28 July 2014
Australian artists are HOT in Glasgow
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Australia Council for the Arts
In the lead up to this month’s Commonwealth Games and as part of Scotland’s year long Culture 2014 program, Glasgow experimental art space Tramway presented HOT, a festival of Australian contemporary dance and performance. (View on this site)

4 July 2014
Fellows Focus – Richard Bell
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Australia Council for the Arts
‘The name was quite appropriate,’ Bell says, reflecting on the MUMA exhibition Lessons in Etiquette and Manners, which presented a range of Bell’s paintings, video works and installations from throughout his career. ‘They were good lessons in etiquette and manners for the Australian people, I reckon; particularly in the way Australian people treat Aboriginal people. ‘ Adding in his understated way, ‘You know, they could use a little bit of guidance in that area.’ (View on this site)

4 June 2014
Fellows Focus – Tega Brain
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Australia Council for the Arts
Brain is effusive and engaging despite being holed up in her New York studio against the bitter winter cold. A recipient of a two-year Creative Australia Fellowship for an Emerging Artist, Brain is about to return home after eight months in New York taking part in residencies, artist-led workshops and generally throwing herself into the cultural richness and energy of the city. (View on this site)

7 May 2014
Fellows Focus – Dave Jones
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Australia Council for the Arts
In a dark corridor directly beneath the Art Centre’s Playhouse Theatre littered with staging detritus Dave Jones shows me a luminous rat running along the edge of a wall. Suddenly it disappears to be replaced by rats with glowing yellow eyes multiplying in a plague-like swarm across the wall. (View on this site)

9 April 2014
Fellows Focus – Amanda Cole
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Australia Council for the Arts
Amanda Cole is a composer and interdisciplinary artist drawn to finding new ways of experiencing sound. In her latest projects she is translating music into colour and colour into music. (View on this site)

5 March 2014
Fellows Focus – Gideon Obarzanek
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Australia Council for the Arts
Despite having flown back from rehearsals in Sydney the day before we meet in a North Melbourne café, acclaimed dance artist and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek seems relaxed. He’s been rehearsing,L’Chaim! (‘to life’ in Hebrew and Yiddish), part of a Sydney Dance Company triple bill, Interplay premiering later this month. (View on this site)

5 February 2014
Fellows Focus – Eugene Ughetti
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Australia Council for the Arts
Percussionist Eugene Ughetti has been known to trawl $2 shops looking for objects that make interesting sounds, like mixing bowls and ping-pong balls. Over the past 10 years, he has created works with glass objects, microphones, even pasta, and he plans to investigate in upcoming projects making music with squeaky toys and the interstellar sounds picked up by radio telescopes. (View on this site)

8 January 2014
Fellows Focus – Keg de Souza
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
Interdisciplinary artist Keg de Souza is not the sort of person to shy away from a challenge. When she started building her first inflatable artwork, Gigloo/Esky back in 2008, she had no idea how to thread a sewing machine let allow how to construct a blow-up igloo. ‘That was a bit of a learning curve,’ she laughs. (View on this site)

7 November 2013
Fellows Focus – Sue Healey
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Australia Council for the Arts
‘I’m completely having this, well a mini renaissance really,’ Healey laughs of her return to dance after 15 years. ‘It’s quite hilarious but fabulous,’ she says not just because it reenergises her connection with dancers and the process of performing but also because she can still do it. (View on this site)

4 October 2013
Fellows Focus – Robin Fox
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Australia Council for the Arts
Audio-visual artist Robin Fox has an engaging candor. He’s jovial, open and fiercely intelligent; a man who thinks deeply about science, who tinkers with technology and who makes sound and light dance with one another. He also has a really great beard. (View on this site)

4 September 2013
Fellows Focus – Nicola Gunn
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
Gunn along with her creative collaborators Gwen Holmberg-Gilchrist, Pier Carthew and Michael Fikaris, who together form Sans Hotel, is in the midst of developing a new interdisciplinary work, In spite of myself, due to premiere at this year’s Melbourne Festival in October. (View on this site)

6 August 2013
Fellows Focus – Ashley Dyer
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
‘I’ve always actively sort out the education and training that I wanted,’ says Dyer. ‘I’m a bit of a control freak…One of the things I always come back to is… if I’m going to be poor doing this…then I want to be able to choose what I’m doing.’ (View on this site)

4 July 2013
Fellows Focus – Michaela Gleave
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
‘I’m just loving my life right now,’ enthuses Sydney-based visual artist Michaela Gleave. ‘It’s a bit stressful… because I’ve got so much on but I’m just getting to do the most amazing things.’ (View on this site)

7 June 2013
Fellows Focus – Cat Jones
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
In her characteristically self-depreciating way Jones describes herself as ‘just an artist’. However she can also be described as a collaborative, interdisciplinary performance maker and media artist, artistic advisor, curator, mentor and creative producer. (View on this site)

8 May 2013
Fellows Focus – Guy Ben Ary
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Australia Council for the Arts
Ben-Ary can’t help sounding both amused and amazed as he explains that currently parts of himself are growing in an incubator in Barcelona. (View on this site)

4 April 2013
Fellows Focus – Lauren Brincat
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
A ‘rising star’ of the Australian visual arts scene whose work has variously been described as wry, playful and provocative, Brincat was one of six emerging artists to receive an Australia Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Creative Australia Fellowship in May last year.

5 March 2013
Fellows Focus – Mic Gruchy
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
After more than 20 years creating integrated video and interactive projected environments for theatre, dance and opera in Australia and working across a wide range of mediums as a video artist, editor, and film and documentary maker, Mic Gruchy can now ‘officially’ call himself an established artist.

6 February 2013
Fellows Focus – Lee Serle
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
From a dancer who started out learning tap and jazz at a suburban dance studio in Bayswater, Serle has become something of an international contemporary dance wunderkind.

9 January 2013
Fellows Focus – Gaelle Mellis
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
Gaelle Mellis is one of Australia’s most highly regarded dance and theatre designers and is a passionate advocate for accessibility and diversity in the arts. (View on this site)

8 November 2012
Fellows Focus – Annabel Smith
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
West Australian author, Annabel Smith may have just launched her second novel in traditional paper format but publishing her third novel, The Ark, will be a very different sort of literary project.

4 October 2012
Fellows Focus – Matthew Prest
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
Sydney-based theatre maker and performer Matthew Prest has recently returned from an intense month in France only to throw himself into the development of a new work, Whelping Box.

8 September 2012
Fellows Focus – Antony Hamilton
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Antony Hamilton looks more tradie than ballet, braced against the cold in his beanie and black puff jacket sipping his coffee. His arms move expressively as he talks. He taps out complex syncopated rhythms on the table. He traces the brickwork with a finger as he explains the potential of video mapping and simply lifting his cup draws consideration of existential questions such as where do I begin and end.

8 August 2012
Fellows Focus – Gian Slater
Artery
Australia Council for the Arts
For someone still jetlagged after her return from six weeks in New York, the 29-year old jazz singer and composer Gian Slater is looking remarkably bubbly and fresh.

15 June 2012
‘Gamification: the only way to get attention’.
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Gamification has become quite the marketing buzzword lately, even if the concept has been around awhile. Like many made-up words though there’s a lot of confusion about what it really means.

It’s the massive uptake of smartphones and social media that has really made gamifying (yes, it’s a word) techniques emerge as a powerful tool for consumer engagement and marketing.

1 June 2012
Hashtag Msummit – talking arts marketing
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If you noticed #msummit trending across Australia on last week it was thanks to a highly engaged room full of arts marketers and creative types at the OzCo’s Marketing Summit 2012.

17 May 2012
A step closer to the National Cultural Policy?
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With the release this week of the Independent Review of the Australia Council for the Arts a new National Cultural Policy is one step nearer to release. It’s stepped through each of its requirements stoically, methodically and consultatively. The process has been slow. It’s unlikely to have lots of big dollars attached to it.

9 May 2012
Small lift for the the arts in Federal Budget 2012
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Well that was this year’s budget then, all that build up and… now what? Are you expecting a little extra in your pocket thanks to the ‘Battler’s Budget’? Is it going to change how you feel about the Gillard government? What about everyone else? Do you suppose anyone’s going to still be interested in talking about it by next week? Probably not.
Style: Feature

8 May 2012
Wherefore art thou gender-equity?
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Last week the Australia Council for the Arts released the Women in Theatre report commissioned in July last year to bring research on the issue of women in creative leadership in Australia up to date, after well over a decade of apparent neglect.

Has the good fight been lost? The representation of women in creative leadership roles in the theatre has hardly improved since anti-discrimination and affirmative action policies began 30 years ago. More depressingly there’s now evidence that in the past decade things have actually gone backwards.
Style: Feature

27 April 2012
Making money out of your rights
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Paying rightsholders for the use of their work is easier thanks to the CAL Rights Portal, and soon it will be available to visual artists too.
Style: Feature

5 April 2012
The future of freelancing
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The future freelance journalist will probably need a lot more than a spiral bound notebook and a pencil. A voracious 24-hr news cycle needs multi-skilled, multimedia trained, business savvy content producers and lots of them, but they may not want to pay them.
Style: Feature

26 March 2012
Is it too late to change careers?
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Is it too late to make the jump into a new career? If you’re asking the question you’re already probably aware that you face some big hurdles – most of which aren’t about age!
Style: Career Advice *

26 March 2012
What will happen to the arts in Queensland now?
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With the decimation of the Labor government in the Queensland elections over the weekend many people in the arts may be wondering what will happen to the sector over the next few years.
Style: News *

20 March 2012
Do you Pinterest?
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Pinterest is the fast growing phenomena on the net, a social media site that allows users to collate and share images on the web – and it has huge implications for artists.
Style: Feature

18 March 2012
West Kowloon Cultural District’s budget concerns
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Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District has been making headlines this week following a review that revealed the ambitious project is likely to face a major budget blow-out.
Style: News *

8 March 2012
Multicultural Arts Forum 2012
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Over two days next month, the Multicultural Arts Forum 2012 will bring together artists, arts workers, researchers and cultural policy decision-makers from all backgrounds to discuss the development and support of the multicultural art sector in NSW.
Style: News *

8 March 2012
Mitchell Review of Private Sector Support released
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Arts Minister Simon Crean this week released the report of the Review of Private Sector Support for the Arts, chaired by Mr Harold Mitchell AC.
Style: News *

24 February 2012
Drawn to animating?
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Are you drawn to animation? From the biggest blockbuster movies to game design to stunning hand-drawn short films the work of modern day animators is in demand, diverse and passionate.
Style: Feature

9 February 2012
Crafting Crime Fiction
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If you want to make a career of writing fiction, you might want to seriously think about a life in crime.
Style: Feature

4 February 2012
Griffith Review Surviving Edition 35
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Learning and reflecting from disaster – ”Surviving” explores tales of extraordinary battles and random brushes with fate.
Style: Feature

9 January 2012
What it takes to write a novel?
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Have you ever thought about writing a novel? Dreamt that after the bidding war was over you’d be in constant demand for writer’s festivals around the world while the cash from your international bestseller flowed in? We talked to Sophie Cunningham about some aspects of writing a novel you might need to think about.
Style: Feature

5 January 2012
Change management in the arts
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Change management is something of a business jargon buzzword but it is an important management tool for any organisation that undertakes change. And arts organisations change a lot. We look at some of the skills arts managers need to manage change effectively.
Style: Feature

22 December 2011
What sort of website do you need?
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An artist’s website is now their virtual portfolio and all across the creative industries an organization’s or professional’s website is their most meaningful business card.
Style: Feature

19 December 2011
Organisational Insight: Polyglot
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Simon Abrahams, General Manager of Polyglot Theatre likes to think of it as the little company that could. From losing half it’s core funding in 2007 the company has turned itself around and taken on the world.
Style: Feature

15 December 2011
Do you need further qualifications?
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Extra qualifications are becoming more important for everyone, and the arts sector is not immune. Just about everyone feels like one degree or diploma is not enough.
Style: Feature

15 December 2011
Charles Dickens performs A Christmas Carol
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ATHENAEUM THEATRE: When Phil Zachariah walks out on stage, he is Charles Dickens as he was in 1854, reading his A Christmas Carol to fascinated crowds hanging on his every word.
Style: Review

8 December 2011
The VCA’s sense of renewal
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There’s a very good spirit at VCA now, says Prof Su Baker. ‘There’s nothing like a sense of renewal to energise people… And, I suppose the threat of things being lost concentrates the mind.’
Style: Feature

5 December 2011
The role of the board
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There are all sorts of boards; big boards, small boards, new boards and old boards but they all hold the final responsibility for the success or otherwise of a company.
Style: Feature

2 December 2011
The forward momentum of the MSO
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‘Your orchestra’ seems to be the catch cry at the MSO, an appeal or perhaps a recognition of Melbourne’s passion for all things Melbourne. But it also reflects the substantive efforts being made to reach out and excite existing and new audiences.
Style: Feature

1 December 2011
Providing the Next Step
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The SnapHop Rotary Youth Arts Project (RYAP) is focused on providing disadvantaged young people in Melbourne inner suburbs with quality arts experiences.
Style: Feature

28 November 2011
How do you get head hunted?
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If you’re looking to move into a leadership role or between such roles it may well be an executive search company that gives you that opportunity, but how do you get them to notice you?
Style: Feature

* NB a number of artshub editorial staff write career advice and news at artsHub unattributed and only a small selection of news and careers advice I’ve written is included in these lists.