Image: Mullum Circus Festival (via Facebook)
While the critical masses of artists living and working in our major cities, coupled with the programming nous of our leading festival directors and their teams, results in often remarkable work, you don’t have to visit a capital city to have a fantastic arts experience. Across Australia, artists gather, dream, inspire and create – often in areas where you might not necessarily expect to find art happening en masse, such as in former steel cities and the country’s desert heart.