Newspapers, essays, articles, papers and quotes on A4 paper
A collection of articles, essays, papers and quotes (mediums of academic research) question cuts to cultural production and arts education by governments and institutions.
Economic rationalism through arts funding cuts, merges, cutbacks and restructures, have consequences that may go unaccounted for. The unintended costs that emerge may threaten the development of a cultivated and innovative nation.
Exhibited in the Hungry for Arts Festival in 2016, City of Ryde, curated by Cassandra Hard Lawrie and at Fisher Library, University of Sydney as part of the Sydney Art Crawl in 2017, curated by Wilson Yeung, Wendy Fang and Yves Lee.
Thank you to Bernadette Smith, for use of the photograph depicting her shopping trolley artwork in the foreground of A Cultural Deficit, at Fisher Library, part of her installation and performance, Shopping for Human Rights.
A Cultural Deficit, installed at See Street Gallery as part of the Hungry for Art Festival, City of Ryde 2016.