This Wild Song | Honest Conversations With Australian Artists About Art, Business And Life

This Wild Song (TWS) celebrates Australian female visual artists through portraits, interviews, exhibition and events. Created by Melbourne artist Ilona Nelson, this long term and large scale project seeks to address gender equality in a positive way and support Australian based artists.  Gender inequality is still prevalent in the arts: 74% of visual art graduates are women yet only 34% of museum exhibitions are by women for example.  Melbourne artist Elvis Richardson has a fantastic project called The Countess Report where she gathers data on gender representation in Australian contemporary arts, you can see her research at thecountessreport.com.au Ilona found after hosting only the second TWS forum the same questions kept being asked: If you could start again, what would you do differently?  How do you run your arts business?  How do you structure your days?   How do you fit in your practice when you’re a parent?  Are formal qualifications necessary for a successful career?  And so, she decided to create t