The sector is under pressure. No platform cut. The double-blind model protects the writing. What $100 actually buys. Funding is uneven, not absent. That makes the archive more necessary. Who commissions, and why they stay anonymous. What we don't do. Fund the archive. FAQs

You're filling out a Creative Australia Arts Projects application. The form asks you to demonstrate professional practice and critical reception. You've got your artist statement, your project budget, a letter from a venue. Then you hit the field: external critical response to your work. You have Instagram posts. You have a friend who wrote something on their Substack. You have nothing you can paste into a government grant portal and expect to be taken seriously. A published review, from a named outlet, with a named critic, is what that field is asking for.