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Stephen Cassidy has worked throughout the cultural sector for 25 years, in community and industry organisations and local, state and national government, spanning arts research and policy, museums, radio, publishing and community arts. He has worked for organisations as diverse as the Powerhouse Museum, community radio 2SER-FM, and several publishing companies, and has undertaken research for the national arts funding and policy body, the Australia Council.
He currently works in the Australian Government Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. His work there has involved policy analysis and development, research; and management of programs to support Indigenous languages and culture, creative industries and cultural organisations, particularly related to the digital and online environment.
In parallel with this work, he is also a writer. His writing ranges across articles, poetry, short stories, installations, songs, websites and digital imedia. Key themes include both serious and not so serious matters, such as Australian culture and creative industries, the online and digital world, the use (and abuse) of language, geography and landscape, and science, almost always with a sense of short black humour.
He has written for numerous specialist cultural publications, including Artbeat magazine, published by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Powerline magazine, published by the Powerhouse Museum, Artlink magazine, the National Association for the Visual Arts Newsletter, Community Arts National and the NSW and South Australian Community Arts Network Newsletters. His writing has also been published in local ACT magazine, Blast, in ACTWrite, the ACT Writers Centre magazine, on the website of the ACT Writers Centre and in Idiom 23 magazine.
Starting writing early, at the age of nine, his writing has previously gained recognition in two subsequent HQ magazine Short Story Contests, being shortlisted in the 1994 contest, as well as in the Bauhinia Literary Awards, the ACT Writers Centre Poetry Award, Conversations, an exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, of works produced by writers and visual artists in creative dialogue and the 2004 Goulburn Art Award.
His latest work is Signature of water, produced with visual artist Deborah Faeyrglenn for a group exhibition on the theme of water, also at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. He was also shortlisted for the 2004 Newcastle Poetry Prize New Media Award for Remembering Dresden. |
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