"The really obvious answer is that we need to support and empower the people who are best placed to advance artforms and challenge received ideas – and that’s artists. We have to start with the art; it’s easy to talk among ourselves, easy to focus on structures, organisations and processes – and that’s undoubtedly important – but we need to make sure we aren’t putting the cart before the horse. The cultural infrastructure in this country is good and has the potential to be even better, but we are facilitators and producers in the service of artists, and we mustn’t forget that."