Recently, it was disclosed that the National Gallery of Victoria now pays the salaries of ten per cent of its permanent staff from donations. The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Sydney Modern Project currently derives around a third of its budget from private donors. This dependence on private wealth in the arts is nothing new. But while the spotlight is again on arts philanthropy, perhaps it i ... (read more)
Thea Gardiner
Thea Gardiner researches and writes on the place of women in Australian historical memory. She is a PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, writing a biography of the artist and activist Portia Geach (1873–1959), and is an Historian at the archaeology and cultural heritage company Dr Vincent Clark & Associates. Her upcoming book, Mab: The world of Mab Grimwade, will be released in 2023 by Melbourne University Press.