Career Advice
Exit Interview: Alex Marsden, AMaGA
After a lifetime career on "the hill" in Canberra and leading Australia's peak organisation for museums and galleries, Alex Marsden…
So you want my arts job: Exhibition Designer
If you have a keen eye for colour, materiality and space, then being an exhibition designer might be the job…
The creative's guide to small business basics
Whatever your passion, it pays to be both a creative practitioner and a practical businessperson.
Three killer mistakes women make in promoting their work
Highly skilled and experienced people in the screen industry still feel reticent to promote themselves. Publicist, strategist and talent manager…
Top 3 tips for emerging arts managers (from the archives)
With many in the sector working in administrative roles, we’ve asked arts leaders from Darwin to Hobart and Perth to…
20 questions you've always wanted answered by a curator
To celebrate Ask A Curator Day, we posed 20 questions to 20 curators nationally, touching on topics from ethical responsibilities…
Essential skills of a great arts administrator (from the archives)
Facilitation and strategy, nurturing artists' ideas, and examining challenges at a macro and micro level simultaneously: arts administrators are the…
Exit interview: Kelly Gellatly, Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art
In an unexpected turn, Kelly Gellatly has resigned as Director of Ian Potter Museum of Art, a decision triggered by…
9 techniques for generating game changing ideas (from the archives)
From group drawing to dissident behaviour, stealing innovation to tricking the brain into being creative, Nicole Velik of The Ideas…
‘It gets harder’: Tim Winton on writing (From the Archives)
The author of Cloudstreet offers insights into the writing life and reflects on the differences between writing for the page…