In 1986 the Australia Council paid for a young photographer to live for a year in Berlin. Anne Zahalka’s subsequent career shows this was money well spent.
Decades of under-funding have left many Australian art schools in a perilous state. And the present political and intellectual hostility to the creative arts is threatening their very existence.
Art schools are emerging globally as very powerful instruments of urban renewal. In a time of transformation, Sydney must learn to tap into the value of having multiple art colleges.