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Cultural Development Working Group (City of Fremantle) stated:
Cultural Development Working Group (City of Fremantle) stated:
{{Cquote|''Develop the Arthur Head properties into a dedicated ‘Artists in Residence’ space''}}
{{Cquote|''Develop the Arthur Head properties into a dedicated ‘Artists in Residence’ space.''}}
{{Cquote|''This project would provide an area for an ‘Artists in Residence’ programme that allow for artist exchanges and ensure all arts forms and indigenous artists are included in this project. The City could partner with a Arts organisation to oversee the Artist in Residence programme increasing the number of working artists sharing skills and producing work in Fremantle. This builds upon the current successful ‘Artist in Residence’ programme run by the Fremantle Arts Centre where up to 60 working artists a year participate in various ways to the arts community in Fremantle.''}}
{{Cquote|''This project would provide an area for an ‘Artists in Residence’ programme that allow for artist exchanges and ensure all arts forms and indigenous artists are included in this project. The City could partner with a Arts organisation to oversee the Artist in Residence programme increasing the number of working artists sharing skills and producing work in Fremantle. This builds upon the current successful ‘Artist in Residence’ programme run by the Fremantle Arts Centre where up to 60 working artists a year participate in various ways to the arts community in Fremantle.''}}
On the surface it reads well but when you get to the core of what this implies for the diversity of arts practise in Fremantle it's a statement with huge implications for the Arthur Head properties, West End of Fremantle and Bathers Beach. The statement in essence reflects a real lack of any knowledge of basic business practises or knowledge of the West End of Fremamtle as a whole. Our main concern is that this committee has recommended to Council that the Arthur Head properties should be developed into a dedicated "artist in Residence space".''
On the surface it reads well but when you get to the core of what this implies for the diversity of arts practise in Fremantle it's a statement with huge implications for the Arthur Head properties, West End of Fremantle and Bathers Beach. The statement in essence reflects a real lack of any knowledge of basic business practises or knowledge of the West End of Fremamtle as a whole. Our main concern is that this committee has recommended to Council that the Arthur Head properties should be developed into a dedicated "artist in Residence space".''
If the policies were adopted according to the document as it now stands, and the area was given over to the creation of a dedicated artists in residence space at Arthurs Head under the managership of a Arts organisation (ie.Artsource) it would lead over time to the removal of prominent arts businesses and all of the artists, and historical groups who are now operating from this area. The successful arts businesses who currently operate from this area and who contribute to both the cultural and financial success of Fremantle would be lost from Fremantle for ever.
'''Link''': [http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/City_of_Fremantle/Council_groups_and_committees/Cultural_Development_Working_Group Cultural Development Working Group-City of Fremantle]
'''Link''': [http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/City_of_Fremantle/Council_groups_and_committees/Cultural_Development_Working_Group Cultural Development Working Group-City of Fremantle]