Visual Arts

Hard data in the toughest market shows value of diversity
Statistics bear out the value of sentiment as the emotive power of diversity for the sector turns out to match…

Glendyn Ivin's Hotel Quarantine: a strange sense of freedom
We asked the prolific Australian director and photographer about his two weeks alone in a room with a camera, his…

Jennifer Collins: ringside in the arena of ABC change
Beneath a decorously savage surface, the ABC has relentlessly turned vague cliches into solid restructures. What does this look like…

Australian Directors' Guild Awards 2020: More than half the winners are women
Announced in a virtual ceremony, the director's awards celebrated achievements of diverse newcomers and established talent in a year of…

Children's sector confronts government, politely
The children's television sector looks like the biggest loser out of the current rebuild of the sector, and producers are…

Screen budget 2020 - no relief for ABC, SBS and agencies
Similar amounts of cash to run the agencies while screen makers continue to agonise over the tax changes.

The government's announcements: Screenhub reflects
"This too shall pass.' In a week of convulsive re-invention, we remember the basics.

Shit. Fan. Whack. Feds belt sector leaving owners triumphant
The Federal government has just shafted the sector, paid off the commercial broadcasters and offered a small box of bandaids.

Make it Australian campaign relaunches, refuses to accept defeat
Advice from the Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman: Protect Australian voices, think small business and level playing fields.

SPA shocks sector by actually moving Screen Forever to February
Screen Producers Australia, supported by the government of Queensland, is gearing up for a conference with real people next February.