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Artists’ organisation CARFAC played a pivotal role in last year’s Ottawa Visual Arts Summit where formal and informal gatherings brought artists, administrators, academics and volunteers together to set direction for the visual arts community in the coming years.

CARFAC said: “For the first time in forty years, presenting institutions are walking hand-in-hand with artists. Together we will tackle not only the needs of individuals but also the needs of the infrastructure that is so valuable for a vibrant visual arts sector in Canada.”1 The approach in England has been rather different. Although May has seen a raft of consultations across Arts Council England’s regional offices where organisations and some individuals including artists have been receiving email invitations with seven days notice to “share our thinking and emerging priorities with you and hear your thoughts on the challenges and opportunities of the next few years”. On the visual arts front, ACE has set up regional strategy groups to discuss how to deliver the recommendations of the Turning point review of the presentation of contemporary art2. Reports suggest there have been few artists participating in either of these important consultation strands. So where exactly are the channels of communication through which the individual practitioner can contribute to such discussions? Having looked around at other countries, Mark Ravenhill has made a...

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