Jo Pickup

ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Jo Pickup's Latest Articles

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Features

Is the secret of arts marketing really to 'know thyself'?

A recent international study into arts marketing practices casts light on how an organisation’s core values play a part in…

A silhouette of a person setting up a stage in a darkened space with rigging and a lit-up screen projection behind them.
News

Alarming cost increases for arts organisations not in line with funding levels

How many more arts organisations will have to cancel or reduce their programming under the weight of rising costs?

An elderly white female artist wearing bold red rimmed glasses in her ceramics studio.
Features

How art trails are building pipelines of new gallery audiences

Artists’ open house art trails are often very popular events in their own right. But they are also a big…

A bare-chested male ballet dancer dressed in a turban and long pants, photographed in mid air performing a leaping side split move.
Features

Why are we still watching La Bayadère?

Will this popular ballet join the likes of 'Miss Saigon' and 'Turandot' as a work deemed too culturally insensitive for…

a artwork on paper that shows 13 multicolored textile shapes in the form of women's lips with stitching over them and drizzles of red earth over the whole composition.
Features

Artist helping Venice Biennale move beyond its history

This year’s Venice Biennale calls for greater diversity and change, and one of its exhibiting artists is part of that…

Portraits: a photographic portrait of two sisters pictured while looking into the camera while one has her arm around the other, set against a white background.
Features

Portraits of the future cast light on 'truths' of today

Is the prevalence of AI shifting our perceptions of who we really are? A new exhibition speculates on these questions…

philanthropy: a woman hugging another woman in front a small audience at an awards ceremony.
Features

New philanthropy models bringing in much needed funding

Which new philanthropic arts initiatives are making high-value contributions to independent arts projects?

arts managers, best workers: A young white woman smiling while "high fiving" a group of three other people.
Features

4 things arts managers are noticing in their best workers right now

ArtsHub surveyed a range of arts managers to find out what their top workers are bringing to the table right…

a montage of sepia toned 18th and 19th century illustrated portraits of 18th and 19th century Australian convicts and First Nations people.
Features

Major new museum show unshackles convict stories from myth

The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead,…

Women's bodies in art: a photograph of a naked woman with her back to the camera surrounding by many paper cut out illustrations of eyes and carboard assemblages.
Features

Artists showing women’s bodies as (still) a battleground

In the week of International Women's Day, ArtsHub speaks to two artists whose recent work explores the politics of women’s…

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