Image: © Alex Craig and Ernabella Arts
Whether it be securing work after graduation or seeking a career change, the arts can be a competitive industry to get your foot in the door. Looking outside the city centres and working in a remote arts centre is a rich and rewarding career choice for professionals from a visual arts, art management or Indigenous studies background.
On a recent tour to Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands) in South Australia, we met some of the young, dynamic women working as art centre managers and art workers.
Skye O’Meara has been the art centre manager at Tjala Arts in Amata for over eight years, which is a surprise even to her. ‘I thought it would be something I would do for 12 months and then come back to Sydney and get into gallery work.’
