January 28, 2025
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announces $754,769 in funding for 42 Australian literary and creative organisations. The second round of funding for 2024 attracted impressive applications providing pivotal support for Australia’s creative sector along with some targeted industry initiatives. The Cultural Fund’s priorities provide commissions and paid opportunities for writers and visual artists in audience development […]
November 4, 2024
James Barth: The Clumped Spirit In October, the Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane, opens the exhibition The Clumped Spirit, featuring new work by Meanjin/Brisbane artist James Barth (19 October–22 December 2024). The show is the third in the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) series of annual $80,000 commissions for artists and delivered in partnership with leading Australian […]
October 15, 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announces the three recipients of the 2024 writing fellowships for a total of $170,000, helping to usher in new Australian writing from both emerging and established authors. The Author Fellowship has been awarded to Sydney based author, artist and critic Fiona Kelly McGregor, and will support her to complete The Trap, […]
August 6, 2024
Jules Orcullo has been awarded the 2024 Griffin Award for outstanding new Australian playwriting for her play, My Dad Never Saw The Beatles. A musical, mythic retelling of an untrue event set in the Philippines in 1966, My Dad Never Saw The Beatles is about a daughter desperate to fulfil her Dad’s dreams—because in this […]
April 4, 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund welcomes the recent research published by Deakin University, which reveals Australian teens’ reading attitudes and preferences. The Cultural Fund proudly funded the project alongside other research partners: Australian Publishers Association (ASA), BookPeople, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the School Library Association of Victoria. A total 13,217 Australian secondary […]
February 22, 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announces funding of $439,840 to 27 Australian organisations for projects in 2024. The grants support projects to benefit creative writers, publishers and visual artists. In addition to this funding, the Cultural Fund will support nine national Australian writers’ festivals held in 2024. The grants will fund panel sessions and interviews with […]
December 15, 2023
Each year the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund allocates around $100,000 to the Reading Australia initiative, which supports the teaching and reading of Australian literature in schools. Originally launched in 2013, Reading Australia celebrated its 10th anniversary this year with more than 280 freely available teaching resources from Foundation to Senior Secondary. Reading Australia now has […]
September 18, 2023
The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and the Copyright Agency are pleased to announce that Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist James Barth is the third recipient of the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) commission. The $80,000 contemporary art commission is the third in an annual series presented by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund in partnership with leading Australian arts […]
