Emerging artists: too much too early?

Six concurrent exhibitions survey emergent art across Australia betray an imbalance in our attention on younger artists.

17 Mar 2016 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Installation view of Emma Coulter’s award winning work at Linden New Art; courtesy the artist

Anyone surveying the landscape of exhibitions this month could be lead to believe that we have an obsession with youth.

It reads a little like a cocktail list: Look Out, Start Up, New, Now, Hatched and Redlands all exhibition that celebrate artists emerging onto an art scene.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina