Untitled (Decanted rack) 2013 by Clare Rae, featuring in Melbourne Now. Image: www.ngv.vic.gov.au
To align the arts with broader societal and economic opportunities, we need to break out from our silos and foster cross-sector collaboration.
That’s the message being vaunted by governments as creativity is reassessed and refined for the 21st century.
​One indication of this change in thinking at a political level is in the nomenclature. On its election last year, the Andrews Victorian Government promptly repositioned Arts Victoria as the cross-departmental cultural agency Creative Victoria, pushing cross-sector collaboration as being a key driver in the creative economy.
Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley told ArtsHub, ‘It is through collaboration, through the breaking down of those silos, that we can look at what creativity really means.’
