Funding decisions

Creative Partnerships Australia's funding programs are supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.

MATCH LAB funding decisions

Our MATCH LAB program provides funding to independent artists to create new work, attract new donors, build relationships and boost their fundraising skills, by matching donations raised through fundraising campaigns.

Funding recipients for 2020/2021

In 2020/21 we offered 36 artists in-principle funding. In February 2021, these artists will attend our Raising Money for your Art clinic, and develop a fundraising campaign to raise money for a project of their choice.

• Alana Holmberg (VIC)
  Porch Diaries
• Anni Hagberg (VIC)
  Buying My First Kiln
• Bridie Hooper (QLD)
  Ingress
• Brodie Rowlands (VIC)
  Fight Club
• Brooke Leeder (WA)
  Nocturnal
• Catarina Hebbard (QLD)
  Queensland premiere of Anatomy of A Suicide by Alice Birch
• Chris Luscri (VIC)
  HOME SCREEN
• Donna McRae (VIC)
  Dawn
• Eliza Sanders (NSW)
  That Was Friday - premiere season of new performance work
• Esther Van Doornum (VIC)
  WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING
• Esther Takac (VIC)
  The Narrow Bridge (previously called We don't want you here)
• Fiona Stafford (VIC)
  “HEARTH”, a new play by Fleur Murphy.
• Georgia Scott (NSW)
  Seidler Diaries 3rd of September 1940
• Hannah Rohrlach (SA)
  Future Foods - Educational Stream
• Hannah Friebel (VIC)
  Sincerely Survivor
• Jeremy Rose (NSW)
  Disruption! EPK and video
• Julian Tynan (NSW)
  HOW TO DISAPPEAR
• Justin Nott (VIC)
  Variations On Existence: Creative Development
• Kate Harman (QLD)
  16 (working title)
• Luke Graham (QLD)
  Sharko. Embrace the Future.
• Matthew Grant (VIC)
  Cremorne Pleasure Cardens
• Merinda Davies (QLD)
  Conversations with the Forest
• Michael Grebla (WA)
  Michael Grebla Australian Composition Tour
• Natalie Gauci (QLD)
  Pictures of Mars
• Paul Castles (NSW)
  Mind Mouth Memory
• Paulina Quinteros (NSW)
  DOMUS
• Robert Nairn (SA)
  'Seidler Diaries' Duos for Viola and Double Bass
• Rohan Cannon (NSW)
  Songs from The Wayside
• Sally Richardson (WA)
  FOR JULIA
• Shirin Majd (QLD)
  Stolen Identity
• Steven Kreamer (NSW)
  Phar Lap: The Musical - Workshop Development
• Texta Queen (VIC)
  TheySwarm development
• Thomas Marlin (SA)
  Duo Rasa in Uraidla
• Tiina Alinen and Annalouise Paul (QLD & NSW) (National)
  JOURNEY: A national platform for danceworks that showcase our migration narratives and living traditions
• Vladimir Fanshil (NSW)
  LIVEATYOURS

Funding Recipients for 2019/2020

In 2019/20 we offered 25 artists in-principle funding. In November 2019, these artists will attend our Raising Money for your Art clinic, and develop a fundraising campaign to raise money for a project of their choice.

• Adriano Cappelletta (NSW)
  Never Let Me Go
• Alison Bennett Taylor (WA)
  Because of You...
• Alison Currie (SA)
  New works by Alison Currie
• Brett Brown (NSW)
  Brett Brown - Debut Album
• Carly Young (TAS)
  Coil
• Claire Cross (VIC)
  YoWo Music Fundraiser Gig
• David Mealor (SA)
  Program of Activities 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
• Hannah Illingworth (NT)
  From the Fringes
• Jacqueline Marshall (QLD)
  Heart I Love You
• James Batchelor (ACT)
  Cosmic Ballroom
• Janine Kaiser (VIC)
  The Best Noodles on Fawke Street
• Kate Lefoe (VIC)
  Wicked Women: a Queer short film
• Dr Kenji Fujimura (VIC)
  The Reissiger Project
• Linda Klarfeld (QLD)
  Millennium Women Melbourne Tour
• Matthias Schack-Arnott (VIC)
  Cyclo - Debut Solo Album
• Mike Barry (NSW)
  Action Tank Book 2
• Rebecca Mayo (ACT)
  RUMPUS 2020 Season
• Sally Ingleton (NT)
  WILD THINGS
• Sarah Hadley (NSW)
  Akrasia
• Sarah Emery (NSW)
  Real Bright Hard
• Sharnya Thomson Yates (SA)
  Choice
• Susie Dee (VIC)
  SHIT
• Tarah Carey (VIC)
  Gravity Dolls Creative Space
• Travis Dewan (QLD)
  Developing BNE ART - Brisbane Art Guide

Funding recipients for 2018/2019

In 2018/19 we offered 26 artists in-principle funding. In November 2018, these artists will attend our Raising Money for your Art clinic, and develop a fundraising campaign to raise money for a project of their choice.

• Andrea Foxworthy (VIC) - $10,000
  Brazen Hussies – footage and photograph research
• Anna Houston (NSW) - $10,000
  Production of Cyprus Avenue at the Old Fitz Theatre in 2019
• Danielle Loy (NT) - $10,000
  ILYAWE (Take it Down) STAGE ONE
• Elise Greig (QLD) - $8,290
  Magpie
• Frankie Snowdon & Madeleine Krenek (NT) - $10,000
  The Perception Experiment Tour
• Grace Herbert & Theia Connell (TAS) - $5,000
  Visual Bulk 2019 Activities
• Katrina Cornwell (VIC) - $4,000
  Riot Stage Youth Ensemble
• Kristen Maloney (QLD) - $6,600
  Boys Taste Better with Nutella
• Laura Imbruglia (VIC) - $7,500
  Scared of You album fundraising
• Laura Vaughan & Julia Fredersdorff (VIC) - $9,996
  Latitude 37 2019 subscription series and touring schedule
• Lesley Branagan (NSW) - $7,000
  Brides of Aravan
• L.J.M Owen (TAS) - $10,000
  Pilot of a Huon Valley readers’ and writers’ festival
• Martin Ingle, Megan Bartholomew & Angela Peita (QLD) - $4,820
  Ruckus Fest
• Matt Keegan (NSW) - $10,000
  The Three Seas
• Matt Withers (ACT) - $6,204
  Guitar Trek and the promotion of new Australian music
• Michael Clarkin (SA) - $10,000
  The Boy Soldier
• Nasim Khosravi (QLD) - $10,000
  ‘Tower of Babel’ by Baran Theatre Group
• Natalie Verriest (NSW) - $7,000
  PARADIGM/SHIFT: A Solo Exhibition by Natalie Verriest
• Raelke Grimmer (NT) - $9,787
  Borderlands Project
• Ryan Marano (WA) - $6,000
  The 7 Ages of wo(Man)
• Suzie Wyllie (VIC) - $10,000
  Lighthouse Arts Collective: Inspiring Artistic Experiences
• Tomás Ford (WA) - $10,000
  Normal Place. A Record Label For The Fringe Of The Fringe
• Tricia-Lyn Morosin (NSW) - $10,000
  THIRTY Season 2
• William Zappa (NSW) - $10,000
  The Iliad Out Loud
• Yasmin Gurreeboo (SA) - $5,000
  Yerma

Funding recipients for 2017/2018

In 2017/18, 25 artists participated in our MATCH Lab program. They attended our Raising Money for your Art clinic in early 2018 and ran a fundraising campaign to raise money for a project of their choice. We granted 24 participants $181,817 in matched funding.

• Abbie Madden (VIC) - $2,602
  My Sight - Their Sight
• Anthony Christou (SA) - $10,000
  Luminous Ages Graphic Novel Series
• Benjamin Skepper (VIC) - $10,000
  Symphony Of Beats
• Carl Firth (NSW) - $10,000
  The Immortal
• Dawn Jackson (WA) - $9,551
  Hush
• Georgia Stanley (SA) - $10,000
  Welcome the Bright World
• Glen Murray (TAS) - $5,732
  Babel Tour 2018
• Hugh Crosthwaite (VIC) - $9,000
  Cassandra
• Justin Beere (VIC) - $5,810
  Melbourne Chamber Players - 2018 Season
• Lewis Major (SA) - $10,000
  Artist Residency
• Mitchell Turnbull (NSW) - $8,107
  Here After
• Monica Zanetti (NSW) - $10,000
  Ellie, Abbie & Ellie's Dead Aunt - Feature Film
• Natasha Phillips (VIC) - $3,000
  RESTORE by Renae Shadler
• Paul Andersen (VIC) - $10,000
  NEWCOMERS
• Perri Cummings (VIC) - $7,500
  Clutch
• Rafael Karlen (QLD) - $3,295
  Arrivals and Prospects
• Rihab Charida (NSW) - $10,000
  A Disturbed Earth
• Ruth Blythman (VIC) - $5,000
  Silver Rain: International Premiere
• Seanna Van Helten (VIC) - $7,000
  Fallen
• Stuart McMillen (ACT) - $10,000
  Ballot Box Comics 2018
• Stuart Rose (SA) - $10,000
  International Tour and Mentorship 2019
• Will McBride (VIC) - $4,500
  Lady Example
• Zubin Kanga (NSW) - $10,000
  Piano Ex Machina

Funding recipients for 2016/2017

In 2016/17, 25 artists participated in MATCH Lab. These artists completed our Raising Money for your Art clinic in May 2017 and 23 of these artists ran successful fundraising campaigns to raise money for a project of their choice. We granted $216,583 in matched funding to 23 artists around Australia.

• Alicia Cush, Little Black Dress Creatives (QLD) - $10,000
  The Owl & the Pussycat - An opera for children
• Ashleigh Flanders, Sisters Grimm (VIC) - $10,000
  Lilith: The Jungle Girl
• Candy Bowers, Black Honey Company (QLD) - $10,000
  One The Bear- Outreach & Education
• CJ Fraser-Bell, Darwin Fringe Festival (NT) - $10,000
  The 2017 Darwin Fringe Festival
• Damien Butler (NSW) - $10,000
  Manufactured Landscapes
• Gail Evans, Knock-Em-Down Theatre (QLD) - $8,874
  God's Waiting Room
• Harriet O’Shannessy (WA) - $10,000
  Freeze Frame Opera presents Die Fledermaus
• Heath Cullen (NSW) - $10,000
  New Album
• Helen Thompson, Sequenza (TAS) - $8,000
  All About the Bass
• Jonathan Morgan, One Fell Swoop Circus (VIC) - $10,000
  By a Thread Creative Development and Presentation
• Jordan Cowan (SA) - $10,000
  Mutt Short Film
• Julian Jaensch, Company AT (SA) - $10,000
  Impersonal Space
• Julien Poulson, The Cambodian Space Project (TAS) - $10,000
  Yesterday, Once More
• Kaylie Melville, Rubiks Collective (VIC) - $4,000
  75 Years: A Portrait of Meredith Monk
• Kelly Drummond Cawthorn, Second Echo Ensemble (TAS) - $10,000
  100 Colours of Culture
• Louise Howlett, ReAction Theatre (VIC) - $10,000
  Les Mystères du Louvre
• Neil Hobbs, Harris Hobbs Public Projects (ACT) - $10,000
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• Pearl Tan (NSW) - $10,000
  The Casting Game
• Rachel Shaw, Arcadia Winds (VIC) - $10,000
  Mister Bird
• Robyn Wilson, Flutter Lyon (NSW) - $10,000
  Public Ink-Pressing Kits
• Ross Thompson (WA) - $10,000
  Creative Development of Text and Music for "The Martyrdom of Hypatia and the Destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria".
• Sarah Aiken (VIC) - $7,583
  Tools for personal expansion
• Stephen Kok (NSW) - $8,000
  WordSmith

Funding recipients for 2015/2016

We provided over $273,000 for 42 artists and arts groups in the 2015/2016 round of MATCH

• Adam Fawcett, Lab Kelpie (VIC) - $7,000
  Spencer by Katy Warner
• Adriane Hayward, Off Grid (VIC) - $3,600
  Curated group exhibition at BLINDSIDE gallery
• Ana Tiwary, IndiVisual films (NSW) - $10,000
  Blueberry Revolution – documentary
• Anna Kennedy, She Said Theatre (VIC) - $5,000
  HART by Ian Michael
• Anne-Louise Rentell, Theatre of Rhythm and Dance and Pepa Molina and Company (NSW) - $7,800
  Flamenco NOW
• Benjamin Roberts, Tiny Bricks (SA) - $10,000
  Deluge by Phillip Kavanagh
• Damien Lipp, BarrLipp Productions (VIC) - $10,000
  Watch the Sunset
• Ensemble Liaison Inc. (VIC) - $5,000
  Ensemble Liaison with Nemanja Radulović
• Eugene Gaffney, Spacebetweenthegaps Foundation (VIC) - $10,000
  THE GOOD DEED
• Gareth Hart (VIC) - $4,000
  hillsceneLIVE
• Georgina Luck (VIC) - $6,731
  The Last Babushka Doll
• Grayson Cooke, Grayson Cooke and Dea Morgain (NSW) - $10,000
  UNSETTLED
• Gregory Crocetti, Scale Free Network Art-Science Collaborative (VIC) - $8,650
  The Invisible War: a tale told on two scales
• Ian Sinclair, Pony Express (WA) - $4,000
  Ecosexual Bathhouse
• Jennifer Duck-Chong, Halcyon (NSW) - $10,000
  2016 Recording Projects
• Jodee Mundy, Jodee Mundy Collaborations (VIC) - $12,026
  Imagined Touch
• Karen Revie (TAS) - $10,000
  #MATCHSTICK
• Katherine Lyall-Watson (QLD) - $5,000
  Hanako
• Katie Eagles, Cheeseagle (VIC) - $8,000
  Happyland: Heroes and Housing
• Katrina Cornwell, Riot Stage Youth Theatre (VIC) - $4,000
  Spring Awakening
• Kim Anderson (VIC) - $2,000
  DRAWinternational: Dream Residency
• Kristy Schubert, Creativate NT (NT) - $4,500
  Get "The Package" Ready to Post!
• Liam James (TAS) - $4,000
  Something Less
• Lisa Cheney, Making Waves (VIC) - $4,740
  Making Conversation: Australian Composers' Project
• Lizzie Schebesta, WITS - Women In Theatre and Screen (NSW) - $10,000
  FESTIVAL FATALE
• Louise Rippert (VIC) - $5,000
  nakes and Ladders - Animal Adaptation
• Melissa Doecke, Inventi Ensemble (VIC) - $4,000
  ea & Classics and Concert Classics
• Mike Hill and Sue Collins, Moonshine Movies (VIC) - $10,000
  A Stitch In Time
• Naomi Johnson (NSW) - $1,540
  Blackbird in the Garden
• Paige Rattray, ARTHUR (NSW) - $10,000
  Bright World
• Rani Pramesti, Sedih (VIC) - $4,000
  Sunno by Rani P Collaborations at Next Wave
• Ryan Lewis (VIC) - $3,500
  Einstein: Master of the Universe
• Sally McLean, Shakespeare Republic (VIC) - $3,000
  The Live Show
• Sam Buckingham (NSW) - $10,000
  Queen on the Bus Album & Tour
• Samantha McCulloch (VIC) - $2,000
  Shadow Sites
• Sean Foran, Trichotomy (QLD) - $6,000
  New music for piano, double bass and drums
• Sophie Klein, Little Wise (VIC) - $8,000
  Creation of a full length album
• Stephen Kok, 5 Seconds (NSW) - $3,750
  Young adult graphic novel
• Stuart McMillen (ACT) - $10,000
  Thermoeconomics: a debut non-fiction graphic novel
• Susie Dee, influx (VIC) - $5,000
  Animal
• Tobias Cole (ACT) - $10,000
  The Vow: compelling music theatre based on a Handel oratorio
• Vanessa Varghese (NSW) - $2,000
  PASSING

Funding recipients for 2014/2015

In 2014/2015, 57 artist campaigns shared in more than $326,000 in MATCH funding.

• Abbey Barnes, Love Street (VIC) - $2,620
  Love Street Music and Arts Festival
• Alex Desebrock, Maybe ( ) Together (VIC) - $3,500
  Small Voices Louder
• Amelia Ryan (SA) - $4,000
  Amelia Ryan is a Storm in a D Cup- UK Tour; London and Edinburgh Fringe
• Anna McMichael, Tyalgum Music Festival (NSW) - $3,500
  Tyalgum Music Festival 2015
• Beth McMahon, The Indirect Object (VIC) - $9,500
  For the Love of an Orange
• Bianca Martin, Company Upstairs (WA) - $3,500
  From Afar on a Hill
• Bridget O'Shea, Yarn (VIC) - $10,000
  Stingray Sisters
• Britt Guy (NT) - $5,000
  Cypher by Nick Power
• Daniel Cadwallader, Paperback Rider Cycles (VIC) - $7,000
  Paperback Rider Cycles
• Emilie Collyer (VIC) - $3,327
  Dream Home
• Finn O'Branagain, Finn O'Branagain and Scott Sandwich (WA) - $4,000
  The Epic
• Franz Kempf AM (SA) - $10,000
  Retrospective Catalogue
• Gabriella Smart, Soundstream Collective (SA) - $10,000
  SOUND:BLAZE
• Georgia King, Whisky and Boots (WA) - $3,000
  Benjamin and Me
• Gerard Van Dyck (VIC) - $9,800
  PICNIC
• Giema Contini (NSW) - $600
  Awesome Ocean Party
• Harriet Roberts, Fracture (WA) - $2,000
  Fracture
• Holly Norman, Junkadelic Brass Band (WA) - $10,000
  Junkadelic Honk! Fest USA Tour
• Iris Gaillard, Georgia Symons + Iris Gaillard (VIC) - $2,000
  In the Dark
• Jain Moralee, Underbelly Arts (NSW) - $10,000
  Program of Artists, Underbelly Arts Lab and Festival 2015
• James Berlyn, Performing Lines WA (WA) - $3,000
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• Jason Sweeney (SA) - $2,907
  Silent Type
• Jayde Kirchert, Citizen Theatre (VIC) - $3,000
  Nude
• Jenny Thomas, Jenny M. Thomas & The System (VIC) - $2,000
  Victorian Heartbreak Recording Campaign
• Jess Olivieri (NSW) - $3,000
  White Horse Project
• Jessica Scott, Channels (VIC) - $7,000
  Channels
• Jim Rolon, Jim Rolon Photography (NSW) - $6,328
  Australian Composer Polaroid Series
• Joshua Santospirito, Her Majesty's Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival (TAS) - $600
  Her Majesty's Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival 2015
• Julien Poulson, The Cambodian Space Project (NSW) - $10,000
  Cosmic Cambodia
• Juliet Darling, Darling (NSW) - $2,000
  WAIT
• Kelly Drummond Cawthon, Second Echo Ensemble (TAS) - $10,000
  The Rite of Spring
• Kerrie Noonan, The Groundswell Project (NSW) - $8,000
  Reflected Legacy
• Kim Brockett (VIC) - $5,000
  Danish-Australian ARI exhibition exchange
• Kirsty Hulm (VIC) - $6,000
  Found Festival 15: Raise Your Flag
• Laila Engle, Syzygy Ensemble (VIC) - $6,000
  Syzygy Ensemble National CD Launch
• Marsha Emerman (VIC) - $10,000
  On the Banks of the Tigris: the hidden story of Iraqi music
• Mick Cummins (VIC) - $5,000
  Looking For Odysseus
• Miranda Edmonds, Cottesloe Films (WA) - $10,000
  Library of Love
• Heather Fairbairn, Shot in the Dark (NSW) - $5,000
  Sunnytown
• Moana Lutton, MOANA (WA) - $5,000
  MOANA: Cloud Mother/Elephant Bones (The Trilogy Of The Black Monsoon)
• Moira Finucane, Finucane & Smith (VIC) - $17,000
  Finucane & Smith's Glory Box - The Next R/Evolution headlines the Havana International Arts Festival CUBA
• Nadia Buick, The Fashion Archives (QLD) - $8,640
  Remotely Fashionable: The Fashion Archives’ Book Project
• Nicola Pitt, CAAMA Music (NT) - $10,000
  Alukura compilation CD
• Nicole Law (NSW) - $1,500
  Marked
• Patrick McCarthy, Flight Festival of New Writing projects at Theatre Works (VIC) - $10,000
  Flight: A Festival of New Writing at Theatre Works
• Pip Kelly, Thomas Banks' Quest for Love - Key Creatives (QLD) - $10,000
  Thomas Banks' Quest for Love
• Sara Pheasant, Game birds (VIC) - $1,500
  No Punchline
• Sarah Kriegler, Lemony S Puppet Theatre (VIC) - $10,000
  Picasso and His Dog
• Shane Walsh-Smith, ShaneWSmit (ACT) - $3,500
  Undad - Season 2
• Suvira McDonald, Creative Mullumbimby (NSW) - $10,000
  Mullumbimby Sculpture Walk
• Tom Sevil, Ground Up Community Support Network (NSW) - $10,000
  Gija Language and Culture Classes
• Tully Arnot, Digital Forest (NSW) - $6,000
  Presented at Underbelly Arts Festival on Cockatoo Island
• Wilma Smith, Wilma and Friends (VIC) - $5,000
  Americana - Wilma and Friends program #2, MRC Local Heroes series

Funding recipients for 2013/2014

Between 2013 and 2014, we provided 16 artists and arts groups with over $215,400 in MATCH funding.

• ALASKA Projects (NSW) - $15,000
  ALASKA Projects
• Anywhere Theatre Festival (QLD) - $12,330
  Anywhere Theatre Festival
• Dancehouse (VIC) - $10,790
  Dancehouse
• Liquid Architecture (VIC) - $14,265
  Liquid Architecture
• Metro Arts (QLD) - $11,125
  Metro Arts
• Proximity Festival (WA) - $11,406
  Proximity Festival
• Ql2 (ACT) - $12,500
  Ql2
• RAYGUN Projects (QLD) - $9,435
  RAYGUN Projects
• SITUATE Art in Festivals (TAS) - $5,750
  SITUATE Art in Festivals
• The Blue Room Theatre (WA) - $25,000
  The Blue Room Theatre
• The Mill Studio (SA) - $12,500
  The Mill Studio
• Tiny Stadiums (NSW) - $12,500
  Tiny Stadiums
• This is Not Art (TiNA) (NSW) - $21,890
  This is Not Art (TiNA)
• Umi Arts (QLD) - $5,125
  Umi Arts
• Watch This Space (NT) - $12,500
  Watch This Space
• West Space (VIC) - $23,321
  West Space

Plus1 funding decisions

Our Plus1 program provides funding to small-to-medium arts organisations to create new work, attract new donors, build relationships and boost their fundraising skills, by matching donations raised through fundraising campaigns.

Funding recipients for 2020/2021

For the 2020/21 Plus1 funding round, we’ve committed $1,200,200 of in-principle matched funding, to 41 arts organisations around Australia.

• 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne (VIC)
  3MBS Fine Music for the Future - Transmission Upgrades
• Abbotsford Convent Foundation (VIC)
  Keep it Green: Adapting Inside Out
• Arena Theatre Company (VIC)
  Arena55
• Australian Dance Theatre (SA)
  Supernature: Super Supporters
• Australian National Memorial Theatre (VIC)
  High-Tech, Triple-Threat
• Australian Theatre For Young People (NSW)
  Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) Capital Campaign
• Barking Gecko Theatre Company (WA)
  Wonder Club Giving Circle
• Big Fork Theatre Co-op Ltd (QLD)
  Make Brisbane Comedy Accessible
• BLINDSIDE Artist Run Initiative (VIC)
  B-SIDE+ The start of the world as we want it.
• Brisbane Writers Festival (QLD)
  60 Years of BWF - Honouring Legacy, Sustaining Future
• Canberra Youth Theatre (ACT)
  Support our Resident Artist Program
• Crossroad Arts Inc (QLD)
  Sponsorship/ Development Officer position
• Dance Hub South Australia (SA)
  Young Artist Program Donation Campaign
• Ensemble Offspring (NSW)
  Offspring for All: new music streaming for all to enjoy!
• Feminist Writers Festival (VIC)
  Fostering our feminist future.
• Festival of Jewish Arts and Music (VIC)
  We’re All In This Together
• Fremantle Biennale (WA)
  Biennale Benefactors & YourBiennale
• Helpmann Academy (SA)
  Incubating Creativity
• InkMasters Cairns Inc (QLD)
  InkFest 2021
• Island Magazine Inc (TAS)
  Futureproofing Island Magazine by enhancing digital capacity
• JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design (SA)
  Medici Collective Business Circle
• Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (VIC)
  Show Your #SynthLove - Get MESSy and Be Our Plus1 !
• Monkey Baa Theatre Company (NSW)
  Creative Associate Production Fund for Diverse Artists
• Moorambilla Voices Ltd (NSW)
  Moorambilla Voices Patron's Circle
• Omega Ensemble (NSW)
  CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program
• Outer Space Artist Run Initiative (QLD)
  Outer Space: Support emerging art in Queensland
• PhotoAccess Incorporated (ACT)
  Who's In The Picture?
• Port Fairy Spring Music Festival (VIC)
  2021-22 Community Projects, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
• Restless Dance Theatre (SA)
  Keep Restless DANCING
• Robin Boyd Foundation (VIC)
  RBF Kick-start
• South East Arts (NSW)
  Building Individual Donors
• Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (WA)
  Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Next Generation Appeal
• Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre (NSW)
  The Future is Sprung!!
• STRUT Dance (WA)
  Pathways to Crystal Pite
• Studio A (NSW)
  Double Love
• Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival (QLD)
  'Chamber Music Rocks'
• The Performance Space Ltd (NSW)
  Queer Nu Donors: have your love of Queer Art doubled in 2021
• The Sydney International Piano Competition (The Sydney) (NSW)
  Composing the Future
• Tracks Dance (NT)
  New Works 2021
• un Projects (VIC)
  un Magazine: dialogue and ideas in contemporary art
• Van Diemen's Band (TAS)
  '"Bohemia" recording project

Funding Recipients for 2019/2020

For the 2019/20 Plus1 funding round, we’ve committed $1,196,500 of in-principle matched funding, to 40 arts organisations around Australia.

• Adelaide Chamber Singers (SA)
  Get us to the Games
• Artlink Australia (SA)
  Artlink Indigenous Trainee Editor Position
• Arts Mildura (VIC)
  Arts Mildura 2020 fundraising campaign
• The Australian Haydn Ensemble Inc (NSW)
  Australian Haydn Ensemble Plus 1 Challenge
• Ballet Theatre Queensland (QLD)
  Ballet Theatre Queensland Tutu Campaign
• Bach Akademie Australia Ltd (NSW)
  Brilliance of BACH: Build Bach Akademie Australia’s future
• Big hART (TAS)
  Traditional Heroes - Story and Portrait Project
• Bleached Arts Ltd (QLD)
  Be Part of Bleach* The Gold Coast Festival’s Future
• The Blue Room Theatre (WA)
  TRANSFORMATION: The Blue Room Theatre 30th Birthday Appeal
• Centre for Contemporary Photography (VIC)
  Photography by Design
• Centre for Stories Limited (WA)
  Story Supporters: Centre for Stories (CfS)
• Co-Opera Incorporated (SA)
  Co-Opera's Young Artist Program
• Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (NSW)
  100+ Voices Speak
• Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre (ACT)
  You are part of the CraftACT story. Fifty@50
• Darlinghurst Theatre Company (NSW)
  The Chair’s Group:Empowering Future Female led Aust. Theatre
• Darwin Visual Arts Association (NT)
  Creativity is Contagious - Pass it on
• Documentary Australia Foundation (NSW)
  What's your Issue? Join us to double your impact
• Experimenta Media Arts (VIC)
  Engaging children and families with art driven by technology
• Finucane & Smith / Auspicious Projects (VIC)
  DINNER & A SIREN SHOW – The Waterborne Major Donor Dinner!
• Flinders Quartet Inc. (VIC)
  HEAR HER VOICE: Championing Women in Composition
• Four Winds Concerts Inc (NSW)
  Just 21
• Guildhouse Incorporated (SA)
  DOUBLE UP: To double down on artistic ambition
• Griffin Theatre Company (NSW)
  Griffin Women's Initiative
• Institute Of Modern Art (QLD)
  New Tiered Donorship Model: IMA Trailblazers and Foundation
• Mosman Art Gallery (NSW)
  Hunters & Collectors - Supporting the Mosman Art Collection
• The Mill (SA)
  The Mill - Building Capacity, Striving for Sustainability
• Next Wave Festival Incorporated (VIC)
  35 Years of Next Wave
• Perth Institute Contemporary Arts (WA)
  Future Together
• Play On Arts Ltd. (VIC)
  See another side of music: Play On 2020 Fundraiser
• Propel Youth Arts WA (WA)
  Representation Matters: Building Our Future Cultural Leaders
• Progressive Broadcasting Service Co-operative Limited (VIC)
  Make It Home
• Sydney Philharmonia Choirs (SPC) (NSW)
  100 Minutes of Australian Music
• Theatre Republic Ltd (SA)
  Theatre Republic presents The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini
• Red Rattler Theatre (NSW)
  Give A Rat's...
• Red Stitch Actors Theatre (VIC)
  Cromwell Road Rehearsal and Theatre Space
• SecondEcho Ensemble (TAS)
  What Makes You Beautiful
• The Stella Prize Inc (VIC)
  Stella Future Makers Circle
• Snuff Puppets (VIC)
  Snuff Lovers
• Stephanie Lake Company (VIC)
  COLOSSAL IMPACT
• The Unconformity Inc (TAS)
  Unconstrained: Remodelling The Unconformity partner program

Funding recipients for 2018/2019

For the 2018/19 Plus1 funding round, we’ve committed $1,295,159 of in-principle matched funding, to 44 arts organisations around Australia.

• 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne (VIC) - $43,024
  Entering the digital age - Lady Southey performance studio
• ACE Open (SA) - $40,000
  Times 5: Support ACE’s 2020 vision
• ActNow Theatre Incorporated (SA) - $4,505
  Theatre of the global majority
• Arts Access Australia (WA) - $20,000
  National scholarship and meeting place forum
• Arts Law Centre of Australia (NSW) - $22,997
  Artists in the Black Amplified
• Brisbane Portrait Prize (QLD) - $28,347
  Future proofing
• Chamber Music Adelaide (SA) - $12,000
  CMA Young Artist Award
• Constance Ari Inc. (TAS) - $5,000
  HOBIENNALE Arts Festival 2019
• Curious Arts Inc. (QLD) - $7,000
  Curious Arts Festival 2020
• Dancenorth (QLD) - $50,000
  Producing artistic excellence in regional Queensland
• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation (NT) - $30,000
  Succession planning & Indigenous employment
• Duldig Studio (VIC) - $20,000
  Conservation and preservation
• Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation (NT) - $25,000
  Strengthening access to Ngan’gikurunggurr culture
• East Gippsland Art Gallery (VIC) - $25,000
  jumpstART Supporting arts learning in our young community
• Flying Arts Alliance Inc. (QLD) - $10,000
  All systems go!
• Flying Fruit Fly Foundation (NSW) - $29,000
  Visiting artist accommodation
• Gasworks Arts Inc. (VIC) - $50,000
  Major Gifts Campaign: Theatre seating bank
• Geelong Gallery (VIC) - $50,000
  Fund something you can’t see - storage upgrade
• HotHouse Theatre Ltd (VIC) - $13,000
  Lighting equipment upgrade
• L2R Dance (VIC) - $29,325
  Pathways - Leadership program
• Linden New Art Inc. (VIC) - $25,000
  Project space & internship program
• Liquid Architecture (VIC) - $18,155
  PAPER BEATS ROCK: A Sound Journal
• Melbourne Jazz LImited (VIC) - $40,169
  Tomorrow is my turn: Emerging Women’s Jazz Leadership Program
• Monash Gallery of Art (VIC) - $50,000
  Photography 500: curate, collect and conserve
• Natalie Miller Fellowship (VIC) - $10,000
  2019 Brilliant Careers Leadership Conference
• Northern Rivers Performing Arts Inc (NSW) - $52,564
  Launch of Foundation annual giving program
• Performing Lines (NSW) - $35,000
  Future Works Program
• PhotoAccess (ACT) - $7,000
  Help us support & nurture the next generation of creatives
• Pro Musica Inc. (ACT) - $28,875
  'A Major Lift' – For the best and boldest new music
• River City Voices Ltd (NSW) - $13,868
  Growing support for a sustainable future
• Screen Culture Association Inc. (NSW) - $25,000
  Talking Antenna to the next level
• Sensorium Theatre Inc. (WA) - $38,856
  Brace & blast-off campaign
• Shopfront Arts Co-op Ltd (NSW) - $50,000
  Expansion - building creativity, confidence & community
• STRUT Dance (WA) - $74,369
  The SUNSET Campaign
• Sydney Writers' Festival Ltd (NSW) - $32,300
  Youth opportunities program – young curators council
• Sydney Youth Orchestras Inc. (NSW) - $50,000
  An instrumental partnership with Sydney Youth Orchestras
• The Sydney Fringe Festival (Newtown Entertainment Precinct Association) (NSW) - $34,465
  Development manager and Board skills development
• The Wheeler Centre (VIC) - $50,000
  Reimagining the Di Gribble Argument
• Urban Theatre Projects Ltd (NSW) - $25,000
  The Quiet Discomfort
• Van Diemen's Band (TAS) - $13,000
  Handel Opus 3 recording project
• WA Youth Theatre Company (WA) - $18,121
  2019 Major Production
• Watch This Space (NT) - $25,000
  25 More
• Western Australian Youth Orchestras Association (WA) - $50,000
  Jandamarra: Sing for the Country
• Women's Circus (VIC) - $15,000
  Connecting Women through Circus

Funding recipients for 2017/2018

In 2017/18, we granted matched funding of $1,348,510 to 48 arts organisations around Australia through our Plus1 program.

• Adelaide Chamber Singers (SA) - $14,000
  Continued development of fundraising initiatives
• Artspace (NSW) - $25,000
  Artspace First Floor The Gunnery: Feasibility Study
• Australian Haydn Ensemble (NSW) - $25,000
  Australian Haydn Management, development and CRM initiative
• Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra (NSW) - $25,000
  Brahms and Mahler on late Romantic Instruments
• Back to Back Theatre (VIC) - $50,000
  Major new work
• Ballarat International Foto Biennale (VIC) - $50,000
  2019 Ballarat International Foto Biennale
• BalletLab Association (VIC) - $32,065
  All Rise, Temperance Hall - new staff and venue upgrades
• Carclew (SA) - $25,000
  Carclew Fellowships
• Chamber Made (VIC) - $25,000
  30 for 30 New Work Fund
• Co3 Australia (WA) - $30,000
  Reason for Being
• Corrugated Iron Youth Arts (NT) - $25,000
  Access For All
• Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre (ACT) - $10,000
  Match Makers: Contemporary Indigenous Craft + Design Project
• Creative Broadcasters t/a Radio 4ZZZ (QLD) - $15,000
  4ZZZ’s Building Blitz: Barry Bounces Back
• Dancehouse (VIC) - $29,486
  The Dancehouse Education Fund
• Expressions Dance Company (QLD) - $40,000
  Youth Program
• Festival of Voices (TAS) - $50,000
  Building capacity, capability and creativity
• Finucane & Smith (VIC) - $25,000
  Hothouse of the Exquisite: accelerates extraordinary artists
• Force Majeure (NSW) - $15,000
  INCITE 2018
• Griffin Theatre Company (NSW) - $36,000
  Development Coordinator
• Island Magazine (TAS) - $15,648
  Enabling Island's Community Engagement
• JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design (SA) - $50,000
  Empowering Patrons with Plus1
• Kaiela Arts Shepparton (VIC) - $15,000
  Feeding the Turtle - Fundraising Strategy for the Future
• Lorne Sculpture Exhibition (VIC) - $25,000
  Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2018
• M16 Artspace (ACT) - $5,000
  Transforming a Gallery
• Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation (WA) - $25,000
  Magabala Books Cultural Literary Fund
• Melbourne City Ballet (VIC) - $25,000
  Annual Pointe Shoe Appeal
• Melbourne Fringe (VIC) - $50,000
  Fringe Outreach
• Milk Crate Theatre (NSW) - $25,000
  Outreach Program
• Newcastle Youth Orchestra (NSW) - $7,014
  Mentorship Program 2018
• Next Wave (VIC) - $30,000
  Next Wave Festival 2018 and Brunswick Mechanics Institute
• Patch Theatre Company (SA) - $25,000
  Hive Mind Creative Development
• Pinchgut Opera (NSW) - $50,000
  Support our Maestro
• Polyglot Theatre (VIC) - $50,000
  Building Futures
• Restless Dance Theatre (SA) - $50,000
  Restless Goes Global
• Shaun Parker & Company (NSW) - $15,000
  The Yard - Dance Not Fight anti-bullying program
• Studio A (NSW) - $31,797
  Shoot n’ Share: Getting Studio A Artwork Seen
• Sydney Chamber Opera (NSW) - $25,000
  Howling Girls
• Tactile Arts (NT) - $15,500
  Tactile Arts Artist Takeover
• Tasmanian Theatre Company (TAS) - $50,000
  The Yellow Line
• The Denmark Arts Council Inc (WA)
  Denmark Festival of Voice: National Calendar Event
• The Last Great Hunt (WA) - $30,000
  Local Adventures: Our 2018 Perth Season of Works
• The Substation (VIC) - $20,000
  The SUBSTATION Commissioning Program
• Tura New Music (WA) - $20,000
  Tura’s inaugural Transcontinental Dinner & Performance event
• un Projects (VIC) - $12,000
  un Extended: critical dialogue around contemporary art
• Vitalstatistix (SA) - $10,000
  Climate Century 2018
• WA Youth Jazz Orchestra (WA) - $25,000
  WAYJO Women in Jazz 2018 Season
• WestWords (NSW) - $25,000
  WestWords development officer
• Woodend Winter Arts Festival (VIC) - $25,000
  Woodend Winter Arts Festival 2018

Funding recipients for 2016/2017

For the 2016/17 Plus1 funding round, we’ve committed $1,152,400 in matched funding to date, to 37 arts organisations around Australia.

• A is for Atlas (VIC) - $50,000
  Break bread with Tim Fischer AC and General Sir John Monash
• Art Collective WA (WA) - $15,000
  Art Collective WA Book Club – Artist Publications
• Artsource (WA) - $15,000
  Artsource Global City Residency- Singapore
• ATYP (NSW) - $50,000
  Mobile, Flexible, Sustainable - New IT Implementation
• Australian Dance Theatre (SA) - $42,935
  Support Australian Dance Theatre’s tour to China campaign
• Australian String Quartet (SA) - $15,000
  Be Part of Our Story
• Biennale of Sydney (NSW) - $50,000
  New brand development and digital engagement
• Big hART (TAS) - $50,000
  Future Proofing: Towards financial sustainability
• Canberra Youth Theatre (ACT) - $6,000
  The Yellow Chair Goes Travelling
• Chunky Move (VIC) - $30,000
  Chunky Move new creation INTERIOR fundraising campaign
• Darlinghurst Theatre Company (NSW) - $32,400
  Share the love - Theatre for all
• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation (NT) - $30,000
  daafCHAMPS
• Firstdraft (NSW) - $13,000
  Show Support
• Flinders Quartet (VIC) - $15,000
  Be a part of Australian music making with Flinders Quartet’
• fortyfivedownstairs (VIC) - $30,000
  fortyfivedownstairs 2016/17 Patron Program
• Four Winds Concerts (NSW) - $40,000
  I'm for ADA
• Geelong Performing Arts Centre (VIC) - $25,000
  Women for Change: The GPAC Giving Circle
• Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Inc (VIC) - $50,000
  Launch of Gertrude's New Private Patronage Program
• Gondwana Choirs (NSW) - $50,000
  Gondwana Choirs & Vienna Boys Choir collaboration
• Institute of Modern Art (QLD) - $30,000
  IMA Commissioners Circle
• JUTE Theatre Company (QLD) - $50,000
  25th Anniversary Celebration- Double Down to Double Up!
• KAGE Physical Theatre Association Inc. (VIC) - $20,000
  20/20: Our vision/Your support
• La Boite Theatre Company (QLD) - $50,000
  Double Your Support for Queensland Artists at La Boite
• Lucy Guerin (VIC) - $15,000
  Lucy Guerin Inc: $15K to Celebrate 15 Years
• Metro Arts (Brisbane Community Arts Centre Ltd) (QLD) - $50,000
  Lift the Lift
• Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (WA) - $50,000
  Supporting a New Era of Performance
• PhotoAccess Incorporated (ACT) - $6,500
  Join the digital revolution: Help transform our website
• Red Stitch Actors Theatre (VIC) - $50,000
  Each Stitch Counts
• Shepparton Festival (VIC) - $25,000
  Shepparton Festival Patrons program
• Slingsby Theatre Company (SA) - $25,000
  Slingsby’s Giving Circles of Companions and Journeyfolk
• South East Arts (NSW) (NSW) - $30,000
  Support the Art of Being Well
• STRUT Dance Incorporated (WA) - $26,600
  One Donor = One Dancer = One Flat Thing, Reproduced
• Sydney Film Festival (NSW) - $20,000
  Education Prorgam Fund Pledge
• Sydney Writers' Festival (NSW) - $50,000
  Digital Outreach – Live and Local
• The Metropolitan Orchestra (NSW) - $20,000
  Plus1 Infrastructure Development
• The Song Room (VIC) - $15,000
  The Song Room Playathon
• Tutti Arts (SA) - $10,000
  Day of the Song

Funding recipients for 2015/2016

In the 2015/16 Plus1 funding round, we committed $1,189,600 in matched funding to 30 organisations from around Australia.

• 3MBS Fine Music (VIC) - $53,000
  Transforming Broadcasting at 3MBS campaign
• Adelaide Fringe Inc. (SA) - $50,000
  Street Art/ Cultural Fund for Artists and New Work campaign
• Art Gallery of New South Wales (NSW) - $50,000
  AGNSW Next Generation: Patrons for the Future
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (VIC) - $50,000
  Development and production of the NEW17 exhibition campaign
• Bangarra Dance Theatre (NSW) - $50,000
  Russell Page Graduate Program campaign
• Belvoir Theatre Company (NSW) - $50,000
  Family Programming campaign
• Beyond Empathy (NSW) - $50,000
  HOMEtruths: Moree Aboriginal women create new futures
• Black Swan State Theatre Company (WA) - $50,000
  Black Swan's 25th Anniversary–Double Up campaign
• Climarte Inc (VIC) - $30,000
  ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017
• Footscray Community Arts Centre (VIC) - $40,000
  Turn the Lights On campaign
• Fremantle Press (WA) - $30,000
  40th Anniversary Champions of Literature campaign
• Griffin Theatre Company (NSW) - $55,000
  Griffin Digital Activation campaign
• Imaginary Theatre (QLD) - $7,100
  Circle - Development of a Digital Installation for Children campaign
• Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation (WA) - $37,100
  Inspire Invest Develop Build Succeed campaign
• Malthouse Theatre (VIC) - $50,000
  LATITUDE: License to Play with the Known World campaign
• Mandurah Performing Arts Inc. (WA) - $30,000
  Activate: Engaging Mandurah Youth with Contemporary Arts campaign
• Melbourne Fringe Festival (VIC) - $50,000
  Sky Light campaign
• Melbourne Theatre Company Foundation (VIC) - $50,000
  Family Program campaign
• Mosman Art Gallery (NSW) - $48,000
  Consolidation and expansion of MAG's Existing Donor Program
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (NT) - $30,000
  Chan Capital campaign
• Orchestra Victoria (VIC) - $50,000
  Instrument Acquisition campaign
• Polyglot Theatre (VIC) - $16,210
  Cerita Anak (Child's Story) campaign
• Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QLD) - $50,000
  QSO Month of Giving campaign
• Rawcus Theatre Company (VIC) - $20,000
  Forever Home. A new work campaign
• Restless Dance Theatre (SA) - $38,420
  Debut - The Dancers Direct campaign
• Spare Parts Theatre Company (WA) - $45,738
  Schools Inclusion Program campaign
• The Helpmann Academy (SA) - $40,000
  Cultivate campaign
• The Red Room Company (NSW) - $33,000
  Seeding Australian poetry campaign
• Theatre Works (VIC) - $36,441
  Foundation Funding Appeal
• Western Australian Youth Orchestras (WA) - $35,528
  Tour to Singapore and Japan campaign

Funding recipients for 2014/2015

In the 2014/15 Plus1 funding round, we committed more than $2,180,000 in matched funding to 63 organisations from around Australia.

• Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (SA) - $50,000
  Supporting innovation: the new artistic leadership team of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra campaign
• Adelaide Youth Orchestras (SA) - $20,000
  The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk Australian Regional Tour campaign
• Arts Centre Gold Coast (QLD) - $36,050
  The Arts Centre Gold Coast campaign
• Australian Children's Performing Arts Company trading as Windmill Theatre (SA) - $20,000
  The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk Australian Regional Tour campaign
• Australian Festival of Chamber Music (QLD) - $50,000
  Australian Festival of Chamber Music campaign
• Australian Tapestry Workshop (VIC) - $50,000
  Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2015 campaign
• Australian Theatre for Young People (NSW) - $50,000
  ATYP online campaign
• Australian Youth Orchestra (NSW) - $40,000
  Create a Bright Future campaign
• Back to Back Theatre (VIC) - $25,000
  An Uncommon Private Giving campaign
• Barking Gecko Theatre Company (WA) - $20,000
  Creative development of a new Australian work for children campaign
• Belconnen Arts Centre (ACT) - $8,004
  Belco's going for Plus 1 campaign
• Biennale of Sydney (NSW) - $50,000
  Employment of a Benefaction Manager
• Brisbane Writers Festival (QLD) - $11,960
  BWF Fundraising Fitness Initiative
• Carriageworks (NSW) - $45,000
  Engaging New Culturally Diverse Australian Audiences campaign
• Chamber Made Opera (VIC) - $18,000
  Employment of a Development & Communications Manager and a customised Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database for Chamber Made Opera
• Chinese Museum (VIC) - $50,000
  Building a Better Australia campaign
• Circa Contemporary Circus (QLD) - $40,000
  Circa new creation - Il Ritorno online campaign
• Circus Oz (VIC) - $40,000
  Growing our Mates live funding campaign
• Creative Clunes (VIC) - $30,291
  Securing Clunes Booktown's Future campaign
• Documentary Australia Foundation (NSW) - $40,090
  Web/CRM Engagement Automation Ecosystem campaign
• Four Winds Concerts (NSW) - $48,000
  Four Winds 48 (FW 48) - Composing the Future campaign
• Girls from Oz (VIC) - $35,000
  Planning for the future campaign
• Guildhouse (SA) - $35,000
  FIFTYforFIFTY campaign for Artist Loan Scheme campaign
• Hothouse Theatre (VIC) - $16,035
  HotHouse Fundraising Manager position campaign
• Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (VIC) - $20,000
  Help support HRAFF's Development Manager position campaign
• In the Pipeline (Arts) trading as Independent Music Theatre and Hayes Theatre Co (NSW) - $40,000
  Support Hayes Theatre Co campaign
• Island Magazine (TAS) - $50,000
  Implementation of business processes and organisational changes
• Junction Arts Festival (TAS) - $50,000
  Reigniting The Gospel Hall campaign
• Koorie Heritage Trust (VIC) - $50,000
  Curator of Public Programs - Access and Outreach position campaign
• La Mama (VIC) - $15,000
  La Mama Local campaign
• The Last Great Hunt (WA) - $29,000
  Stage 1 Leadership Project campaign
• Lorne Sculpture (VIC) - $44,960
  Lorne Sculpture Biennale - Building a Sustainable Future campaign
• Major Brisbane Festivals (QLD) - $45,000
  Supporting Brisbane Festival campaign
• McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery (VIC) - $50,000
  Support McClelland campaign
• Melbourne Recital Centre (VIC) - $40,000
  Inspiring a Love of Song – A Vocal Fund for Melbourne Recital Centre campaign
• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (VIC) - $50,000
  MSO Roses: Supporting International Artists campaign
• Monkey Baa Theatre Company (NSW) - $50,000
  Clever Monkeys campaign
• Museum of Brisbane (QLD) - $50,000
  100% Brisbane campaign
• Musica Viva (NSW) - $50,000
  Musica Viva at Work
• MusicNT (NT) - $46,680
  Support Music NT campaign
• New England Regional Art Museum (NSW) - $50,000
  Adopt a Painting campaign
• No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability (SA) - $13,000
  Support No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability campaign
• Open House Melbourne (VIC) - $20,000
  Support Open House Melbourne campaign
• Performing Lines (NSW) - $25,000
  Philanthropic Capacity Building campaign
• Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (WA) - $40,000
  The Double your Donation Campaign
• Phillip Adams BalletLab (VIC) - $50,000
  Phillip Adams BalletLab's new house campaign
• Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QLD) - $35,000
  QAGOMA fundraising campaign
• Queensland Library Foundation (QLD) - $27,000
  MatchUp campaign
• Queensland Theatre Company (QLD) - $50,000
  QTC Legal Chapter Play Commissioning and Development Fund
• Queensland Writers Centre (QLD) - $13,973
  QWC Scholarships and Access Fund
• Slingsby Theatre Company (SA) - $7,500
  Paths Less Travelled – Slingsby’s Annual Creative Research and Development Program campaign
• Speak Percussion (VIC) - $11,558
  Speak Revolutions campaign
• State Theatre Company of South Australia Foundation (SA) - $25,000
  The Price of Love: Creative Development campaign
• Sydney Dance Company (NSW) - $50,000
  Sydney Dance Company Asia Pacific Market Development campaign
• Sydney Story Factory (NSW) - $27,834
  Support our Teacher Professional Development Program campaign
• Sydney Symphony Orchestra (NSW) - $50,000
  Tristan und Isolde Fundraising campaign
• Theatre Network Victoria (VIC) - $4,000
  Support Theatre’s National Voice campaign
• Tura New Music (WA) - $45,000
  Tura New Music’s Plus1 Regional Program Capacity Building Project
• Victorian Opera (VIC) - $45,000
  Tessitura implementation campaign
• West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WA) - $30,000
  The Sound of Picture Books regional tour campaign
• Western Edge Youth Arts (VIC) - $13,133
  Western Edge's Funds for the Future project
• Wide Angle Tasmania (TAS) - $22,922
  Support Wide Angle Tasmania and our Step-Up Film Initiative
• Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation (WA) - $25,000
  Emerging Cultural Leader/Creative Producer position campaign

Arts Mentoring decisions

Our Arts Mentoring programs fund arts organisations to work one-on-one with an experienced arts mentor to develop goals and strategies for their organisation.

LIFT | Management Mentoring Program SA recipients for 2019/2020

Creative Partnerships Australia is supporting 7 South Australian arts organisations with a unique opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced arts leader to strengthen organisational operations.

• ActNow Theatre (SA)
  ActNow Theatre is a South Australian theatre company who tailor socially conscious performance projects. They work with professional artists to engage diverse communities in conversations around challenging and contemporary issues.
• Chamber Music Adelaide (SA)
  Chamber Music Adelaide facilitates and supports the performance of chamber music in Adelaide. CMA was formed in January 2013 to support the performance of chamber music by seven core organisations – Adelaide Baroque, Ensemble Galante, Kegelstatt Ensemble, Recitals Australia, Soundstream New Music, The Firm and Various People Inc. In addition, it promotes a wider remit of chamber music performers and presenters in South Australia and celebrates Adelaide as a UNESCO City of Music, along with 180 cities in 72 countries worldwide.
• Slingsby Theatre Company Limited (SA)
  Founded in 2007 and based in Adelaide, South Australia, Slingsby presents emotionally challenging and engaging storytelling in rich live theatrical realms. Their original productions are crafted to challenge and inspire adult and older family audiences.
• SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival (SA)
  The South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival is a statewide festival of Visual Art. The SALA Festival was established in 1998 to promote and celebrate the many talented visual artists in South Australia. SALA Festival aims to extend audiences which remains a cornerstone of the Festival, and as an umbrella organisation they have continued a policy of inclusiveness allowing all artists at any level and working in any medium to be part of the annual SALA Festival every August.
• Australian Dance Theatre Ltd (SA)
  Australian Dance Theatre is Australia’s pre-eminent contemporary dance company and the longest running in the country. For over 50 years Australian Dance Theatre has pioneered new work that has contributed to defining dance in this region. Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australian Dance Theatre is at the forefront of Australian contemporary dance, committed to creating dance works of the highest standard that are intellectually and artistically compelling.
• National Railway Museum (SA)
  The National Railway Museum is a self-funded, registered not-for-profit, volunteer managed organisation. The Museum invites visitors to take a journey into railway history at Australia's largest undercover railway museum with over 100 exhibits representing State, Commonwealth and private railway operators on the three major rail gauges used in Australia. Visitors are invited to take in the size of the giant steam engines, walk through elegant carriages, enjoy the fun of train rides and interactive and educational displays.
• Guildhouse (SA)
  Guildhouse is a not-for-profit organisation that supports visual artists, craftspeople and designers to build and maintain sustainable careers. We help nurture and extend art practices and business development. We connect professional opportunities, markets and networks. Guildhouse began its story in 1966 as the Craft Association of South Australia, and has grown to become a leading South Australian not-for-profit, dedicated to its members.

LIFT | Covid Management Mentoring Program recipients for 2020/2021

Creative Partnerships Australia is supporting 16 arts organisations across Australia with a unique opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced arts leader, building capacity to successfully navigate through the impact brought to the industry as a result of COVID-19.

• Anangu Arts & Cultural Aboriginal Corp (SA)
  
• Arts Margaret River (WA)
  
• Australian Haydn Ensemble (NSW)
  
• Bach Academie (NSW)
  
• Centre for Contemporary Photography (VIC)
  
• Circus Nexus (VIC)
  
• Craft QLD (QLD)
  
• Hellenic Museum (VIC)
  
• Helpmann Academy (SA)
  
• Murray Art Museum Albury (NSW)
  
• PICA (WA)
  
• Poetry in Action (NSW)
  
• River of Art Festival (NSW)
  
• SYN (VIC)
  
• The Wheeler Centre (VIC)
  
• Western Edge youth Arts (VIC)
  

LIFT | Arts Fundraising Mentoring Program recipients for 2019/2020

Creative Partnerships Australia is supporting 11 Australian arts organisations through the LIFT Arts Fundraising Mentoring Program. Specifically for fundraising managers or executives who play key roles in fundraising, the mentoring program offers a unique opportunity for organisations to work with an experienced arts fundraiser.

• Canberra International Music Festival (ACT)
  Now in its 25th year Canberra International Music Festival presents a 10-day annual festival of classical and contemporary art music, recognised nationally for its outstanding quality, adventurous programming and broad artistic scope. Each May, the capital resounds with unique musical experiences that both challenge and inspire, placing diverse Australian music in a context of international repertoire.
• Shoalhaven Regional Gallery (NSW)
  Shoalhaven Regional Gallery was established in 2004 as part of Shoalhaven City Council's arts and culture unit. It has six exhibition areas within the precinct, and an annual exhibition program of more than 20 exhibitions per year.
• Shopfront Arts Co-op (NSW)
  Shopfront is the home of youth arts. Established in 1976 to provide a welcoming, safe space to enable Young People aged 8- 25 to find their voice, develop their confidence and realise their potential.
• Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NSW)
  NORPA is a leading regional theatre company, based in Lismore, NSW. Creating new works from a distinctly regional perspective, NORPA curates an annual subscription season and support Indigenous artists and the creation of new Indigenous works.
• Omega Ensemble (NSW)
  Founded in 2005 by clarinettist David Rowden, Omega Ensemble's mission to promote Australian musical excellence. The Ensemble aims to identify Australia's most impressive musical talent, at home and abroad, and provide the opportunity for collaboration through powerful chamber music.
• Circa Contemporary Circus (QLD)
  Circa is one of the world's leading performance companies. Since 2004, from its base in Brisbane, Circa has toured the world - performing in 40 countries to over a million people. Circa is at the forefront of the new wave of contemporary Australian circus - pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving performances.
• Metro Arts (QLD)
  Metro Arts is Queensland’s leading multi-arts organisation dedicated to the development of new contemporary arts practice. We support artists to realise their creative works and achieve their personal career goals. We work to represent the diversity of our community in full on our stages and in our galleries through our annual program
• Arena Theatre Company (VIC)
  Arena produces high quality, original and artistically ambitious theatre for young people. Arena Theatre’s work is presented by Australia’s major theatre producers and arts centres, and toured internationally. Arena Theatre believes in theatre’s unique ability to provide a space of reflection, celebration and transformation for young people.
• 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne (VIC)
  3MBS Fine Music Melbourne is a not-for-profit community broadcaster and Melbourne’s only fine music radio station, delivering a rich and dynamic range of programs 24 hours a day. Founded in 1975, 3MBS was the first 24-hour FM station in Victoria and led the way for the introduction of community radio in Australia.
• Monash Gallery of Art (VIC)
  MGA is the Australian home of photography. We champion Australian photography, and inspire audiences to embrace, explore and value photography. As Australia’s leading public art gallery devoted to the collection and exhibition of photography, and the only public collection solely dedicated to Australian photography, MGA holds a unique place in the nation’s network of galleries and museums.
• Abbotsford Convent Foundation (VIC)
  The National Heritage Listed Abbotsford Convent is Australia’s largest multi-arts community precinct. Located 4km from Melbourne’s CBD and encompassing 11 historic buildings across 6.8 hectares of gardens and grounds, the Convent is owned and operated by independent, not-for-profit, Abbotsford Convent Foundation.

Arts Leadership Mentoring Pilot Program QLD recipients for 2018/2019

We’ve supported 5 arts organisations to participate in our Arts Leadership Mentoring Program in 2019. The program offers an opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced arts leader.

• Creative Broadcasters Ltd (T/A 4ZZZ) (QLD)
  4ZZZ is a community radio station that's been the home of Brisbane's alternative arts, culture and news since we first went to air in 1975.
• Crossroad Arts Inc (QLD)
  Crossroad Arts is an award winning community development arts organisation which works in partnership with communities particularly within the disability and aged sectors to empower community members to embrace self development leading to social change through the process of creativity.
• Digi Youth Arts Inc (QLD)
  Digi Youth Arts is a not-for-profit arts organisation that shares the stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. As a leading youth arts organisation, Digi Youth Arts creates change through artistic excellence, advocacy and ensuring our young people are at the core of all that we do.
• KickArts Contemporary Arts (QLD)
  For 26 years KickArts has played a significant role in the cultural life of north Queensland. The independent not-for-profit arts organisation is a champion of contemporary visual culture, a gathering place for artists and audiences to learn and engage, as well as a globally integrated platform for the development and dissemination of new work.
• Playlab (QLD)
  Playlab exists to build theatre that matters. Playlab seeks to identify, nurture and support playwrights by offering; development initiatives that provide structure, critical feedback and investment to create high quality work; programs to build skills; and a pathway to the stage in the form of professional productions.

Arts Fundraising Mentoring Program recipients for 2017/2018

We’ve supported 12 arts organisations to participate in our Arts Fundraising Mentoring Program in 2017/18. The program offers an opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced arts fundraiser.

• Australian Dance Theatre (SA)
  Australian Dance Theatre creates dance that is an intelligent progression of the art form engaging audiences the world over.
• Australian Tapestry Workshop (VIC)
  The Australian Tapestry Workshop is regarded as an international centre of excellence for innovative, contemporary, hand-woven tapestries, created in collaboration with leading artists, architects & designers.
• Byron Writers Festival (NSW)
  Byron Writers Festival is a non-profit member organisation presenting workshops and events year-round, including the annual Festival.
• Design Tasmania (TAS)
  Design Tasmania is a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to support and sustain design.
• Expressions Dance Company (QLD)
  Expressions Dance Company is one of Australia's premier contemporary dance companies offering an annual program of world class productions and tours.
• Gondwana Choirs (NSW)
  Gondwana National Choirs brings Australia's finest young singers together in a remarkable tradition of choral excellence.
• Ilbijerri Theatre Company (VIC)
  Ilbijerri is Australia’s leading and longest running Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Company.
• La Mama (VIC)
  La Mama Theatre is nationally and internationally acknowledged as a crucible for cutting edge, contemporary theatre since 1967.
• Linden New Art (VIC)
  Linden New Art is a unique not-for-profit contemporary art gallery in the heart of St Kilda.
• Melbourne Writers Festival (VIC)
  Melbourne Writers Festival is for everyone who reads. It brings together writers from around the world to celebrate literature, explore ideas, and inspire readers.
• Murray Art Museum Albury (NSW)
  MAMA is more than a showcase for art, MAMA is an all-encompassing contemporary art experience that balances international touring exhibitions with deep connections to our surrounding regional area and cultural identity.
• Perth Festival (WA)
  Perth International Arts Festival curates and presents an annual arts festival of the highest international quality. PIAF aspire to create new work and stimulate discourse about WA.

Australian Cultural Fund Boost

The 2020/21 ACF Boost was open to independent artists and arts organisations across Australia with a preference given to projects residing, practicing in or touring work to bushfire or drought affected regions. Recipients were eligible for up to $5,000 of matched funding to put towards their project.

In 2017/18 ACF Boost was offered for the first time with one-off, matched funding to first-time users of the Australian Cultural Fund (ACF). Artists who were new* to the ACF were eligible for a $2,000 boost to put towards their project, thanks to our Plus1 program.

Funding recipients for 2020/2021

Congratulations to the 22 independent Australian artists and art organisation who will be part of this year’s ACF Boost program, with over $100,000 offered in matched funding! We are able to offer up to $5,000 in matched funding to put towards their projects that will be fundraising on the Australian Cultural Fund platform between 1 – 31 May 2020.

• Sally McLean (VIC) - $3,500
  Dark Arcadia
• Katie Noonan (QLD) - $5,000
  Australian Vocal Ensemble – AVE
• The Space Company (VIC) - $3,000
  Stardust + The Mission (double bill)
• Kath Papas Productions (VIC) - $4,880
  The Phoenix Tour: Give Gippsland a Phoenix For Christmas!
• Soundstream New Music (SA) - $4,600
  Regional SA Tour of 'Primordial'
• Endangered Productions (NSW) - $5,000
  The Coffee Cantata - Bach's moral mayhem comes to rural NSW
• Katie Yap (VIC) - $5,000
  HOME
• Itet - John Noble's Quartet Program (VIC) - $3,000
  Itet - John Noble's Quartet Program, Bairnsdale
• Stephen Kok (NSW) - $4,000
  Word Smith Volume 2
• Sydney Improvised Music Association (NSW) - $5,000
  Sydney Improvised Music Associations Regional Touring Fund
• MZAZA (QLD) - $5,000
  MZAZA’s The Birth and Death of Stars Tour
• Lewis Major Projects (SA) - $5,000
  S/WORDS - A new contemporary dance work
• Spinifex Gum (VIC) - $5,000
  Spinifex Gum - Sunshine
• Hannah Lane (VIC) - $4,100
  Ensemble 642 - Digital Music Recording and Video
• Steel City Strings (NSW) - $5,000
  Virtual Concert by SCS Quartet
• Interweave Arts (TAS) - $5,000
  Remade Creatives Network
• Writers Republic (QLD) - $5,000
  The Bunker Spoken Word
• Sydney Chamber Opera (NSW) - $5,000
  Digital Streaming of Breaking Glass World Premiere
• Australian String Quartet (SA) - $5,000
  ASQ Encores – commissions to celebrate Australian composers
• Word Travels (NSW) - $5,000
  Slam Your Poetry - in schools
• Burrinja (VIC) - $4,475
  Ode to Burrinja - a performance poetry production
• GUTS Dance Central Australia (NT) - $5,000
  Value For Money

Funding recipients for 2017/2018

42 diverse independent arts, artistic groups and arts organisations from around the country raised over $170,000 during their ACF Boost campaigns. Those who raised over $2,000 received a boost of $2,000.

• 15 Minutes from Anywhere (VIC) - $2,000
  Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl
• AJZ Productions (SA) - $2,000
  True North Youth Theatre Ensemble Pathways project
• André Piguet (VIC) - $2,000
  GLASSHOUSE/STONEHOUSE residency, France
• Angela Little (NSW) - $2,000
  Studying Screen Scoring, USC Los Angeles
• Angelo Salamanca (VIC) - $2,000
  Broken Boat
• Black Hole Theatre (VIC) - $2,000
  The Line
• Boxcopy (QLD) - $2,000
  Boxcopy Exhibition Program 2018-19
• Canberra Wind Symphony (ACT) - $2,000
  Canberra Wind Symphony 2018 Season
• Clocked Out (QLD) - $2,000
  The Listening Museum 3: Clocked Out
• Daisy Sanders with Emma Fishwick, Jay Emmanuel and Lisa Nakaora (WA) - $2,000
  A RESTING MESS - Finland residency
• Dan Koop (VIC) - $2,000
  New Developments: Dan Koop & Jamie Lewis
• Daniel Schlusser Ensemble (VIC) - $2,000
  They Divided The Sky
• Diane Malet (SA) - $1,421
  inMotion Gallery
• Emma Hall (VIC) - $2,000
  World Problems
• Flying Arts Alliance (QLD) - $2,000
  Art for Life
• Frank's Fantastic Fairy Tale Theatre (NSW) - $2,000
  Frank's Fantastic Fairy Tale Theatre
• Hattie Archibald (NSW) - $2,000
  Gut Feeling
• InkMasters Cairns Inc. (QLD) - $2,000
  InkMasters Print Exhibition 2018
• Karen Vanspall (VIC) - $2,000
  The Paris Salon – Liszt & Chopin
• Lor Journal (VIC) - $2,000
  Lor Journal Contributor Payments
• Lucas Li (VIC) - $2,000
  Unbroken
• LWDance Hub (SA) - $2,000
  Mind The Gap residency
• Mackay Chamber Music Festival (QLD) - $2,000
  Mackay Chamber Music Festival
• Marian Street Theatre for Young People (NSW) - $2,000
  New Work for Young People - 'Seahorse'
• Maura Pierlot (ACT) - $2,000
  Fragments
• Must Go Faster (NSW) - $2,000
  Conspirituality
• Noosa Regional Gallery (QLD) - $2,000
  No Human Being is Illegal: evolution
• Perth International Jazz Festival (WA) - $2,000
  PIJF Performing Artist Fund
• Playlab (QLD) - $2,000
  Build Theatre that Matters
• Rachael Woodward (WA) - $2,000
  Valentine's Little Light
• Rebecca Thomson (TAS) - $2,000
  Women Of The Island
• Rebecca Thomson and Claire d’Este (TAS) - $2,000
  Sisters Unearthly
• Romi Kupfer (VIC) - $2,000
  Singing Swallows
• Seen & Heard Cabaret (VIC) - $2,000
  Seen & Heard Cabaret 2018 Tour
• Shane W Smith (ACT) - $2,000
  Triumviratus: 540 page graphic novelap
• Smarter Pictures (INT) (NSW) - $2,000
  ROCKET MAN
• The José Carbó Trio (QLD) - $2,000
  The José Carbó Trio Recording
• The Strides (NICK GARBETT) (NSW) - $2,000
  Help release The Strides fourth album!
• Timothy Monley (WA) - $2,000
  Caves House - Place of Love
• Tom Blake (NSW) - $2,000
  Exhibition at Artsource Customs House
• Victoria Schnaedelbach (VIC) - $2,000
  Colour by Numbers Documentary Project
• WITS - Women in Theatre and Screen (NSW) - $2,000
  FESTIVAL FATALE

Other Programs

We provide support to arts professionals through a range of opportunities.

APIEF Residential Training program 2019

In 2019, we provided six early to mid-career arts fundraisers the opportunity to attend an upcoming training event, the Asia Pacific Institute in Educational Fundraising (APIEF).

• Vanessa, Lloyd (NSW)
  General Manager at Performance Space
• Rebecca, Kais (WA)
  Foundation Manager at Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Simon, Gregg (VIC)
  Director at Gippsland Art Gallery
• Georgia, Wilson (NSW)
  Development Coordinator at Australian Theatre for Young People
• Benjamin, Lee (VIC)
  Patrons Manager at The Australian Ballet
• Meredith, Dellar (NT)
  Development & Communications Manager at Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

APIEF Online Training Program 2021

In 2021, we provided 20 early to mid-career arts fundraisers with the opportunity to participate in the Asia Pacific Institute in Educational Fundraising (APIEF) online training event.

• Anais Maro (ACT)
  Canberra Youth Theatre
• Jodie Cunningham (ACT)
  Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre
• Stella Kirkby (NSW)
  Performance Space
• Claudia Rowe (NSW)
  Australian Museum
• James Buchanan (NSW)
  Orange Regional Conservatorium
• Bryce Youngman (NSW)
  Poetry In Action
• Julie Englefield (QLD)
  Australian Dance Council, Ausdance (QLD) Inc
• Karina May (QLD)
  Mackay Regional Council - Artspace Mackay
• Abbie Taylor (SA)
  Adelaide Festival Centre
• Stephanie Acraman (SA)
  Co-Opera
• Tara Falleti (SA)
  Adelaide Film Festival
• Celia Mallard (VIC)
  Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
• Annabel Cussen (VIC)
  Warrnambool Art Gallery
• Patrick Crummy (VIC)
  Melbourne Theatre Company
• Carissa Dyall (VIC)
  Australian National Academy of Music
• Alana Culverhouse (WA)
  Contemporary Dance Company of Western Australia
• Michelle Wright (WA)
  Arts Margaret River Inc
• Coralie Bishop (WA)
  West Australian Opera
• Grace Connors (WA)
  The Last Great Hunt
• Suzanna Gaunt (WA)
  Perth International Arts Festival

APIEF Online Training program 2020

In 2020, we provided 23 early to mid-career arts fundraisers with the opportunity to participate in the Asia Pacific Institute in Educational Fundraising (APIEF) online training event.

• Rhen Soggee (SA)
  ActNow Theatre
• Indi Ranson (WA)
  Artrage
• Katie Henebery (NSW)
  Australian Chamber Orchestra
• Roxy Kavanagh (VIC)
  Australian Youth Orchestra
• Sytske Hillenius (NSW)
  Bell Shakespeare
• Lisa Polten (NSW)
  Biennale of Sydney
• David Ryan (NSW)
  Cementa
• Rebecca Collings (WA)
  Co3 Australia
• Louise Dunn (SA)
  ACE Open
• Victoria Bowes (SA)
  Guildhouse Inc
• Olivia Power (SA)
  Helpmann Academy
• Miranda Borman (VIC)
  Melbourne Fringe
• Henrietta Wilson (NSW)
  National Art School
• Sophia Halloway (ACT)
  National Gallery of Australia
• Natasha King (ACT)
  National Museum of Australia
• Rachael Parsons (NSW)
  New England Regional Art Museum
• Sophie Le Butt (WA)
  Perth Festival
• Monica Curro (VIC)
  Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
• Lucy Whyte (QLD)
  Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
• Georgia Lynas (QLD)
  Queensland Theatre Company
• James Ralston (VIC)
  RISING
• Evrim Şen (VIC)
  Student Youth Network Inc.
• Zoe Scrogings (NT)
  Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal Corporation