Create Grants 2026 Recipients
| RECIPIENT | AMOUNT | ACTIVITY |
| Visual artist, George Egerton-Warburton (Western Australia) | $20,000 | “Super Animal”, a video and installation project, is an empathetic artwork involving genuine risk taking; engaging with an Australian public through filmed interviews, while engaging with the natural environment in a challenging way. “Super Animal” will be exhibited at the Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA, curated by Ellie Buttrose. |
| Visual artist, Morgan Hogg (New South Wales) | $20,000 | “Pe’e” (working title) investigates contemporary pathways for passing on ancestral traditions and stories. Through the documentation and archiving of oral storytelling practices, “Pe’e” fosters renewed respect for ancestors, culture, and community, — connecting Sydney, Rarotonga, and Rapa Nui through shared responsibility, care, and continuity. |
| Author, Sarah Kanake (Queensland) | $20,000 | “Lazarus; or, The Whale” is an Australian Gothic/Crime/landscape novel set at the end of commercial whaling in Australia and blends aspects of crime and landscape writing while centring maternal experiences within traditionally male-dominated maritime landscapes and literature. |
| Author, Matthew Lamb (Tasmania) | $20,000 | The second volume of the Frank Moorhouse cultural biography, Frank Moorhouse: Ways of Going, will offer a comprehensive account of Moorhouse in the years in which he wrote his masterworks – including his seminal Edith Campbell Berry trilogy – but also to mount the argument that Moorhouse’s whole body of work effectively re-imagined the very foundations of Australia’s national culture.
Frank Moorhouse (1938-2022) was an acclaimed Australian author, intellectual, and advocate for free-expression, anti-censorship, copyright, and artists’ rights. It was Moorhouse’s famous 1974 copyright court case that led directly to the formation of Copyright Agency Ltd. |
| Author, Lucy Nelson (New South Wales) | $20,000 | To write a new novel, “The Estrangements”. The story spans prolonged periods of estrangement between two uncannily close sisters. As the causes and consequences of each estrangement are revealed, the story examines the human capacity for self-deceit and asks why we are so deeply afraid of being known. |