EMBATTLED Arts Minister Ros Bates has used her expertise at playing Chopsticks on the piano as evidence she is qualified for the job.
Ms Bates yesterday addressed the arts industry in an attempt to bring the focus back to her portfolio and away from the controversy that has dogged her since the election.
She told the audience: "I actually studied pianoforte to grade 8. It has been a long time since I played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata but I am sure I could do a pretty good duet on Chopsticks with any of you."
Ms Bates went on to share that she sang descant - or counter-melody - in her school choir. But she admitted her skills in that department had also lapsed.
Ms Bates was speaking at a so-called State of the Arts Forum to reiterate the Newman Government's commitment to the arts.
But she failed to share any new information about additional support, instead speaking broadly of her vision and plans for the arts industry.
She did reveal the members of the new Arts Investment Advisory Board that is responsible for allocating grant funding and guiding the minister on policy decision.
The board will include Queensland art impresario Phillip Bacon, Queensland Art Gallery chair Sue Street, Hutchinson Builders' Scott Hutchinson, Industrea CEO Robin Levison, lawyer and strategic adviser David Thomas and company director Dr Jane Wilson. The chair will be Mark Fenton from RACQ.
The address was followed by a question-and-answer session in which interested parties were invited to submit questions in the lead-up to the event.
The event's MC, former arts minister Joan Sheldon, said the minister would only answer a selection of questions from those submitted ahead of time, and would not take any questions from the floor.
Several of the questions on notice that were asked of her related to the funding of small to medium arts organisations such as Expressions Dance Company and La Boite Theatre Company.
The minister assured that funding was secure.
Later she said she intended to find more money for the small to medium organisations.
"It is the grassroots, it is where innovation begins."
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