Detritus: Addressing Culture and the Arts

'Let's promote all artforms - the ephemeral as well as the solid and saleable - for all the things our people do as creative individuals to stimulate our brains and our own individual and collective creative muscle.'

Robyn Archer has been a redoubtable player in Australia's arts and cultural communities for decades - as a feminist, festival director and singer and writer.

In this passionate collection of speeches, some even in song, Archer investigates the artistic process - the myriad ways in which artists create a body of work - and the importance of how we, the public, regard, value and use that work.