Workplace giving

We are pleased to celebrate the collaboration between Creative Australia, its staff and Australian artists in our Workplace Giving initiative.

We are proud of the growing number of employees who have decided to participate in this program, by making regular gifts directly from their pre-tax salaries in support of a thriving Australian arts sector.

Creative Australia matches employee contributions, raising up to $20,000 per annum to provide important investment in the early careers of Australian artists.

In 2024, Creative Australia and its employees supported the creation of a second National Arts and Disability Early Career Artist Award. These awards were presented to the recipients, Patrick Carter and Riana Head-Toussaint, as part of the Creative Australia Awards in November 2024. We are delighted to continue to support this award category in 2025.

This generous group of employees join a national community who deeply appreciate the transformational role of both artists and of philanthropy to affect positive social change. We are grateful for the collective support in this philanthropic endeavour, driven by our Workplace Giving participants’ desire for impact.

We thank all employees who generously contribute to Workplace Giving at Creative Australia in support of a thriving arts and cultural sector.

2025 Donor Honour Roll

Tim Blackwell		Darren Kirwood
James Boyd		Hannah Kothe
Michelle Boyle		Tim Mall
Michelle Brown		Jayne Lovelock
Monique Choy		Dr Margaret Mayhew
Tammy Close		Yvette Menezes
Adrian Collette AM		Gillian Mercer
Christen Cornell		Matt Morse
Diego Cruz		Alice Nash
Alexandra Dimos		Kate Schaffner
Chiara Gabrielli		Courtney Stewart
Matthew Higgins		Kitty Taylor
Nick Jarvis

“

‘Music and art have always been important to me, so I was happy to donate to workplace giving to help the career of an artist.’

Workplace donor Diego Cruz · Marketing and Brand Manager

Workplace Giving at Creative Australia has supported the following artists

Patrick William Carter: 2024 National Arts & Disability Early Career Artist Award

Patrick Carter is a Noongar man and interdisciplinary artist who combines performance, movement, video, sound and painting to create his stories and songs. Family is a driving theme, and his work features many motifs drawn from his Noongar culture. As a First Nations person with disability, Carter has faced many challenges to access his culture and learning. He has spent significant periods in institutional care and has experienced the systemic barriers to cultural practice that are shared by First Nations people across Australia.

Riana Head-Toussaint: 2024 National Arts & Disability Early Career Artist Award

Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary crip/disabled artist, DJ, and curator of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Her work lies at the intersection of creative expression, activism, cultural exchange and disability justice.

Her practice spans choreography, video/film, sound design, writing, and installation, challenging entrenched structures and advocating for social change. Riana’s work has appeared in carparks, post-industrial ruins, galleries, theatres and online, supported by institutions including Human Rights Watch, AGNSW, Opera House, Buxton Contemporary, Carriageworks and the British Council. She is the founder of CRIP RAVE THEORY, a club night outside the club drawing on intersectional disabled knowledge to create more accessible rave/party spaces.