced as the first three recipients of funding through the Ministry of the Arts’ contentious $12 million Catalyst fund.

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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