When Travis Tiddy and friends first established Tasmania’s biennial West Coast festival The Unconformity in the old copper mining town of Queenstown, they were all very new to the festival world.
‘None of us had one shred of experience in putting together an arts festival, though a few of us were creatively minded, and we started the journey from that very naïve and probably intuitive basis,’ Tiddy, The Unconformity’s Artistic Director, explains.