Gina Fairley
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Uncertain future for Cockatoo Island
Will the bureaucratic 'swings and roundabouts' determining Cockatoo Island's use be a boon or a bust for the arts?
ICYMI: the week's arts news
We take a look at what was hitting the headlines this week across the arts, from festivals to funding, exhibitions…
Author care and the precarity of publicists
From burnout to harassment, we dip into the muddy territory of author care and expectations on the literary publicist.
First Nations curator redefines emerging
For Primavera’s 30th anniversary, Aboriginal curator of the event Hannah Presley talks about legacy and brave steps.
ICYMI: the week's arts news
The latest arts news, from festival updates, what's coming to our stages, and hitting the galleries this weekend.
Exhibition Review: Doug Aitken – New Era
'I see the experience of the exhibition as being authored by the viewer', says Doug Aitken, ensuring that IRL immersive…
Exhibition Review: Matisse Life & Spirit
'Matisse: Life & Spirit' delivers in doses, living up to the blockbuster tag, but moreso it taps our contemporary psyche…
Innovation and the art of collaboration
The digital space needs generalists and collaborators for innovative projects to succeed.
Immersive art is the much needed IRL fix
IMMERSE festival is on point as audiences hunger for IRL (in real life) experiences and Victorians return to embrace art…
Vale Robert MacPherson
Closing a long career, Brisbane artist Robert MacPherson leaves an incredible legacy of weaving the conceptional with the everyday.