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2025 AusArt Day Participant Gallery

Donations have now closed for this year's AusArt Day giving day. 

Thursday 23 October

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A young woman in a mustard halter top and white skirt smiles warmly with hands clasped, standing outdoors in conversation with three people in colourful clothing.
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WA

Centre for Stories: One voice, one story, one day to give

Centre for Stories’ AusArt Day campaign will use digital storytelling to spark empathy and raise funds.

A young woman in a mustard halter top and white skirt smiles warmly with hands clasped, standing outdoors in conversation with three people in colourful clothing.
Centre for Stories: One voice, one story, one day to give
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Centre for Stories’ AusArt Day campaign will use digital storytelling to spark empathy and raise funds.

About Centre for Stories

Centre for Stories is a not-for-profit in Boorloo using storytelling to amplify underrepresented voices, build connection, and foster inclusion.

Artwork by Aldous Kelly for Ten Days on the Island 2025, a colourful scene with unique illustrations of animals and nature from Tasmania.
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TAS

Ten Days on the Island: This Island Creates

Support Tasmanian artists to create and share new work; your gift helps local stories travel further.

Artwork by Aldous Kelly for Ten Days on the Island 2025, a colourful scene with unique illustrations of animals and nature from Tasmania.
Ten Days on the Island: This Island Creates
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Support Tasmanian artists to create and share new work; your gift helps local stories travel further.

About Ten Days on the Island 

Tasmania’s statewide arts festival travels the island, transforming places with art and experiences that connect communities and celebrate culture.

A young child sits on the floor during a creative storytelling workshop, looking inquisitively as they engage with the activity.
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WA

The Literature Centre: Imagine More

Imagine More empowers children to dream, explore, and shape their futures—because you can’t create what you cannot first imagine.

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The Literature Centre: Imagine More
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Imagine More empowers children to dream, explore, and shape their futures—because you can’t create what you cannot first imagine.

About The Literature Centre

The Literature Centre provides quality student workshops and writing programs across Western Australia, inspires teachers with professional learning opportunities, and supports Australia’s talented Authors and Illustrators of literature for children and young adults.

Beach Library Activation popping up in support of the Swell Sculpture Festival. Giving away books to the community.
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QLD

Storyfest: Raise the Roof for Storyfest

The Storyfest Marquee campaign seeks to replace our branded marquees after they were unfortunately stolen during our Regional Tour 2025.

Beach Library Activation popping up in support of the Swell Sculpture Festival. Giving away books to the community.
Storyfest: Raise the Roof for Storyfest
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The Storyfest Marquee campaign seeks to replace our branded marquees after they were unfortunately stolen during our Regional Tour 2025.

About Storyfest

Storyfest is a charity delivering children's literature festivals with a mission to share stories, build better lives.

This image shows a man, Keith Ross, working on a large painting mounted on a wall. He is wearing a dark t-shirt, a brown wide-brimmed hat, glasses, and blue disposable gloves. With his right hand, he holds a paintbrush and is applying a stroke of red paint onto the left side of the canvas. His left hand holds a green cleaning cloth. The painting he is working on is a landscape with abstract, muted green and purple tones, depicting hills, pathways, and structures. The man is focused on his work, leaning slig
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VIC

Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM): FOVA Giving Fund

Support the Festival of Veterans Arts (FOVA): a national festival where veterans’ creativity builds connection, resilience and community.

This image shows a man, Keith Ross, working on a large painting mounted on a wall. He is wearing a dark t-shirt, a brown wide-brimmed hat, glasses, and blue disposable gloves. With his right hand, he holds a paintbrush and is applying a stroke of red paint onto the left side of the canvas. His left hand holds a green cleaning cloth. The painting he is working on is a landscape with abstract, muted green and purple tones, depicting hills, pathways, and structures. The man is focused on his work, leaning slig
Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM): FOVA Giving Fund
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Support the Festival of Veterans Arts (FOVA): a national festival where veterans’ creativity builds connection, resilience and community.

About Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM)

ANVAM is a veteran-led charity that supports the wellbeing of the Veteran Community through arts engagement programs, projects and collaborations. 

The view of the harbour, the sea and Newcastle city from Whibayganba-Nobbys Lighthouse.
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NSW

Hunter Writers Centre: Access and Inclusion at Lighthouse Arts

Help us get up the hill! Support Dusty II, a new buggy to keep Lighthouse Arts accessible for all.

The view of the harbour, the sea and Newcastle city from Whibayganba-Nobbys Lighthouse.
Hunter Writers Centre: Access and Inclusion at Lighthouse Arts
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Help us get up the hill! Support Dusty II, a new buggy to keep Lighthouse Arts accessible for all.

About Hunter Writers Centre

HWC cultivates a storytelling & literary culture grounded in community, equity and craft, supporting and celebrating the diverse voice of the Hunter.

This image is of the four special anniversary editions of Overland.
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VIC

Overland: Overland is fundraising for progressive literary culture

This campaign raise money to sustain and grow a progressive literary culture in Australia.

This image is of the four special anniversary editions of Overland.
Overland: Overland is fundraising for progressive literary culture
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This campaign raise money to sustain and grow a progressive literary culture in Australia.

About Overland

Overland has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954.

A young girl stands smiling brightly on stage, wearing a brown cap, green shirt, denim overalls, and a colourful rainbow bag. She gestures excitedly with her hands while a seated woman with curly hair and a leopard-print top holds a microphone toward her, laughing warmly. They are at a lively event at Byron Writers Festival, with a blue backdrop and potted plants behind them.
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NSW

Byron Writers Festival: Byron Writers Festival 30th anniversary

Support Byron Writers Festival to provide access to transformative literary events for regional NSW audiences, artists and school children in our 30th year!

A young girl stands smiling brightly on stage, wearing a brown cap, green shirt, denim overalls, and a colourful rainbow bag. She gestures excitedly with her hands while a seated woman with curly hair and a leopard-print top holds a microphone toward her, laughing warmly. They are at a lively event at Byron Writers Festival, with a blue backdrop and potted plants behind them.
Byron Writers Festival: Byron Writers Festival 30th anniversary
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Support Byron Writers Festival to provide access to transformative literary events for regional NSW audiences, artists and school children in our 30th year!

About Byron Writers Festival

Byron Writers Festival is a regional writers festival creating literary events with powerful outcomes. We bring artists and audiences together to celebrate stories, books and big ideas through our school programs, workshops, events, mentorships and annual festival, on Bundjalung Country in Byron Bay and across the Northern Rivers.


 

Redhead girl, painting flowers in bright sunlit art studio, surrounded by bright colours and paint tubes
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SA

Rundle Collective: The Creative Spark Fund

The Creative Spark Fund allows artists, makers, and creatives to thrive through vital resources, mentorship, and community support.

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Rundle Collective: The Creative Spark Fund

The Creative Spark Fund allows artists, makers, and creatives to thrive through vital resources, mentorship, and community support.

About Rundle Collective

Rundle Collective is a vibrant, inclusive Adelaide studio supporting emerging and established artists, makers, and small creative businesses.

Rosie is an elderly woman with olive skin and a narrow frame. she is wearing a patterned blouse and a red hat on a grey background. She has a surprised look on her face and has her hands and elbows in front of her covering her face. Jonathan is edited to be small and is in a white t-shirt and black shorts made to look like she is jumping off her finger.
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VIC

Dr. Jonathan ‘Jonni’ Homsey: Perhaps...fund neurodiverse choreography.

Using podcasts, videos and memes, Dr. Jonathan ‘Jonni’ Homsey will raise funds for their first book. This book celebrates their intergernational partnership with Rosie Fayman.

Rosie is an elderly woman with olive skin and a narrow frame. she is wearing a patterned blouse and a red hat on a grey background. She has a surprised look on her face and has her hands and elbows in front of her covering her face. Jonathan is edited to be small and is in a white t-shirt and black shorts made to look like she is jumping off her finger.
Dr. Jonathan ‘Jonni’ Homsey: Perhaps...fund neurodiverse choreography.
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Using podcasts, videos and memes, Dr. Jonathan ‘Jonni’ Homsey will raise funds for their first book. This book celebrates their intergernational partnership with Rosie Fayman. 

About Dr. Jonathan ‘Jonni’ Homsey

Dr. Jonathan ‘Jonni’ Homsey is artist and philosopher dedicated to a decades-long pursuit of creating wellbeing, on and off the dancefloor.

This is an image of artisan Kate Fletcher. She is a natural dyer based in Tasmania and is part of my Heritgae Hands project.
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QLD

Heritage Hands: Celebrate Today, Inspire Tomorrow

Preserving cultural heritage through photography and storytelling, honouring artisans and inspiring creativity for future generations.

This is an image of artisan Kate Fletcher. She is a natural dyer based in Tasmania and is part of my Heritgae Hands project.
Heritage Hands: Celebrate Today, Inspire Tomorrow
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Preserving cultural heritage through photography and storytelling, honouring artisans and inspiring creativity for future generations.

About Melissa Hoedel

Melissa Hoedel is a photographer, storyteller, author & Artistic Director dedicated to preserving traditional crafts & inspiring cultural curiosity through art and story.

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We acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honour their Elders past and present.

We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations Peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions.

We are privileged to gather on this Country and through this website to share knowledge, culture and art now, and with future generations.

First Nations Peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have died.

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We acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honour their Elders past and present.

We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways, and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions. We are privileged to gather on this Country and to share knowledge, culture and art, now and with future generations.

Art by Jordan Lovegrove