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Findings from Creative Australia’s latest six-yearly demographic research into the working lives of artists reveals some concerning trends.

A report that measures gender equality across Australia's visual arts scene shows the representation of women artists has stalled.

Extensive survey released by the National Association for the Visual Arts reveals gender disparity

A report that measures gender equality across Australia's visual arts scene shows the representation of women artists has...

Broader opportunities and representation are needed in the arts sector for women, trans, non-binary and gender-diverse artists.

Institutions must think about gender equity and how creative labour, practice and outputs are valued economically, socially and culturally.

CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008 details the sad truth of inequity in gender representation in visual arts in Australia.

If one reads through every word of this plan, as I masochistically did, it sounds so empty, formulaic and repetitious.

The National Gallery of Australia has launched a Gender Equity Action Plan to accelerate gender equity in all its programs and exhibits. 

Her essay was both a clarion call for a new generation of women and a signal to change the institutions that shape the understanding of art. Nochlin was not writing from the perspective of an artist, frustrated at the lack of recognition, nor was she simply claiming that past women geniuses had seen their work relegated to the attic. Rather, as one of the great authorities on 19th century European art, she gave a scathing and detailed analysis of how and why white bourgeois men were “great�...