Newcastle Big Picture Festival director Kat Skoumbas

Newcastle Big Picture Festival director Kat Skoumbas discusses the value of the artworks created during the festival.

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00:00Art reflects... the value of art is so great. We keep skating over it, I think, and if you can

00:12stay still enough to realise just how important it is to

00:17take it into your everyday, I think it's really powerful. So being able to connect people

00:27through art can lead to so many things, but one of the most simplest things is that it brings joy,

00:34it brings beauty, and connection is something that we have lost over the years.

00:42So these kind of big, imposing artworks, whether you like them or not, it doesn't matter,

00:48really. It's the fact that people are connecting over them that really

00:54strikes me as fascinating and important for community.