Gina Fairley
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Regional excellence won’t take second place to a pandemic
Regional art doesn’t exist; rather art practice that happens in other places does. It is about excellence and diversity, and…
We need to talk about colonialism and our museums
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Must Rhodes fall? In her book The Whole Picture, Alice Proctor…
ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
New podcast funding, Deadly Fringe is back, $35M bequest for QAGOMA, Orange Gallery redevelopment, Pinchgut turns to film, Children's Book…
‘We're tradies too!’ Melbourne's photography industry demands to return to work
The Commercial Photography Industry has petitioned the VIC Government under the placard ‘We are tradies too’, in a desperate plea…
Tarnanthi turns to the stories of women to lead us out of crisis
Working with 87 artists during the pandemic and remote lockdowns, Tarnanthi continues to be innovative, and in a first, throws…
ArtsHub speaks with the inaugural Bankstown Biennale Curators
The 2020 Bankstown Biennale is more than a COVID project. It's an artist-led rethinking of Western Sydney, and the value…
Visual Arts Review: A Promise – Khaled Sabsabi, AGNSW
Sabsabi has the capacity to provoke deep questioning of our own racial, religious and political positioning without ostracising the viewer…
Why the NGV Triennial is the exhibition we need now
Despite Melbourne still in lockdown, the NGV is set to launch its second Triennial in December with over $10M in…
Visual Art Review: Lindy Lee – Moon in a Dew Drop, MCA
At a time when our world reels from climate change, protests and demonstrations over racism, and a pandemic that leaves…
Support for workers...but not arts workers: Your thoughts on the Budget
This week's Budget 2020-21 was handed down with not a single mention of the arts, culture or creative industries. This…