19 November 2025
Regional Arts Fund Supports 25 New Projects Across NSW in 2026
The Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund will provide $620,000 to support 25 new projects in regional, rural, and remote New South Wales in 2026.
Australian Government Minister for the Arts, the Hon Tony Burke MP said, “Where you live, shouldn’t dictate your level of involvement within Australia’s art sector. This funding will create over 850 jobs for regional artists and arts workers across Australia.
“From Mullumbimby, to Emerald, Warrnambool and Rapid Creek, audiences will get to experience some incredible projects across a range of diff erent mediums.
“We know there’s a story for every place and a place for every story and this funding only further supports that.”
RANSW CEO, Dr Tracey Callinan OAM, commented, “This year we saw an unprecedently high demand for funding and many high quality applications. The successful applications in this year’s round of project grants from the Regional Arts Fund are a testament to the quality of and need for the arts in regional NSW and the impact it has in regional communities.”
The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government program that supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote communities in Australia. The program is managed by Regional Arts Australia and administered in New South Wales by Regional Arts NSW.
2025/26 Recipients
|
Name |
Project Title |
Funding |
|
Aboriginal Regional Arts Alliance (NSW) Aboriginal Corporation |
We Weave Together – Yinaar Weaving Gathering |
$30 000.00 |
|
Albury City Council – Write Around the Murray |
Write Around the Murray 20th Festival Showcase Celebration Evening |
$14 960.00 |
|
Amala Groom |
One Hundred Years since the beginning of time |
$20 000.00 |
|
ArtFarm Ltd |
Speaking Place |
$19 000.00 |
|
Arts Upper Hunter |
Visuaural – a public program melding sound and visual art |
$28 585.00 |
|
Bank Art Museum Moree |
Gomeroi Light – Mona Fernando |
$28 512.00 |
|
Bundanoon Folk Festival |
Sustaining & Expanding Bundanoon Folk Festival- Grant Funding to Propel Us To Self-Sustainability |
$23 200.00 |
|
Creative Caldera Incorporated |
Lava Arts Festival |
$7 500.00 |
|
Jessie Bell |
The Beach- A sensory led theatrical experience |
$29 079.30 |
|
Lithgow Information & Neighbourhood Centre (LINC) |
WEST: a creative engagement project for the young people of Bowenfels |
$25 500.00 |
|
Madika Penrith |
Wiradjuri Country Sound History |
$30 000.00 |
|
Milton Folk Jazz and Blues Festival Incorporated |
Milton Folk Jazz and Blues Festival |
$29 650.00 |
|
Mudjingaal Yangamba |
Mudjingaal Yangamba – Yawa Bulwal (Truth Telling) Debut Album Recording and Release |
$29 590.00 |
|
New England Regional Art Museum |
New Horizons: Emerging Voices in Landscape |
$30 000.00 |
|
Peggy Zephyr |
The Cost Of Living – Peggy Zephyr’s Supermarket |
$29 974.00 |
|
Rebel Black |
Resonance – Artist Residencies & Sound Futures in Lightning Ridge |
$29 750.00 |
|
Shoalhaven Regional Gallery |
Ngaoara Fellowship and Exhibition |
$27 320.60 |
|
Sprung Dance Theatre |
Investing in Deaf-led Arts and Inclusive Practice |
$29 942.80 |
|
Stonewave Taiko Inc |
Okina Mura:Big Village |
$14 879.30 |
|
Suzannah Jones |
Forged Rhythms |
$21 380.00 |
|
Tal Shemesh |
Two Truths and a Lie |
$23 000.00 |
|
Taranta Arts inc. |
Taranta Festival 2026 |
$25 000.00 |
|
The Returning Indigenous Corporation |
Bulaan Dalang Gala Naa Gan Ngaa Leen Duu Indigenous Artist Residency |
$30 000.00 |
|
Upper Hunter Shire Council |
Upper Hunter & Kia Ora Youth Music Camp 2026 |
$15 872.00 |
|
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre |
Mercury Rising |
$27 305.00 |
For any enquiries please contact:
Francesca Castro
Funding and Development Manager, RANSW
Phone: 02 9270 2500
Image: Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, ‘Tape It! ‘, 2024. Photo by Ash Smith Photography.
