SEVEN months after the long-serving previous incumbent, Sam Tyler, moved to the ACT’s Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development directorate, Caroline Fulton has today (January 20) been announced as artsACT’s new executive branch manager.

A high-level arts bureaucrat who has lived in Canberra for 50 years, Fulton has 35 years of experience working on arts and cultural policy development and programs, mostly in the public sector, including a five-year stint at artsACT in the early 2000s.

In 2018, she was named chair of the Film Certification Advisory Board and was later promoted to become assistant secretary of the Creative Industries Branch in the Australian government’s Office for the Arts, where she had responsibility for policy and programs relating to the development of the creative industries including screen, games, visual arts and design, contemporary music and literature.

She also served a short secondment at the National Library of Australia.

“I am thrilled to be part of the artsACT team again,” Fulton said. “Having lived in Canberra for nearly 50 years, and being an avid arts consumer, I feel privileged to be able to play a part in supporting the vibrant and dynamic creative sector that we have here in the ACT.”

She also referred to ACT Arts Minister Tara Cheyne’s grand “Statement of Ambition for the Arts” and said she looked forward to assisting the sector to meet the challenges of “an ever-changing environment”.