SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Public Spaces/Private Funding: Foundations for Contemporary Art 2007

What are the major changes in world contemporary art? How might independent, non-commercial and openhearted private foundations take stock of these changes and make a distinctive contribution to sustaining valuable contemporary art and to increasing enlightened understanding of it? These questions were posed at a one-day forum held at Sherman Galleries, Sydney, on 10 August 2006, entitled ‘Public Spaces/Private Funding: Foundations for Contemporary Art’. In this volume, Professor Terry Smith, David Elliott, Lynne Cooke, Rupert Myer AM and Dr Gene Sherman respond from scholarly, art critical, curatorial and philanthropic points of view. They assess the work of foundations in many parts of the world and outline the climate for philanthropy in Australia. Their main focus is the increasingly pertinent question: How might private initiatives most help contemporary art in Australia, now and in the foreseeable future, taking into account the regional and international contexts in which art is produced and circulates?

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