Australia Council Awards 2022
These prestigious national awards recognise outstanding and sustained contributions by Australian artists in music, literature, community arts and cultural development (CACD), emerging and experimental arts (EEA), visual arts, theatre, and dance. They are awarded by the Board of the Australia Council, informed by key industry advisors.
Creativity at Work: Interdisciplinary learning in industry and community settings
Creative practitioners are increasingly working and applying creative skills in non-creative sectors. Creativity is also key to the kinds of interdisciplinary approaches that will be required for future work environments. Together, these trends point to potential alternative career pathways for creative practitioners, and the need to prepare creative graduates for future interdisciplinary work.
Image caption: Oneself One’s Self by Elise May with animations by Jordan Turner in Dance 19, QUT 2019. Credit: Tony Phillips.
Our new national Digital Culture Strategy
The Digital Culture Strategy sets out our vision for a digitally enabled and thriving arts and cultural industry. It provides an overarching framework to guide our approach and priorities for digital development.
Our objective is to increase digital engagement with arts and creativity, leading to greater community connection and wellbeing. To achieve this, we also aim to build capability and resilience across the arts and cultural industries.
Image caption: Sue Healey’s On View Panorama. Credit: Naoshi Hatori.
In Real Life: Mapping digital cultural engagement in the first decades of the 21st Century
Produced through a partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts and National Arts Council Singapore, the report provides insights and guidance for the cultural and creative industries as they grapple with the implications of digital transformation.
Image caption: Nancy Mauro-Flude, Beyond Hall of Marvels, Performance installation 7-act monologue / spoken word by computer (1h.17min) / Loop Station / Marshall Amplification. In exhaust, Curated by Erin Sickler, 2016, Contemporary Art Tasmania. Credit: Lou Conboy.
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Stop The Interruptions
Australia has one of the world’s leading music and entertainment sectors. It’s not just vital to our economy and jobs; it provides a rich cultural fabric that connects us all. From sweaty pub gigs to crying with laughter at a comedy show; being moved by an opera aria or diving into the festival mosh; taking your child to their first live show, marvelling at an intricate ballet, or sitting with loved ones in an ornate theatre… these are the moments we all want to get back to.
International Curators Program: Asia Pacific Triennial x TarraWarra Biennial
Curators, creative and cultural producers who identify as First Nations and/or of the Asia Pacific diaspora based in Australia are invited to apply for funding support to participate in a series of online and in-person exchanges in partnership with the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial (APT10) in Brisbane in 2021-22 and TarraWarra Biennial in Healesville in 2023.
Credit: Peter Waddington. Courtesy Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Click on the link to see image caption.
COVID-19 Audience Outlook Monitor 2021
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, the Australia Council is working with Patternmakers and WolfBrown again in 2021 to understand changes in behaviours and sentiments of arts-goers in the wake of the pandemic.
Sector response to COVID-19
Stay up to date with the latest COVID-19 sector and government updates. New guide to Government COVID-19 Assistance for the Arts 2021 is available now.
Emily Crockford
Recipient of the 2020 Australia Council National Arts and Disability Award for an Emerging Artist
Emily Crockford’s broad creative practice encompasses painting, textiles and soft sculpture. Her work can be seen in large scale across Sydney and in high profile institutions.
Digital Business Model Innovation Lab
An opportunity for arts organisations to transform and innovate digital business models in partnership with Tata Consulting Services.
Image credit: Soft Centre Festival 2018. Artist: Meagan Streader. Photo: Charl Anfield.
re(situate) Biennale Delegates Program
The Australia Council Biennale Delegates Program is a professional development opportunity for individuals based in Australia. The 2022 theme is re(situate), an offer to refocus and reposition as we step into this next era in international engagement within the visual arts.
Image caption: Biennale Delegates 2019 at the Assembly exhibition opening. Image credit: Zan Wimberley.
The Australia Council is the Australian Government’s principal arts investment, development and advisory body. We champion and invest in arts and creativity to benefit all Australians through an integrated suite of activities.
The Australia Council is the Australian Government’s principal arts investment, development and advisory body. Our purpose is to champion and invest in Australian arts and creativity.
We invest in arts and organisations through peer assessed grants, fellowships and awards that enable art to be created and experienced.
We deliver strategic sector development initiatives that build industry capacity, networks and digital mobility and increase markets and audiences for Australian creative work.
We advocate for the social, cultural and economic value of the arts and creativity.
We provide advice to government on matters connected with the arts.
We manage government-directed initiatives and frameworks in support of the arts.
We conduct research and analysis that deepens understanding of the role and value of arts and creativity.
We collaborate with state, territory and local governments.
We partner with others to increase investment in and support for creativity.
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