Creative Australia

Creative Australia We are the Australian Government’s principal arts investment, development and advisory body. We are a champion for Australian arts both here and overseas.

Creative Australia's strategic plan reflects our desire to make more visible the vitality of our arts and culture, and to recognise the evolving way that Australians make and experience art. Our role is to support the unimagined along with the reimagined, the unknown and experimental along with the keenly anticipated. We invest in artistic excellence through support for all facets of the creative process and are committed to the arts being more accessible to all Australians.

03/09/2026

Registrations are open for AusArt Day 2026! 🟣🟢

AusArt Day – a national giving day to the arts – is open to all Australian artists, collectives and arts organisations seeking to raise funds for their creative practice, projects or ongoing activities.

The day is designed to shift how Australians see and value the arts, and encourage more people to give in support of Australian creativity.

Participation is free and open to all, with no assessment process. To be featured in the AusArt Day website gallery, receive access to the campaign toolkit and workshops, and to be included in campaign activity, projects must be registered.

Registrations close Thursday 24 September. Find out more and register on our website.

⏰ We have several Matched Funding opportunities closing on Tuesday 15 September.As part of our Capability Development fr...
27/08/2026

⏰ We have several Matched Funding opportunities closing on Tuesday 15 September.

As part of our Capability Development framework, these opportunities are designed to support artists and arts organisations to build private-sector fundraising experience and strengthen their business models, helping to sustain their practice over time.

Please visit our website for more information, including Q&A webinar recordings to help you prepare and strengthen your application: https://brnw.ch/21x5eGR

⏰ Be quick – nominations for the First Nations Arts and Culture Awards close at 3pm AEST Tuesday 15 September!Nominate y...
26/08/2026

⏰ Be quick – nominations for the First Nations Arts and Culture Awards close at 3pm AEST Tuesday 15 September!

Nominate your favourite First Nations artists in four categories:

• Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Artistic Excellence and Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Advocacy and Leadership (now $80,000 for each Award)

• Established Artist of the Year Award

• Youth Award for Achievement in the Arts

• First Nations Arts and Culture Business Innovation Award

Find the guidelines and more here: https://brnw.ch/21x5d0U

🗺️ In Garramilla (Darwin) on Larrakia Country, First Nations practitioners working across textile, customary adornment a...
06/08/2026

🗺️ In Garramilla (Darwin) on Larrakia Country, First Nations practitioners working across textile, customary adornment and fashion have come together from across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Turtle Island Canada through the Tri Nations Exchange Program.

This is a three-year Creative Australia initiative supporting cultural exchange, collaboration, capacity building and First Nations-led sector development.

This program brings together First Nations fashion and textile creatives, designers, models and industry specialists and advocates to develop leadership, strengthen sector connections and support a fashion and textiles ecosystem across 3 continents, grounded in respect, reciprocity and custodianship.

The first gathering will be hosted by Creative Australia in Garramilla Darwin on Larrakia Country from 2–10 August 2026, followed by subsequent immersive visits to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2027 and Turtle Island Canada in 2028.

They began this exchange with a formal welcoming ceremony and an exchange of cultural gifts. This marks the start of a week of panels, events, performances, and cultural exchanges.

Images by Jimblah

29/07/2026

What does our creative future look like? Inclusive.

This video features Luke King sharing Creative Futures Fund 2026-27 outcomes in Auslan Congratulations to the re:group performance collective, DEA[f] Collective and Intimate Spectacle.

THE MILAN CONFERENCE draws on the 1880 Milan Conference, where oralism was endorsed over sign language and imagines its legacy in a near-future Australia. Urgent, inventive and deeply resonant, it asks who gets to shape the future of Deaf education, language and culture.

Discover the full suite of 2026–27 Creative Futures Fund projects via the link in our bio.

29/07/2026

What does our creative future look like? Inclusive.

This video features Luke King sharing Creative Futures Fund 2026-27 outcomes in Auslan

Congratulations to the re:group performance collective, DEA[f] Collective and Intimate Spectacle. THE MILAN CONFERENCE draws on the 1880 Milan Conference, where oralism was endorsed over sign language and imagines its legacy in a near-future Australia.

Urgent, inventive and deeply resonant, it asks who gets to shape the future of Deaf education, language and culture.

Discover the full suite of 2026–27 Creative Futures Fund projects at https://creative.gov.au/creative-futures-fund

Final weeks to submit your expressions of interest for artistic proposals to represent Australia at the 62nd Internation...
22/07/2026

Final weeks to submit your expressions of interest for artistic proposals to represent Australia at the 62nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale 2028). Read the guidelines on our website and watch the recorded information session linked in bio.

⏰Submit your application by Tuesday 4 August, 3pm AEST. If you need advice about applying, contact the Venice Biennale Project team at [email protected]

https://brnw.ch/21x4k9M

26/06/2026

‘It’s an extremely rare honour to participate both in the Arsenale show and in the Australia Pavilion. Very few artists get to participate in both, but even fewer artists get to participate in both at the same time.’

– Michael Dagostino curator for Australia’s presentation at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.

'conference of one’s self’
Artist: Khaled Sabsabi
Curator: Michael Dagostino
Commissioner: Creative Australia
Exhibition dates: May 9 – November 22 2026
Read more at www.theinvitation.com.au




Creative Workplaces is launching new superannuation resources for the creative industries.Join us in Adelaide for a prac...
22/06/2026

Creative Workplaces is launching new superannuation resources for the creative industries.

Join us in Adelaide for a practical conversation with industry experts and practitioners unpacking superannuation obligations and entitlements in creative work.

📅 Thursday 25 June
📍 The Mercury, Adelaide
🕑 2:00pm

Capacity limited - RSVP now: https://bit.ly/4eM0JkS

15/06/2026

When I’m in the work, beyond the visual aspects where I find moments of reflection is when I just close my eyes and go with the sound. I think that detaches you from physical realm, sends you somewhere else into this place of imagination’

- Khaled Sabsabi artist for Australia’s presentation at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.

‘conference of one’s self’
Artist: Khaled Sabsabi
Curator: Michael Dagostino
Commissioner: Creative Australia
Exhibition dates: May 9 – November 22 2026
Visit www.theinvitation.com

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