Interview with Michael Brand, director of Art Gallery of New South Wales
By Michael Young
Michael Brand, director of Art Gallery of New South Wales, in his office. Photo by Michael Young for ArtAsiaPacific.
Within days of taking up his new role on June 25 as director of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Michael Brand learned that AUD 1.2 million had been slashed from the AGNSW’s annual operating budget by the New South Wales state government. The deficit represents about five percent of the Art Gallery's yearly grant, the majority of which covers salaries. With such a shortfall, Brand admits, “there may be redundancies.”
