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Lauren Carroll Harris

Lauren Carroll Harris

Lauren Carroll Harris is an art critic and curator.

Artists are treated like gig workers, and it’s holding back our cultural capacity writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

Australia could unleash a cultural renaissance by paying artists a living wage

Australia is one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, but our art is largely provided on the cheap by unwaged artists. In any other sector, we’d call it a scandal.

  • Lauren Carroll Harris

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Artist Patricia Piccinini with Skywhalepapa.

Undermining the NGA’s gender equity plan is profoundly cynical

A new bid to ensure gender equality in our public art galleries is not a capitulation to political correctness. It is a tacit admission of historical failure.

  • Lauren Carroll Harris