David Walsh on art

“Art can make very imprecise statements that are very profound and communicate them quickly. It overloads all the senses and emotions—not just our intellectual capacity,” says David Walsh, founder of Hobart's Museum of New Art in The Australian Financial Review today. “As someone who was a kid who struggled with emotional expression, the sort of person that many people these days describe as autistic, art was a fascinating field that was unknown to me, and the more I explored it the more I realised I did not know.”