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Workplace giving

Our employees are passionate about Australian arts and creativity. It’s part of our culture.

We are pleased to celebrate the collaboration between Creative Australia, its staff and Australian artists in our 2024 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.

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.

2024 Donor Honour Roll

Tim Blackwell Darren Kirwood
James Boyd Hannah Kothe
Michelle Boyle Jayne Lovelock
Michelle Brown Yvette Menezes
Judith Butler Gillian Mercer
Tammy Close Matt Morse
Adrian Collette AM Alice Nash
Christen Cornell Kate Schaffner
Diego Cruz Nick Jarvis
Matthew Higgins  

 

‘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
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Contact us

If you or your company would like to support the careers of Australian artists and arts workers, please contact Co-Investment.

Phone:

+61 2 9215 9067

Email:

coinvestment@creative.gov.au

Workplace Giving at Creative Australia has supported the following artists

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

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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

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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.

Dean Brady: 2023 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Dean Brady - recipient of the 2023 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Emily Wells: 2023 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Emily Wells - recipient of the Emerging Career Development Award 2023

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Brodie Murray: 2022 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Brodie Murray - recipient of the First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Hayden Ryan: 2022 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Hayden Ryan - recipient of the First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Jazz Money: 2021 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Bila, A River Cycle | Jazz Money | TEDxSydney

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Justin Grant: 2021 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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First Nations Arts Awards 2021 Winner Justin Grant

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Rhyan Clapham AKA DOBBY: 2020 First Nations Emerging Career Development Award

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Acknowledgements: First Nations Arts Awards 2020

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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 through this website to share knowledge, culture and art now, and with future generations.

First Nations Peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have died.

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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