Once you submit your application, we will send you an email acknowledging receipt of your application.
After you submit your application, we first check it meets the eligibility criteria for the grant or opportunity to which you are applying.
You will be notified of the outcome of your application in early January 2024.
For FAQs relating to the grants model, please click here.
Please contact the Artists Services team.
Once all applications have been assessed, you will be contacted about the outcome of your application. If you have been successful, you will also be sent an agreement.
Phase 1: Program onboarding and introduction
Program Overview’ Cohort workshop (120 minutes online, date TBC)
Phase 2: Assess
Your specialist will guide you through a process to identify the organisation’s current digital capacity.
‘Ideate’ Cohort workshop (120 minutes online, date TBC)
Phase 3: Ideate
A process of ideation and investigation to identify digital challenges and opportunities for your organisation. This will include workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
‘How to Pitch’ Cohort workshop (120 minutes online, date TBC)
Phase 4: Develop
Identify, test and develop your flagship project, model program or prototype product. Seed funding is released. ‘Organisations Pitch Projects’ Cohort workshop (120 minutes online, date TBC)
Phase 5: Pilot & Refine
Launch project, evaluate early learnings, present findings. Put in place tracking and evaluation frameworks.
‘Organisations Present Learnings’ Cohort workshop (120 minutes online, date TBC)
Our digital specialists are a diverse group of creative technologists and digital consultants with a broad range of experience across digital technologies, capacities and roles. Specialists will be located across Australia and are selected based on their:
Organisations will be matched with specialists based on the individual needs and priority areas.
The Digital Specialist will be available for one day each week across the fourteen-week residency. This will include some mutual contact hours each week (as well as the Specialist’s research and planning time for your organisation).
There will be a combination of contact and non-contact hours with your organisation for between two to four team members. Other team members should also be invited to discrete activities and kept informed by the organisation as to the project progress and timing.
There will also be five compulsory online sessions with the cohort of participating organisations to provide an opportunity to connect and share experiences and knowledge and hear from industry experts.
This residency is designed to be delivered online with potential for hybrid delivery, involving a combination of in-person and online sessions with your specialist via negotiation.
Individuals can apply via our online application system. If you have access requirements, please get in touch so we can assist you.
This opportunity is open to organisations.
An ‘organisation’ is a legally constituted organisation that is registered or created by law. For example, incorporated associations, companies limited by guarantee or government statutory authorities are all defined as organisations.
Your application will be assessed as per the selection criteria. The program is designed to bring together a diverse range of applicants from organisations around the country and we work to ensure a balance between geographic locations and artforms. This will be considered in the assessment process.
The program requires you to identify a minimum of two Digital Champions (one in a leadership position) from your organisation to lead the residency. Consider staff who have the ability to lead your team and enact the recommendations or opportunities that may arise. It is important to get buy-in across your organisation, so consider representatives from different teams.
This program provides $3000 seed funding to assist in prototyping or piloting your digitally led project. These funds will be granted after a successful pitch of your project, during the course of the program. Successful applicants will be given detailed instructions on this process.
The application form asks: “What are some digital projects you would like to explore during the residence?” If successful, your Digital Specialist will provide support in ideating your digitally led project, so suggested ideas are sufficient for the application.
You do not need to supply a budget with your application.
You will be required to complete an acquittal report at the conclusion of the program.
Please send an email to digital@creative.gov.au if you would like to discuss your eligibility or application.
Space to Create is an intensive music industry residential program. The delivery of the program will be flexible and adapted to each of the participants’ requirements. The aim of the program is to create a dedicated space so each of the participants can take the time to sustain and grow creative ideas including composition, voice coaching, strengthen technical skills and to provide professional development opportunities for the future.
The program is open to emerging through to established First Nations musicians, artists, songwriters, audio engineers, producers and those employed in the music industry. The program will be delivered in partnership with the Australian National University’s School of Music and the Yil Lull recording studio.
‘The studio is named after the song Yil Lull by legendary First Nations musician Joe Geia, to honour his standing in the industry, and is used with his permission.’
Space to Create will provide:
‘The studio is named after the song Yil Lull by legendary First Nations musician Joe Geia, to honour his standing in the industry, and is used with his permission.’
Situated on Ngunnawal-Ngambri country in the heart of the nation’s capital, and on the campus of Australia’s foremost research university, the School of Music at ANU has a proud and rich history. For nearly 50 years the school has played a leading role in the cultural life of Canberra and the surrounding region.
It is home to the Yil Lull Studio, which offers free recording and music assistance to First Nations musicians from across Australia. Established in 2021, the studio is led by Torres Strait Islander musician Will Kepa. Will’s vision for the studio is to be “a place for us, our mob, to come and meet; to create and to share; to expand on our stories; to keep our culture alive and our music alive; and to just keep that fire burning”.
To apply log in here to our Application Management System (AMS) if you have an account. You can create an account if you do not already have one.
Once you have logged in, follow the next steps:
What can be applied for
To apply, you will need to provide details of your project and what you would like to achieve through the Space to Create program.
Projects can include:
This opportunity is only open to:
The First Nations Arts and Culture Strategy Panel will review applications against the assessment criteria.
Under each criterion are bullet points indicating what peers may consider when assessing your application. You do not need to respond to every bullet point listed.
1. The cultural integrity of the project
The Panel will assess the cultural integrity of the project. They may consider:
2. The skills and strengths of individuals involved in the activity
The Panel will assess the skills and strengths of individuals involved in the activity. They may consider:
3. The benefits of the activity for the individuals
The Panel will assess the benefits of the activity for the individuals. They may consider:
The application form asks you to:
The types of questions we ask in the application form include:
You should submit support material with your application. The panel may review this support material to help them gain a better sense of your project.
We do not accept application-related support material submitted via post. Application-related material received by post will not be assessed and will be returned to the sender. If you think you will have difficulty submitting your support material online, or need advice on what type of material to submit, please contact us.
There are four types of support material you may submit:
This should include relevant, recent examples of your artistic or cultural work.
Types of support material we accept
Our preferred method of receiving support material is via URLs (weblinks).
You can provide up to three URLs (weblinks) that link to content that is relevant to your proposal. This may include video, audio, images, or written material.
These URLs can include a total of:
Please note: Our panel will not access any URLs that require them to log in or sign up to a platform. Please do not provide links to Spotify or other applications that require users to log in or pay for access.
If you are linking to media files that are private or password protected like Vimeo, please provide the password in the password field on the application form.
Other accepted file formats
If you cannot supply support material via URLs, you may upload support material to your application in the following formats:
You can include a brief bio or curriculum vitae (CV) for key artists, personnel or other collaborators involved in your project.
Brief bios or CV information should be presented as a single document no longer than two A4 pages in total.
Individuals, groups, or organisations can write letters in support of your project. A support letter should explain how the project or activity will benefit you, other artists or arts professionals, participants, or the broader community. It can also detail the support or involvement of key project partners, or evidence of consultation.
If relevant to your activity, letters of support must provide evidence of appropriate permissions and support from First Nations organisations, communities, and Elders. Please refer to the First Nations Protocols for more information.
You can include up to five letters of support, with each letter not exceeding one A4 page.
In partnership with Creative Australia, Kluge-Ruhe is offering a residential fellowship in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
The fellow will curate an exhibition of recent and promised gifts of acrylic paintings on canvas by Pila Nguru (Spinifex People) from Western Australia produced between 2001-2021. Pila Nguru people left their ancestral homelands when the British began nuclear testing in the Australian desert. They began painting in 1997 as part of their Native Title claim involving the return of their homelands. Kluge-Ruhe’s collection contains works by such leading artists as Lawrence Pennington, Tjaruwa Woods and Patju Presley.
This fellowship is divided into two residential periods totalling six months with a holiday break in December-January. Research and development will take place over four months between mid-August and mid-December 2024. The fellow will return to Charlottesville for two months in February and March 2025 to oversee installation and implement programs associated with the exhibition.
This schedule aligns with the semesters at the University of Virginia, ensuring that the fellow has access to museum curators, staff, and academic partners throughout the residency. It also allows production time for didactics and the printed catalogue prior to the exhibition opening. The precise timing of the fellowship will be negotiated with the successful applicant and some flexibility is possible.
The residency will coincide with activities at Kluge-Ruhe including an artist residency (August 2024) and the opening of the major touring exhibition Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala at the Asia Society in New York (September 2024). Each of these programs will provide opportunities for the fellow to engage with Indigenous Australian artists visiting the USA.
Kluge-Ruhe held a Q&A information session at 11am AEDT on Tuesday 31 October 2023 for people to learn more about the Fellowship. You can view a recording of that session on YouTube here.
Tasks will include research of objects, preparation of didactics, development of an original 1500-2000 word essay to be printed in an exhibition catalogue, content development and implementation of public programs, including web-based programs, and gallery guide training.
The curator’s responsibilities will include the following:
Month 1: Conduct research, develop curatorial rationale and learning goals for the exhibition
Month 2: Create checklist and arrangement, select wall colours, draft texts and labels
Month 3: Draft essay, finalize texts and labels, plan public programs
Month 4: Finalize essay, write press release and media blurbs
Month 5: Supervise installation, train gallery guides
Month 6: Implement public programs
The fellow will work collaboratively with Kluge-Ruhe’s staff on all aspects of the exhibition and associated programs, contributing to and shaping practices that will accelerate First Nations leadership throughout the museum, a key initiative of Kluge-Ruhe’s Strategic Plan 2021-2026.
In addition, the fellow will consult with the Embassy of Australia’s curatorial team during a three-day visit to Washington D.C.
A stipend of up to $60,000 AUD will be paid to the fellow by Creative Australia, a portion of which can also be used towards fees to engage a mentor for the duration of the fellowship. Program costs covered by Kluge-Ruhe include two round trip flights from Australia to Charlottesville, accommodation in a furnished cottage or apartment throughout the residency, vehicle rental, medical insurance, and a research and travel budget of up to $5,000 AUD that can be used by the fellow for professional development.
Professional development funds may be used at the fellow’s discretion. Fellows are encouraged to take full advantage of their residential experience in the United States to explore other museums and build professional networks or to pursue their own research interests. Funds may be used to attend conferences such as the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums, or the American Anthropological Association.
Dr Jessyca Hutchens is a Palyku woman living and working on Noongar boodja, and a Lecturer at the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. Jessyca is an art historian, curator, and writer who has previously held positions as the Curator at the Berndt Museum, the Curatorial Assistant to the Artistic Director for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and as a Lecturer in Global Art History at the University of Birmingham. She is currently working on a project on the histories of Australian Indigenous printmaking and was recently a co-curator of the exhibition Black Sky for the 2023 Perth Festival. Jessyca writes regularly on contemporary art, and is a co-founder and editor of an online journal of artistic research, oarplatform.com, and on the editorial committee of Un Magazine.
Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries is an online short course designed specifically for artists and arts and creative workers it is best suited for those with a beginner or intermediate understanding of the digital space as it relates to the creative industries.
Developed and delivered in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), this six-week course will give you an insight into key digital concepts, modes of digital practice, emergent technologies and also introduce ideas around digital strategy and business model innovation.
As a leading Australian university and a top-ranked university in Australia, UTS is home to industry-connected educators and researchers who are leaders in their creative fields, and passionate about organisational and individual skills development and uplift.
Curated by arts and cultural practitioners, Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries is specifically designed for artists and creative practitioners, arts administrators, managers, and directors working, whether independent, or from organisations large or small who want to begin to understand digital practice and strategy.
You will join a cohort of industry peers and colleagues working in different artforms across Australia to understand, explore and shape your thinking around digital. Key topics include:
This six-week course requires a commitment of up to four hours a week, and is a combination of facilitated sessions, online group learning and self-directed activities that can be directly applied to your existing work and practice.
This course is for artists and creative practitioners, arts administrators, managers, and directors working in organisations or independently in the arts and creative industry. Participants will work in a range of artforms around Australia.
The Australia Council encourages applications from people who identify as First Nations, from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability and people living in regional and remote areas.
This course is digitally accessible and follows the AAA standards. Please get in touch if you have any specific access requirements.
Applications for subsidised positions in the first three cohorts closed on Tuesday 2 August.
Applications for subsidised positions in the first three cohorts closed on Tuesday 7 February, 3pm (AEST).
The course will run for six weeks, beginning with an introductory session the week prior to commencement. Five cohorts of participants will be accepted in the March – June 2023 sessions:
Positions in the first three rounds of the Digital Transformation for the Creative Industries course are subsidised as part of the Digital Culture Program.
Tiered subsidies are available to support access for a diversity of participants:
If your subsidy application is unsuccessful, you can choose to pay the course fee in full. The overall course fee is $675 (ex GST).
Subsidised positions are limited. Subsidy applications will be assessed to ensure an equitable spread of participants across artform, location and priority areas.
If your application is successful, we will contact you with payment and onboarding information.
Please complete the online application form to select your preferred course dates, and apply for a subsidy (if eligible).
If your application is successful, we will contact you for payment details and pass on your details to UTS for enrolment.
This course is designed to support arts and creative practitioners to embrace a digital mindset and to enable digital innovation within the sector.
The course is delivered in partnership with University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and will draw on expert knowledge and experience to build the digital literacy and capacity of the creative industries.
Through the ‘Digital Transformation for Creative Industries’ course, participants will:
The course will be facilitated by leading creatives and academics from the UTS team, with a range of guest speakers and facilitators from across artforms and across Australia.
This course is for artists and creative practitioners, arts administrators, managers, and directors working in organisations or independently in the arts and creative industry. Participants will work in a range of artforms around Australia.
best suited for those with a beginner or intermediate understanding of the digital space as it relates to the creative industries. There is not a requirement for an existing high-level of technological skills or understanding to undertake the course. The course will focus on digital mindsets, literacy and strategic development.
The course is six weeks and requires up to four hours of your time each week.
The course includes self-directed reading, activities and online content as well as one hour of group learning and discussion with a facilitator every week.
The course is delivered on UTS online learning platform Canvas. Details of how to access, use and navigate the platform will be provided on enrolment.
For any questions or further information about the Digital Culture Program please email digitalarts@creative.gov.au or call 02 9215 9036.
To apply, you will need to answer the following questions:
A problem can be a time-consuming task, a breakdown in process or an expensive way of doing something simple. If you’ve ever thought “there has to be a simpler or better way” you’ve identified a problem.
This residency is designed to be delivered online. Over 12 weekly 2 hour sessions, (Wednesday 5pm-7pm) and with access to 2 additional hours per week to work with mentors and Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
This program is for arts-aligned/creative industries individuals and organisations who have an idea for a digital product, have found a solution to a problem or see a gap in the market that they can fill. Product ideas may include as plug-ins, media players, immersive VR/AR experiences, apps, platforms and programs, that originated out of, or support the creative industries.
Not all participants in the program may end up taking their product to market after exploring the viability of the project through the program, however all participants will leave the program with new skills in product development, entrepreneurship and business, which they can take to their next project.
This program will be delivered online.
Please email digital@creative.gov.au if you would like more information.
