Peer assessment and arm’s length funding have been guiding principles of how the Australia Council allocates funding for more than 40 years. Find out how to become a peer assessor.
Applications for the Marten Bequest Scholarships, the Kathleen Mitchell Award and the Dal Stivens Award are now open.
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.
The Regional Performing Arts Touring program (Playing Australia) supports performing arts to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.
This weekly online conversation was developed for the Arts and creative industry: digital support facebook group. Every week, industry experts, artists and digital adaptors joined the panel to discuss solutions and ideas that inform the industry. Watch the previous episodes.
The theatre sector in Australia is a ‘broad church’ which encompasses several spheres of activity. This includes commercial, professional subsidised, unsubsidised independent, participatory, community, and amateur theatre. Within these spheres there is a diversity of genres, including: plays and scripted work, music theatre and cabaret, circus and physical theatre, installation theatre performance, puppetry, media-based theatre work, live art, and contemporary inter-disciplinary performance.
The view from 2014 is of a sector that is keen to keep pace with the broader environment. Theatre artists, organisations and enablers (such as producers) are highly attuned to the interests and needs of national and international audiences, and evolving platforms for engagement.
Brook Andrew is one of Australia’s most distinguished artists and his contribution to contemporary visual arts in Australia and globally is significant. Brook Andrew is Artistic Director of NIRIN, 22nd Biennale of Sydney 2020; Associate Professor, Monash University; Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne; Associate Researcher, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Blockchain technology is predicted to shake up how we all do business, and there have already been experiments with royalty payments for music and screen works, proving the authenticity of visual art works and fashion, avoiding ticket scalping and more.
In November 2018, the Australia Council published new research showing the arts are increasingly on the itinerary for visitors to Australia.
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
Creativity is innate to humanity and is the wellspring of culture. Our arts 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. Her practice is characterised by large-scale video and sound works.
Image Credit: Paul Dunn. Rawcus is an award winning and critically acclaimed long-term collaborative ensemble delivering exceptional arts experiences which include artists with disability.
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.