Zebedee Parkes, a filmmaker himself, sits down with Markela Panegyres, a visual artist, to discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on the arts community, why art is more important now than ever and how many of the issues have existed for years and being made worse with decades of government funding cuts and devaluing of the arts in society.

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