04/09/2026
Almost $1.2 million in grants have been announced under the the Arts and Culture Grants Program.
Restless Dance 'Intimate Space'. Photography: Shane Reid
A total of 56 applications across 9 categories were recommended for grants, covering a wide range of artistic disciplines.
Just some of the successful recipients include:
- $100,000 for a collaboration between Mimili Maku Arts and the Art Gallery of South Australia for a major presentation of the work of Wati Studio as part of Tarnanthi 2027
- $39,782 for Mid North Arts for Tiny, a child-led public art project that will transform a 400-metre section of Burra Creek into an interactive nature-based trail
- $15 000 for Tutti Arts to launch a virtual exhibition environment that enables digital, time-based and physical artworks to be presented through a 3D online gallery platform.
Of the applications supported:
- 12% of funded activity will be led by First Nations artists
- 34% will involve First Nations participants
- 32% will involve d/Deaf and disabled people
- 55% will involve culturally and linguistically diverse people
- 25% will involve regional and/or remote participants.
The funding boost will support activity expected to employ 358 artists, 126 arts workers and 184 others, with more than 38,000 employment hours anticipated. It will also contribute to total projected expenditure of more than $2.6 million.
The tables below capture all recommended applications.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants – Professional Development
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Derek Jungarrayi Thompson and Anne Thompson
|
Ceramic Residency at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China
|
$10,000
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Iwiri Aboriginal Organisation
|
Iwiri Arts Ceramics Professional Development Project
|
$9,912
|
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants – Projects
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Performing Arts
|
Australian Dance Theatre
|
BLAKSMITH creative development
|
$24,747
|
|
Visual Art, craft and design
|
Heysen Sculpture Biennial Inc
|
Heysen Sculpture Biennial 2027
|
$14,000
|
|
Visual Art, craft and design
|
Mr Dominic Guerrera
|
Responding to Country Yitpi Yartapulitku
|
$19,970
|
|
Visual Art, craft and design
|
Art Gallery of South Australia
|
CIPX Kaurna Miyurna (Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange)
|
$21,371
|
Major Projects – Collaboration
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mimili Maku Arts
|
Melting Point Mimili Maku Arts x Art Gallery of South Australia
|
$100,000
|
|
Performing arts
|
Restless Dance Theatre
|
Shorts
|
$100,000
|
Market Development
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Literature
|
Writers SA
|
Splinter journal - Interstate and International events
|
$14,929
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Artlink Australia
|
Artlink Market Development in Aotearoa New Zealand
|
$2,582
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mr Andrew Carvolth
|
National Market Development for Andrew Carvolth, Designer Maker
|
$14,386
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Tutti Arts Inc
|
Tutti Arts - 3D Online Gallery Platform
|
$15,000
|
|
Performing arts
|
ActNow Theatre
|
ActNow Theatre Partnership Development and Cultural Exchange of Artistic Practice in India at Thespo Youth Arts Festival (Mumbai) and Serendipity Festival (Goa)
|
$10,880
|
|
Performing arts
|
Lewis Major Projects
|
Building Sustainable Asian Touring Pathways
|
$10,710
|
|
Performing arts
|
Open Space Contemporary Arts T/A OSCA
|
Marketing OSCA and tour ready projects
|
$15,000
|
Professional Development
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Ms Alexandra Hirst
|
Jingdezhen Residency (China)
|
$14,745
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mr André Zufferey
|
Curatorial project and mentorship with SOLO Contemporary in Madrid, Spain.
|
$9,439
|
|
Performing arts
|
Mr William Burton
|
Contemporary Solo Saxophone Practice Through International Mentorship with Bendik Giske (Berlin)
|
$14,431
|
|
Performing arts
|
The Playwrights Collective
|
The Playwrights Collective
|
$11,200
|
|
Performing arts
|
Open Space Contemporary Arts T/A OSCA
|
SITE-BASED PRACTICES - residency and workshops
|
$15,000
|
Projects – Independent Artists and Groups
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Literature
|
Ms Gemma Parker
|
En Plein Air
|
$18,224
|
|
Literature
|
Science Write Now
|
The Little Things
|
$19,898
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Ms Catherine Truman
|
Time-being: the shared body
|
$18,450
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Ms Alice McCool
|
Exhibition, Performance and International Engagement in Korea
|
$8,941
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mr Nicholas Hanisch
|
Development of new work for major interstate solo exhibition
|
$17,619
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mr Roy Ananda
|
The development of a new body of sculptural work across one year of intensive studio practice.
|
$18,524
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Ms Truc Truong
|
Feast and Fiction
|
$25,916
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mrs Deborah Paauwe
|
Solo exhibition at Fabrik Arts + Heritage during SALA Festival 2027
|
$13,542
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Noah Hartley
|
Production of Solo Exhibition at JamFactory
|
$11,120
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Carney x Tons
|
Utography
|
$28,723
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Heysen Sculpture Biennial Inc
|
Heysen Sculpture Biennial 2027
|
$20,000
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mr Tristan Jalleh
|
Haunted Constructions
|
$12,400
|
|
Performing arts
|
Ms Astrid Pill
|
I Hide In Bathrooms - 2 venue Interstate tour
|
$28,000
|
|
Performing arts
|
Dr Anne Cawrse
|
Prayers, Elegies and Strange Songs Recording Project
|
$26,038
|
|
Performing arts
|
Dr Jesse Budel
|
Triptych: Community Halls Reawakened
|
$16,205
|
|
Performing arts
|
Mr Duncan Graham
|
Buried/Enfui
|
$13,130
|
|
Performing arts
|
Mx Yoz Mensch
|
My Grandpa Doesn't Follow Me on Instagram — Regional Tour
|
$7,975
|
|
Performing arts
|
South Australian Playwrights Theatre
|
Typhoon
|
$17,000
|
|
Performing arts
|
Ms Joanne Hartstone
|
The Lady of Lies - Stage 1 Creative Development
|
$18,940
|
|
Performing arts
|
Mr Max Grynchuk
|
Señor Pivo
|
$22,139
|
|
Performing arts
|
Mr Kultar Ahluwalia
|
BUILD-A-BEAT: Stage 2 Creative Development
|
$12,947
|
|
Performing arts
|
Elizabeth Hay and Ashton Malcolm
|
New Kid: Stage Two Creative Development
|
$9,994
|
|
Performing arts
|
Ms Ade Suharto
|
A Triple Bill
|
$14,040
|
|
Performing arts
|
Mrs Renee Gentle
|
The Regulation Reset - Phase 2 Script Development
|
$10,300
|
|
Performing arts
|
Adelaide Baroque
|
Reflecting Roots
|
$25,666
|
|
Performing arts
|
Smiling Bear
|
WOOF - Creative development + Brink X InSPACE Residency
|
$24,560
|
|
Performing arts
|
Miss Taylor Nobes
|
'A Guide To Success In The Workplace' Development
|
$17,961
|
|
Performing arts
|
Adelaide Ballet
|
Baroque in Line
|
$13,890
|
|
Performing arts
|
Ms Margie Fischer
|
73: The Variety Show
|
$23,143
|
Projects – Community
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Performing arts
|
ActNow Theatre
|
‘Everything I Was Told Not To Be’: Second stage of co-design and creative development
|
$39,988
|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
Mid North Arts
|
Tiny
|
$39,782
|
|
Performing arts
|
Restless Dance Theatre
|
Restless Dance Theatre Community Connect
|
$40,000
|
Projects – Public Art and Design
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Visual art, craft and design
|
City of Onkaparinga
|
Thalassa Park Commission - Activating Place Through Storybook Walk
|
$15,000
|
Projects – Touring Support
| Art form | Applicant | Project title | Amount |
|---|
|
Performing arts
|
Chamber Music Adelaide
|
Chamber Music on Tour: Regional Connections
|
$46,745
|
|
Performing arts
|
Restless Dance Theatre
|
Intimate Space - Singapore
|
$50,000 |
