Elitist Stink Bombs

The ever feisty fans of random capitalisation, the Sydney Art Seen Society, announced todaythat Tanya Plibersek MP, Member for Sydney, will present the SASS petition to federal parliament.

OH NO! ARE THEY ELITIST STINKBOMBS nos. 7 & 8 COMING OUR WAY?

THE STARVING VISUAL ARTIST put the cliché to rest PETITION will be presented in Federal Parliament today by Tanya Plibersek MP, the Member for Sydney.

The petition asks the coalition government to redress the mistake it has made in ignoring the basis of the Myer Report: artists. We say no to the nothing the government has given by ignoring the report’s Recommendation One, but yes to the acknowledgement we need.

When the coalition was first elected to government in 1996 the mandatory fee that visual artists had until then received when they exhibited at publicly funded art galleries, ceased. We call for the reinstatement of a mandatory fee at a rate of no less than $2,000, at a rate no less than proper acknowledgement.

Without this acknowledgement the plight of visual artists will worsen when already it is significantly alarming (hence the Myer inquiry). Is this what the coalition wants? Is this what the coalition intends? Surely this cannot be condoned. How more starving can starving be?

FOR MORE INFORMATION and READ THE PETITION .