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weekly art criticism
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FUNDRAISING TARGET

$20,000
AMOUNT RAISED

$5,263
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Memo Review has published
Melbourne’s only weekly
independent art criticism every
Saturday morning since 2017. We
are seeking support to pay our
writers for the next year. Help us
keep quality local art criticism
alive.

So much art writing today is neither here nor there.

Promotion. Marketing. Endless praise. Memo is the only
platform in Melbourne publishing informed, critical art
reviews. We were founded by early-career art historians
who wanted to do something about the lack of free,
accessible writing on local art. We publish reviews of a
broad variety of exhibitions at public art museums,
commercial galleries, and smaller artist-run spaces,
offering critical perspectives from a new generation of
Australian art scholars, writers, curators, and artists.

But from 1 July, Memo will have no funding—we need

your help. We are 100% volunteer run, from editing to
web-development. To pay writers and keep Memo ad-
free, we have launched this Australian Cultural Fund.
With your support, we can continue to publish quality,
independent weekly art criticism.

Over the years, We’ve reviewed (amongst much more):

major blockbusters at the NGV and ACCA
important regional shows in Ballarat, Geelong and
Bendigo
leading contemporary commercial galleries like Neon
Parc, Sutton Gallery, Kali Rolfe, and Anna Schwartz
Gallery
established artist-run spaces like TCB, West Space,
Gertrude Contemporary, Caves Gallery, and Blindside
little-known backyard spaces like Meow, Guzzler, and
Savage Garden.

Memo brings erudite, historically-informed analysis from:

senior and early-career university art historians like
Rex Butler, Helen Hughes, and Anna Parlane
inimitable cultural critics like Philip Brophy and
Audrey Schmidt
practising artists like Amy May Stuart and Kate
Meakin
dedicated contributing editors like Victoria Perin,
Tristen Harwood, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper,
Paris Lettau, Amelia Winata, David Wlazlo, and Giles
Fielke

Since 2019, Memo has also run a student critic

mentorship program, called Mass Memo. Editors support
student art writers through writing workshops and
mentored coverage of the annual art-school graduate
shows at VCA, Monash University, and RMIT. Memo is the
first to cover many young and emerging artists coming
out of Melbourne. We are helping build their art-
historical record and are a key contributor to local
conversations about our city’s art. Readers come to
Memo for opinions with substance from writers who
care. Funds raised will be used to pay our writers and
support delivery of our student critic mentorship
program. To cover the costs of a year’s 50 reviews, we
require $20,000.

$1,000 will pay for over two reviews and contribute

to our overheads like web-hosting fees and ad-hoc
design fees making you a Benefactor
Benefactor.
$400 will pay for a single review and make you a
Commissioner
Commissioner.
$100 will get a writer to a regional gallery.
Every contribution is sincerely appreciated.
We will celebrate the generosity of our supporters,
listing your name on our website.

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The Australian Cultural Fund is administered by Creative Partnerships Australia and

supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Infrastructure,
Transport, Regional Development and Communications. Copyright © 2022
Creative Partnerships Australia.

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