Dr Ashley Crawford’s passing has cast a profound silence over the Australian arts community he significantly shaped for more than 4 decades. Born in Melbourne in 1960, Crawford began his career as a teenage cadet at the Herald, before the DIY energy of punk propelled him into independent publishing, first with Virgin Press, then Tension, and later 21•C and World Art. From working in improvised bedroom offices to proper digs in New York and Amsterdam, he built magazines that treated contemporary art, music, science fiction, philosophy and pop culture as part of the same restless conversation. His editorships launched careers, collapsed hierarchies and fundamentally rewired the possibilities
of Australian art publishing.

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