Dr Cecelia Cmielewski is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. As an arts manager she held senior policy and research positions at the Australia Council for the Arts and programmed at the SA Media Resource Centre. Her work analyses the relationship between Australian cultural policies and the fostering of creative practices. Recent critical publications include “Arts Activism in a Cultural Policy Void” in Bennett, Stevenson, Myers and Winikoff (2020), The Australian Art Field. Practices, Policies, Institutions. Her manuscript Creative Frictions. Arts Leadership, Policy and Practice in Multicultural Australia will be published by ANU Press in mid 2021
Cecelia Cmielewski. Photo: Nigel Helyer