Visual arts
24HR Art: Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
Established in 1990, 24HR Art grew out of a long-standing desire on the part of many individuals and organisations in the Territory for a venue dedicated specifically to the promotion and support of contemporary visual art.
Ananguku Arts & Culture Aboriginal Corporation (KU Arts) is the lead development and support agency for over 400 visual artists and seven art centres in the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of far north-west South Australia.
ANKAAA is the peak advocacy and support agency for Aboriginal artists and art centres located in the regions of: Arnhem Land, Darwin/Katherine, Kimberley and Tiwi Islands.
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia holds one of Australia’s finest art collections, housed in one of Adelaide’s most beautiful historic buildings.
Art on the Move provides comprehensive touring services for all facets of exhibition preparation.
Artback NT Arts Touring is the official arts touring organisation for touring visual and performing arts within the Northern Territory and for travelling NT arts nationally and internationally.
Artlink is a quarterly contemporary visual arts magazine covering contemporary art in Australia.
Artspace Visual Arts Centre is a leading international residency-based contemporary art centre, housed in the historic Gunnery Building in Woolloomooloo fronting Sydney Harbour.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery presenting challenging, innovative and creative visual art.
Australian Centre for Photography
The Australian Centre for Photography is Australia's longest running contemporary art space.
Melbourne artist Bianca Looney received an Australia Council Maker to Manufacturer to Market (MMM) grant in 2006 to explore manufacturing and distribution options both locally and internationally for her Z-Series tiling systems.
The Biennale of Sydney is an international showcase for contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney.
Canberra Contemporary Art Space
The Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS) is one of a national network of contemporary arts organisations dedicated to the generation, presentation and promotion of innovative contemporary visual arts practice in Australia.
Carmen Grostal is an arts practitioner who started work at Footscray Community Arts Centre in 1985.
Trained in fashion and textile design in Sydney and a graduate of interior design at the Parsons School of Design, New York City, Caroline Casey is one of Australia’s leading object designers.
Catherine Truman is a jeweller and object-maker based in Adelaide. She has been practising for nearly thirty years, establishing a national and international profile.
Centre for Contemporary Photography
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice.
Melbourne based artist, Christian Capurro’s installation Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette was featured in the Robert Storr's Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA), one of Adelaide's leading contemporary art spaces, promotes, develops and supports contemporary art practice and critical thinking through South Australian, Australian and international exhibitions, publications, debates and associated activities.
Contemporary Art Services Tasmania
Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST) is Tasmania’s leading contemporary arts organisation committed to assisting the development and promotion of new and experimental art.
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre
The Craft and Design Centre is the peak industry body for contemporary craft and design in the Canberra region.
Craft Australia is the national advocacy organisation representing professional Australian craft and design at a national and international level. The organisation has been celebrating the achievements of Australian professional craft practice for over thirty years.
artisan promotes the design and hand crafted product sector in Queensland through creative partnerships with designers, the corporate sector, government, tertiary institutions and the broader community to create new markets and audiences enabling a self-sustaining creative sector.
Craft Victoria fosters creativity, experimentation and professionalism in contemporary craft and design.
Craftsouth: Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design is the major professional body serving the contemporary craft and design industry in South Australia.
Photographer David Stephenson is well known for his series of domes, stars and landscapes, which has led him to travel extensively all around the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic. Based in Tasmania since 1982, David is currently Research and Postgraduate Coordinator at the School of Art, University of Tasmania.
Desart is the Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres. Desart provides services to its members to resource, promote, educate and protect the work of Indigenous artists and art centres.
Djambawa Marawili is a visual artist, sculptor, administrator and leader of the Madarrpa clan. As leader of the Madarrpa clan, Djambawa is a caretaker for the spiritual wellbeing of his own and related clan and his art is closely related to this.
Dorothy Peters (Aunty Dot) was taught the art of basket coiling in the traditional way from her mother and grandmother. She is one of only three living custodians of traditional Aboriginal basket coiling still living in Victoria.
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation
The East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation ( EGAAC) represents all five East Gippsland Aboriginal communities from Sale to the NSW border in artforms including paintings, pastels, printmaking and basket weaving.
Experimenta is Australia’s leading contemporary arts organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting and promoting media art.
Eyeline is an Australian arts journal based in Brisbane. It publishes criticism and analysis of the contemporary visual arts, craft and related media and is recognised for the quality of its writing, ideas and visual style.
FORM: Contemporary Craft & Design
As Western Australia’s peak professional association for designers, artists and craftspeople working in 3D media, FORM works to identify opportunities for the creative sector to fulfil its potential in commercial as well as artistic terms.
Gallery 4A is an initiative of the Asian Australian Artists Association Inc., a non-profit organisation promoting the work of Asian-Australian artists in the interest of Australian Contemporary Art.
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces was founded in 1983 as a non-profit contemporary art complex of gallery spaces and studio facilities.
South Australian furniture designer Greg Healey is well renowned for his work in art and architecture, urban design, furniture, objects and lighting.
Founded in 1975, the Institute of Modern Art is one of Australia’s first contemporary art spaces.
JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design
JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design is a unique centre for the design, production, exhibition and sale of work by leading and emerging Australian designer / makers.
Senior Ganalbingu artist and Indigenous leader, John Bulunbulun is one of Australia’s most prominent bark painters, cultural activists, Indigenous ambassadors and an advocate for artists rights. His cravings, paintings and prints are highly celebrated and held in many major collectons across the world.
Julie Dowling's paintings reinforce that the personal is always political. Weaving together the elements of portraiture, decoration and text they explore new interpretations of history and the relationships between white and Indigenous Australians.
Katherine Regional Arts Inc is the peak arts organisation in the Northern Territory’s Katherine region.
Over the years, Keith Armstrong has had more knock-backs than grants. You shouldn't rely on Australia Council funding, he says, but don't give up either.
Sydney based artist, Mari Velonaki, has worked in media art since 1995. For over 10 years she has created interactive installations that allow for immersive relationships to develop between the spectator and the artwork. These relationships are controlled by complex sensor-triggered interfaces which incorporate movement, speech, touch, breath, light, text and robotics.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Brazilian-born Marily Cintra has coordinated numerous arts-led community projects that have influenced the development of public art in healthcare throughout Australia.
Museum and Gallery Services Queensland
Museum and Gallery Services Queensland works to serve, promote and foster excellence in Queensland’s museums, galleries and keeping places, to build their value to Queensland communities.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is the only museum in Australia dedicated to exhibiting, collecting and interpreting both local and international contemporary art.
Museums and Galleries NSW (MGNSW) is the key development agency for the museum and gallery sector in NSW.
National Association for the Visual Arts
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is the peak body representing and advancing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector.
NETS Victoria is the peak body for visual arts touring in the state of Victoria. The organisation provides opportunities for regional Victorians to access and engage with the best contemporary art, craft and design.
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara Women’s Council has the dynamic social enterprise; Tjanpi Desert Weavers.
Norma McDonald is recognised as a leading light in Australian painting, but in 1994 she began paving the way for other Aboriginal artists by enrolling as the only Aboriginal art student at Midland college TAFE.
Object: Australia Centre for Craft and Design
One of Australia's most innovative arts organisations, Object passionately supports and promotes contemporary craft and design by showcasing the work of hundreds of talented Australian designers and makers every year.
With a family background in jewellery and metalwork Canberra artist Oliver Smith began his tertiary studies in the Jewellery & Object Studio at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, and completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1995.
Dr Pamela Croft is a Kooma woman from the Uralarai people of South West Queensland who creates her internationally exhibited art from her studio at Keppel Sands on the Capricorn Coast.
Dr Pantjit Mary McLean paintings reflect memories of early life living in the country, daily events hunting and the dreaming, giving her paintings a continuous narrative. Herworks has been exhibited and is collected widely throughout Australia at major galleries and institutions.
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Penelope Forlano operates Forlano Design, a design consultancy focused on providing quality design and project management services.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Housed in a centrally located, iconic heritage building in Perth’s Cultural Centre, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is a place where visitors can experience the work of local, Australian and international artists working in the areas of visual, performing, new media and hybrid arts.
A Yolgnu man best known for his bark paintings and grid-like imagery of the landscapes of his country near Woolen River, Philip has also worked as a stockman, made fences, shot crocodiles for skins and played the sorcerer in Rolf de Heer’s film Ten Canoes.
Inspired by the Australian landscape, Western Australian ceramicist, Pippin Drysdale creates unique works which are a result of her constant experimentation with colour, techniques and forms.
Planex with Alexander Lotersztain - MMM
Planex is an Australian manufacturer who knows how to incorporate design into every level of its business practice. Planex regularly collaborates with Alexander Lotersztain, one of Australia’s leading young designers. Alexander moved from Buenos Aires to Brisbane in 1998 where he completed a design degree. After graduating, he worked in Japan for a year, designing products for Sputnik and Idée.
Print Ink is a Melbourne-based design collaboration of Lisa Carroll, Nadia Husiak and Jason Cesani. Established in 2005, the company produces original textile designs, working with allied design industries - fashion, interiors and homewares.
Whether it’s portraits of Wik elders, images showing the isolation of Aboriginal men in South Australian prisons or the mutton birding traditions of the community where he grew up Ricky Maynard’s unique documentary photography helps keep culture alive and bring attention to Aboriginal social and political realities.
Rod Bamford is an award-winning designer and visual artist who established his own ceramics business, Cone Nine Studios, with partner Janine Brody in 1994.
Based in Sydney, Australia, artist Rosemary Laing has explored conceptually based photography and performance since the 1980s.
Shaun Gladwell is a Sydney-based video artist who also works in the mediums of painting, sculpture and performance.
The contradictory forces of nature, its illusive beauty and potential violence have always fascinated Susan Norrie. Her ambiguous apocalyptic video projections blur the boundaries of fact and fiction with compelling images, saturating sequences of natural and manmade disasters linked by mesmerising soundscapes.
Territory Craft is a membership-based organisation that aims to advance the cause of craft and craftspeople throughout the Northern Territory.
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts
Umbrella Studio Association Incorporated is an inclusive, not-for-profit, members based, exhibition and studio space.
University of Melbourne - AsiaLink
The Asialink Centre promotes public understanding of the countries of Asia and creates links with Asian counterparts.
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