Art Guide Australia: Field Notes. A Grassroots Approach to Public Art

These are my favourite kinds of stories to tell. Artists and creatives re-thinking ideas of community, public space, ways of doing. Artists who are equal parts curious, ambitious and gentle. Artists who believe that art and culture and creativity can be tools for wellbeing, community building and lasting change.

I loved the expansive conversations I had with Heidi and Hugo in the writing of this piece and I’m really grateful to Art Guide Australia for commissioning it. You can read it online here. In many ways it feels like a book-end to the piece I wrote for their Jan-Feb issue on the impact of the housing crisis on artists and creatives, so I appreciate that long lens take on an issue too.

And you can read more about MAPA and the Open Field Agency here, too.

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I live and work on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Bidjigal people and acknowledge their unbroken connection to this Country. I pay my deepest respects to their Elders, past and present, because this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.