Industry Perspective: As National Director/CEO of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA), Katie Russell shares both her own personal career journey as an arts workerarts work/arts worker and a broader sectoral view of the kinds of cultural and structural change needed to improve incomesincome/s and working conditions in the visual arts sector. She argues that organisations need to match outward-facing gestures towards accessibilityAccessible/accessibility and diversitydiversity with operational change to prioritise working conditions for arts workersarts work/arts worker. This means challenging the prevalence of “vocational awe”, where the intrinsic valueintrinsic value of arts workarts work/arts worker is seen to supersede fair wages, and a willingness to tackle issues of low incomesincome/s and job precarityprecarity. She also shares optimism for the way that industrialindustrial reform across industries, such as the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Act 2024 (Commonwealth of Australia), might create positive change in the visual arts sector.