Jane has been working as an artist, facilitator, artistic director and arts-worker for the past 13 years. Jane has had a fruitful and ongoing relationship with Contact Inc as a past artistic director of Contact Inc, board member and employee. She is currently in her third cycle of working with the organisation. Jane is highly skilled in cross cultural practice and has worked consistently with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Pacific Islander and recently arrived migrant and refugee communities.
With the commitment by the new federal government to renew and reinstate the Creative Australia National cultural policy by the end of 2022, there is a perfect opportunity to complete the Arts Front 2030 work, and promote the ideas and visions for the future that people have contributed over the last five years.
Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.