Participants at the National Experimental Arts Forum Photo: Dan Grant
If you had to name Australia’s great cultural leaders, who would you nominate? The directors of flagship museums or festivals, big-name artists, the powerful philanthropists who sit on the boards of major arts organisations?
Recent funding and policy upheavals in the sector suggest we need radical new visions of what cultural leadership is, and how it should be nurtured. It’s time to pay attention to a new generation of practitioners who embrace a more collaborative and non-hierarchical approach.