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The Amplify Creative Fellowships provide unrestricted, tax-free grants of $200,000 over two years to individual Australian artists, creatives, and cultural leaders. Specific outcomes for the Fellowships are not required. 

Nomination and selection process

Nominations are welcome for individual artists, creators, and cultural leaders throughout the spectrum of the arts, from visual and performing to interdisciplinary, new media, literature, and the humanities. 

All nominations must be submitted through the Sidney Myer Fund's SmartyGrants portal. 

Nominations that are recommended by an industry advisory panel form the basis of a shortlist, from which the Sidney Myer Fund’s Arts & Culture Committee then recommends recipients. These recipients will register via the Australian Cultural Fund to receive their fellowship payments

To apply for an Amplify Creative Fellowship, applicants must be nominated by a third-party individual.

Nominations are welcome for artists, creators and cultural leaders across the entire spectrum of the arts and humanities.

In the online nomination form, applicants must also include:

• No more than five items of support material. This includes audio and/or visual files, support letters, and an artist CV of no more than two pages.
• Two referees who are not the nominator.

To be eligible for Amplify Creative Fellowships, an applicant must:

• Be a minimum of 18 years old.
• Be an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia.
• Be at least seven years into their creative practice.
• Primarily reside in Australia for the two years of their Fellowship.

Nominations are reviewed by a national panel of industry advisors with consideration to two criteria: 

• Outstanding talent
• Exceptional courage 

Specifically, this talent and courage relate to the nominee's creative practice (commonly illustrated through artistic challenges, daring innovation, breaking new ground, and redefining the possible) and not to surmounting hardships. 

For more information on the nomination process and selection criteria, visit the Sidney Myer Fund website.

Amplify

Amplify is a program of the Australian Cultural Fund that provides administrative and operational capacity building support to Australia’s PAF sector to assist in distributing funds to the arts and cultural sector.

Amplify allows PAFs to provide support for individual artists and organisations, allowing PAFs to direct funds where they are needed most within the arts and cultural sector.

Amplify provides a system to ease the administrative grant-making load on PAFs engaged in arts funding, allowing PAFs to utilise best-practice processes without needing to develop them from the ground-up.

australianculturalfund.org.au/amplify/ 

The Australian Cultural Fund is operated by Creative Australia, ABN 38 392 626 187, and has endorsement as a deductible gift recipient (DGR) confirmed by the Australian Tax Office.