This report examines the barriers to and the strategies for increasing audiences in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts sector. The research investigates the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of current and potential audiences.

Over the past ten years or so, there has been a dramatic rise in the general appreciation and development of Aboriginal visual art practices in south-east Australia. Although Aboriginal people in the south-east (which in this report is the whole of Victoria including the adjoining border regions of South Australia and New South Wales) have...