Extraordinary things happen in places most people never look. The symposium asks a simple, urgent question: how do we feed ambition in coastal and rural towns so people don’t have to leave to succeed? How do we connect world‑class institutions with the smallest communities — and put more art in the hands of more people, wherever they live?
Thanks to Martyn Gough, Ruth Butler, Rachael Long, Keron Beatie, Isabel Lowdell, Amy Liddington and Marco Yuen

