The business of arts and culture – and the art of business

Colin Tweedy recently attended an international meeting of arts and business bodies in Australia. Tweedy, along with Brian Peck and Kerry Klineberg of the Australia Business Arts Foundation, talk to Arts Hub about the directions arts and business models in the UK and Australia are taking.
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Colin Tweedy, the Chief Executive of Arts & Business, (the British equivalent to the Australia Business Arts Foundation, AbaF), recently visited Australia to network with a number of other international arts and business bodies from Canada, Italy, Austria, the US, UK, Korea and Japan. While Arts & Business is now in its 27th year of operation, AbaF is comparatively younger, only existing in its current form for the past three years. Despite this, Tweedy says he was suitably impressed with the progress the organisation has made in that short time.

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Michelle Draper
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Michelle lived and worked in Rome and London as a freelance feature writer for two and a half years before returning to Australia to take up the position of Head Writer for Arts Hub UK. She was inspired by thousands of years of history and art in Rome, and by London's pubs. Michelle holds a BA in Journalism from RMIT University, and also writes for Arts Hub Australia.