Ricardo Peach

Ricardo Peach
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  Dr Ricardo Peach is an independent cultural consultant who has worked for both local and federal governments. He was the Acting Director of the Inter-Arts Office at the Australia Council for the Arts in 2012, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a high level, national experimental arts sector plan. At the Australia Council he also initiated an MOU with UNESCO; created the Art in Festivals Initiative; developed the Indigenous Experimental Art Fund; established the AlloSphere Artist Residency at the California NanoSystems Institute in the University of California, Santa Barbara; developed the four year Splendid Young and Emerging Artist initiative with the music festival Splendour in the Grass; and instigated the first government supported artist residency in a virtual world. Ricardo managed national client files such as the multi-cultural touring organization Kultour and the Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence program. He was also the Coordinator of the Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy, initiating the Diversity of Cultural Expression (DICE) Research Project in partnership with the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney and the UNESCO Office Bangkok in 2012. Presenting at the Groundswell Multicultural Forum, April 2012. Photograph courtesy publiczacha, Storify Ricardo was born in Mpumalanga, South Africa and moved with his family to Australia in the 1980s