I want to sing praises – even before any decision has been taken. In the past I have been involved making Arts Council grants and ticking all their boxes for equality, age range, audience growth and being advised the way to make a successful application is to use all the buzz words they use in…
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Managing Ideas
Many years ago I took a class each week in farming grasslands and cereals to learn to be more practical. In one of the first classes we were given ten things to look at when buying a new field, among which were irrigation, chemical make up of soils, access, drainage, plough panning etc. I listed…
Funding the Arts
National governments started giving money to artists in recent history. They replaced to some extent private patrons by becoming a patron themselves, and they give their money with more stri9ngs attached than private patrons ever did and all of those str9ngs are to do with how society sees itself and nothing to do with art…