Marie Falcinella is Director and Principal Consultant of Bridge Studio, which she established in 2021 in response to a need for better connections, both within and outside of the sector. She has fifteen years’ experience in the Visual Arts as an organisation leader, project manager, curator and administrator.
Marie was the Chief Executive Officer of Ananguku Arts and Cultural Aboriginal Corporation (Ku Arts), the South Australian peak body for Aboriginal artists and art centres, from 2017-2020. Her broad sector experience includes commercial fine art galleries in Adelaide and Melbourne as well as working with Aboriginal owned and governed art centres across Arnhem Land, Top End and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, delivering community led projects and business development and governance support. Marie is third generation Italian-Australian and lives on Peramangk Country in the Adelaide Hills.
With the commitment by the new federal government to renew and reinstate the Creative Australia National cultural policy by the end of 2022, there is a perfect opportunity to complete the Arts Front 2030 work, and promote the ideas and visions for the future that people have contributed over the last five years.
Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.