Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022
Hatched 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the national graduate exhibition. Noting the origins of Hatched in 1992 is worthwhile, not only to celebrate the longevity of the exhibition—an amazing achievement in and of itself—but to invite a comparison between two moments of uncertainty within Australia’s artworld. In 1992, emerging out of the ‘recession we had to have’, the Australian art community was left to ponder the very future we inhabit today. In response to such economic disquiet, Artlink published the special issue The Artworkers Guide to the Economy, inviting critics, gallerists, political analysts, and members of the Australia Council to respond to the question of how Australia’s ‘art industry’—a term that was very much in dispute then, if more accepted today—could reimagine itself.