• These awards are for practicing artists who identify as d/Deaf and/or a person with disability.
• Artists cannot nominate themselves. Someone else must nominate them.
• The artist nominated must be an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident.
• An artist can be nominated if they have previously won a Creative Australia Award for a particular artform, or a First Nations Arts and Culture Award.
• You must have the artist’s permission to share their personal information with us. 

Submit your nomination using our Application Management System. If you do not have an account, register first. It can take up to 2 business days for your registration to be approved. 

If you need help using the system, read the “Making a Grant Application” guide on the Creative Australia website. 

You can nominate more than one artist. You must fill out a separate form for each artist. 

Once you have logged in: 

1. Select ‘Submit a Nomination’ from the left panel menu.
2. Under ‘Awards’ select ‘Start a new award nomination’.
3. Ensure you select the correct award from the list of options.
4. Complete the fields and select answers using the dropdown menus.
5. Upload any necessary support material.
6. Select ‘Save’ once complete.
7. If you are not ready to submit your nomination you can return to it through ‘Your Draft Applications’ in the left panel menu.
8. When you are ready to submit your nomination, select ‘Submit’. 

You must submit a CV or extended bio for the nominee (approx. 2 x A4 pages, or a link to a CV or bio on the nominee’s website). 

You may submit up to two letters or statements of support (approx. 2 x A4 pages, or up to 5 minutes of audio / video). 

Types of support material we accept 

Our preferred method of receiving support material is via URLs (weblinks). 

You can provide up to two URLs that link to content that is relevant to your nomination. 

Please note: 

• Do not supply any URLs that require users to log in or sign up to a platform.
• Do not provide links to applications that require users to log in or pay for access.
• If you are linking to media files that are private or password protected, please provide the password in the password field on the nomination form. 

Other accepted file formats 

If you cannot supply support material via URLs, you may upload support material to your nomination in other formats, for example: 

• video (MP4 and Windows Media)
• audio (MP3 and Windows Media)
• images (JPEG and PowerPoint)
• written material (Word and PDF). 

We do not accept application-related support material submitted via post unless you have contacted us in advance to discuss your access needs. Please contact Artists Services if you have any questions about how to provide support material:

Phone: 02 9215 9000 

Toll free: 1800 226 912 

NRS: 1800 555 677 (National Relay Service) 
 

Email: enquiries@creative.gov.au 

Web form: Contact us

Uncle Paul Constable-Calcott (Established Award)

Uncle Paul Constable-Calcott is an artist, an advocate for people living with disability and someone who strives to bring social change to benefit particularly First Nations people living with disability. Surviving Polio as a child and inspired by his parents, he sees disability as providing opportunity to tell a story of resilience. Uncle Paul brings this together with a lifelong involvement in visual arts, to advocate for people living with disability and support them to find their community and ways of expressing their own stories of survival and strength, often using the visual arts to provide a cultural platform. 

Honor Eastly (Early Career Award)

Honor Eastly is an award-winning artist and mental health advocate whose work challenges stigma and reimagines how we talk about psychological distress. Her acclaimed ABC podcast No Feeling Is Final—an experimental memoir about her own experiences of chronic suicidality—was praised by The New York Times, The Atlantic, and TIME, and named an Apple Podcasts “Series Essential.” She later adapted it into a sold-out multimedia performance for The Big Anxiety Festival. Honor co-founded The Big Feels Club, which has reached over one million people, helping individuals and workplaces better support people with long-term mental health conditions. She won the Australian Mental Health Prize for her advocacy and creative work. 

Yousef Alreemawi (Early Career Award)

A multi-disciplinary Palestinian-Australian artist whose practice spans music, cultural education, translation, community work, and disability advocacy. He is founder of the Tarab Ensemble, dedicated to the rich tradition of instrumental Arabic music. Known for his deep community engagement and mentorship of young artists, his practice sits at the intersection of culture, disability and identity. His work is grounded in collaboration and cultural exchange, bringing together artists and audiences across different musical traditions and lived experiences.