Let’s clear something up, cheerfully and in public. Not everything is my business. And a surprising amount of what’s been shoved into my lap over the years was never meant to be. What is not  my business It is not my business to: Convince institutions that artists are real adults. Translate creative work into “KPIs” and “stakeholder outcomes”. Prove I’m sane before I’m allowed access to my own money. Smile politely while systems quietly chew my ankles. Treat administrative incompetence as a...

Ian Fairweather lived a life that looks extreme until you realise it was organised around one very simple priority: painting. Born in Scotland, trained formally, he fought in the First World War, was imprisoned, wandered through Asia for years, absorbed calligraphy, Buddhism, and Indigenous Australian art, and eventually settled in Australia. He stripped painting back until it was almost writing, then stripped that back again. Figures dissolved into marks. Marks became rhythm. He lived...

Sometimes I feel like I’m part of the Zeitgeist. It’s that lived experience of being in the right place at the right time, talking to the right people. Upon reflection, and over the past few weeks, it became apparent that this might always have been true. Not just for me, but for all of us. Ain’t that the weirdest! Let me name a few truths that have become super-apparent recently. The Struggles of Technology and Humanity 1. It is genuinely easier to program AI than to change a Yahoo!...