Lismore-based artist with disability Jeremy Hawkes has been awarded a $30,000 2018/19 Creative Development Fellowship from Create NSW that will support him in completing studio based research and development, fund a residency at the Berlin Art Institute, see him attend national and international arts conferences and study at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. Read more
Regional screen industry organisation Screenworks and Los Angeles-based Australians in Film (AiF) have made a nationwide call-out for regional screenwriters and content creators to apply for its inaugural Regional Screen in LA Scholarship Program. Read more
Creating New Income, a new toolkit aimed at helping small to medium arts, screen and cultural organisations to flourish was launched by Minster for the Arts Don Harwin at Artstate Bathurst today. Read more
Murray Arts are seeking passionate and active representatives from local arts organisations to become members of the inaugural Murray Arts Strategic Advisory Council (SAC). The SAC sits alongside the Murray Arts Board to assist in guiding the direction of Murray Arts and help the organisation to achieve its goals. Read more
In September 2017, Regional Arts NSW profiled Goulburn artist Mez Breeze, following her win of Best Experimental Game at the inaugural Game Design Awards in Dundee, Scotland. Since then, Breeze has continued to prove that living in the regions is no barrier to an international career, through a partnership with Microsoft, Samsung and MasterpieceVR for a VR Influencers Sustainability Initiative. Read more
A regional NSW artist's cutting-experimental computer game has been awarded Best Experimental Game at the inaugural Game Design Awards in Dundee, Scotland. Read more
Regional champion Sheena Boughen has been awarded the Creative Parterships Australia 2017 Arts Leadership Award for her outstanding and innovative work in the sector, alongside three other industry leaders. Read more
The Northern Rivers is a region of villages, most with a hall that lay at their heart. To celebrate and revitalise these spaces and their histories, Arts Northern Rivers delivered a region-wide season of contemporary arts events in seven community halls during 2016. Read more
A once flourishing cement works town, Kandos (pop. 1,200) is located 3.5 hours from Sydney between the towns of Lithgow and Mudgee. The town owes its existence to the plentiful supplies of limestone and coal in the region, which supported the former cement plant up until its closure in 2012. Read more
There has been a surge of creative entrepreneurs popping up all over Outback NSW recently Read more
When you visit Matilda Julian’s website she is described simply as ‘Fine Artist from Central Western NSW’. More specifically, Matilda is a fine artist from the tiny town (population 454 at the 2011 census) of Geurie located on the main highway between Wellington and Dubbo. Read more
Artist Shane Bates says he was 'dobbed in' to enter the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize this year. The dobber? Aboriginal Arts Officer with West Darling Arts, Kathy Graham. Read more
