I'm the Communications Officer at Country Arts WA, a not-for-profit which serves as the peak body for arts in regional Western Australia. I manage the marketing and communications for the organisation's youth funding program and multiple statewide regional arts tours. I also coordinate a professional development program in marketing for regional artsworkers.
Outside of that, I'm a writer and broadcaster, currently co-producing a podcast funded by the Wheeler Centre exploring the role of bushfires in the Australian cultural experience.
I'm interested in the cultural and generational shift as millennials move into leadership positions within the Autralian arts organisations and our broader arts diaspora, and the growing number of women, queer people, people of colour and gender diverse people occupying those positions. I'm interested in the way this generation of which I'm a part has grown up on the internet in a time of incredible turbulence around the future of work, housing and sustainability, and how our digital, cultural and social literacy will play out in the arts sector in the coming years.
I'm also interested in the decay of the canon - the way our arts experiences in every form are less unified because we're all able to pursue so many disparate niches, and what affect that has on social cohesion, how we form communities, and how we form consensus, especially as arts criticism is displaced.
Beyond that: community radio and the arts, eroding government funding, the arts vs sports debate (especially in regional Australia) and much more.
Organisation Colleagues
Arts Front Under 30 Symposium – September 2018, Newcastle