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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Self-insemination artist ‘vindicated’ after settling legal case over withdrawn Australian government funding

Casey Jenkins at Curtain Square gardens, Melbourne
Casey Jenkins has settled her legal claim against the Australia Council for cancelling funding for a performance exhibition in 2020. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian

A performance artist who had federal government funding cancelled after a backlash against a work involving their self-insemination says the national arts advisory body is still being run by the people who led the “ridiculous charge” against them.

Casey Jenkins has settled a federal court case against the Australia Council, now known as Creative Australia, for withdrawing $25,000 in funding for the exhibition Immaculate, in which they intended to livestream their monthly attempts to become pregnant.

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