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A survey for Creative Australia reveals men outnumbered two to one with the split rising to four to one in the literary scene
A portrait of an artist as a young man is more likely to be a portrait of an artist as a middle age-woman in Australia today.
The seventh economic study of professional performing and visual artists and writers across all art forms was released by Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council) on Tuesday, and women working in the sector now outnumber men two to one. And the average age of a professional artist is 48 for women and 49 for men.
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