Our grants program supports a diverse range of artists, artistic practice, organisations and arts activities. Applications for Australia Council grants are independently assessed by artists and arts professionals from across the country. Apply before Tuesday 2 March 2021.
Discussing
the importance and impact of good public policy following a year of disruption,
George Megalogenis and Dr Wendy Were featured in our first episode.
‘In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.’
Adrian Collette AM, CEO Australia Council quoting, Svendborg Poems: Berthold Brecht 1930.
Three outstanding artists were celebrated at the National Arts and Disability Awards, coinciding with the International Day of People with Disability. The Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Access Australia partnered to present the prestigious awards.
This webinar series is a deep dive into the main themes of the report, exploring how Australians’ increasingly value the benefits of the arts and creativity.
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.
The Australia Council for the Arts supports artists to take creative risks and develop new types of artistic expression.
Australian experimental arts explore challenging new concepts in the creation and experience of arts and culture. Artists take new approaches to seeding, creating and presenting art through innovative partnerships and collaborative creative processes.
The projects we fund are highly conceptual, contextual and relational. They play with or invent new forms, methodologies, technologies or explore non-material ideas.
These sometimes include art/science research collaborations, bio art, live art, socially engaged practices and new technologies. They often explore ecology, sustainability, urban renewal, and other cultural issues.
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r e a is a Gamilaraay/Wailwan/Biripi artist from NSW, who examines the bonds between our bodies and our politics, our memories, our place and our futures.
They work with photography, digital media and moving images, connecting people and their stories through time and technology.
Recently, r e a was part of the Big Anxiety festival’s Empathy clinic, inviting audiences to experience new forms of listening, reflection and meditation through story telling.
Cultivating Creativity: A study of the Sydney Opera House’s Creative Leadership in Learning Program in schools is the result of a research partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts and Sydney Opera House. The report provides powerful evidence of the ways in which creative learning approaches can build confidence...
On the International Day of People with Disability, please join us to recognise Australian artists and arts-workers who have made an outstanding contribution to the artistic and cultural life of the nation. Date: Thursday 3 December 2020 Time: 2.00pm - 3.00pm AEDT
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the arts and cultural industries. The pandemic has illuminated pressures we were already feeling. It is bringing to light aspects of our industry many have long wanted to change, along with new issues we are now being forced to address.
Creative Connections is an online webinar series for the cultural and arts sectors and will offer practical, accessible and useful content delivered by industry experts on key topics and emerging themes. As a direct response to the current challenges faced by the arts sector, we acknowledge the isolation felt by artists...
Participants will use a range of design techniques to interrogate the value proposition of their organisation; and identify practical solutions and next steps. The program includes a range of activities including online learning sessions, intensive residential labs...
Emerging and experimental arts activity is innovative in its methodology and often takes risks with processes and outcomes of the work, this can happen both within and across artforms and disciplines. Its processes often resemble those of research and development.
Socially engaged art responds to urgent real world problems while simultaneously creating new genres and aesthetic approaches. It results in new collaborations, ways of engaging and ways of thinking which provide both artists and communities with important new platforms.
For the past 30 years the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) has been a catalyst for experimentation and innovation across art, science and technology. ANAT forges relationships with industry, academia, community and government to broker opportunities for artists.
There is enormous public value generated through the arts for the whole of civil society – the arts contribute significantly across our nation’s health, education, industry, global affairs and more. Sam Walsh AO, Chair, Australia Council for the Arts
Creativity is innate to humanity and is the wellspring of culture. We are all connected through arts and creativity. Our arts are vital expressions of human experience. They embody individual and collective stories, histories, identities and help us understand what it means to be human.
One of Australia’s most celebrated and internationally profiled contemporary artists, Angelica Mesiti works across video, performance and installation. Mesiti has developed a practice characterised by large-scale video and sound works.
The Australia Council for the Arts has released new research which examines the economic conditions faced by practising professional artists in Australia and their increasing value to society and the future of work.