My whole life, my whole career has been about expanding the cultural canvas. So for me, starting as a director, starting running small companies, working with Aboriginal artists, and then getting to the point where I go, actually, I want to have a bigger canvas, think about the nation, think about how you introduce big ideas. So working with different theatre companies like Belvoir Street, Melbourne Theatre Company, working with the Commonwealth Games in 2006, and then eventually I also did 2018 in the Gold Coast, and then working at the Queensland Theatre Company and then the Sydney Festival. This idea of an ever-expanding canvas on which to talk about ideas.

Andrea James, who’s an Aboriginal theatre maker, I walked in on a conference once and she said, “Not all of us can be Wesley Enoch. Wesley Enoch is a freak, and by him getting so much work, he is stopping others from getting work.” And I went, yes, you’re absolutely right, because I’m gathering resources to myself. And so by the time I got to the Queensland Theatre Company, I was going, how do I disperse resources? And going to the Sydney Festival was about saying, how do I create more of a platform for indigenous artists that have a national platform, international platform, to make their work and present their work.