Alumni peer assessors

Creative Australia’s peer alumni are a growing group of over 1700 peer assessors who have worked with us from 2014 onwards.

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Our alumni peer assessors continue to offer us valuable insight into the sector and help us to identify future peer assessors. We send our alumni an email newsletter twice a year, the newsletter includes updates about our latest resources, highlights about grant activity and success stories, and anything else we think might be of interest.

At times we ask our alumni to be industry advisors on grants or initiatives. We invite alumni to outreach events when we visit different cities and towns around the country, allowing us to connect in person and introduce past, present, and future peers to each other.

If you are a peer alumnus but not currently on our mailing list, please get in contact assessment@creative.gov.au. Remember to keep contact details up to date in our application management system to continue to receive our email newsletter. Log into the Application Management System.

Watch this space – we will be adding more to this page in the future.

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‘Each of the peers bring something unique to the conversation and all are ready to listen and respond respectfully. It’s not accidental that you are selected to be a peer on the panel. You are there because you have been selected for your knowledge and experience, so it is important to share this with the others.’

Mouna Zaylah · multi-art form and community arts and cultural development peer, NSW.

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Visiting International Publishers at Glebebooks. Photographer: Joseph Mayers.

Resources for assessors

Welcome aboard peer assessors and industry advisors. On this page you will find key information and resources to help you in your work as an assessor.

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Second Line Street Party, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2023<br>Photo by Wil Hamilton-Coates

Become an assessor

We need assessors who understand all parts of the creative process – from people who make work and coordinate tours and exhibitions, to arts workers who develop new markets and engage with audiences and communities.

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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