Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund Brochure

Supporting Australian Creativity

Angela Valamanesh’s exhibition Everybody’s Everything: Insect/ Orchid evolved from an artist’s residency at the University of Adelaide’s Rare Books & Special Collections, made possible by a $15,000 CREATE grant.

Supporting Australian creativity The Copyright Agency enhances Australian creativity in a number of significant ways.

We licence the copyright material of our 40,000 plus members, who are writers, educators, publishers and visual artists; we collect and distribute around $120 million in copyright royalty payments to members every year, and we provide about $2m per year in grants from our Cultural Fund.

Cultural Fund grants provide valuable support to cultural organisations and individuals, and underpin the development of new work that connects with and enriches the Australian community.

ANGELA VALAMANESH Insect Orchid 16, 2017.

Photo: M Kluvanek

Who we support Grants for organisations The Cultural Fund partners with the writing, publishing, education and visual arts sectors, and supports major awards and festivals. See page 12.

Grants for writers, publishers and visual artists We provide two grant types. IGNITE for professional development and CREATE for mid-career creators. See how we support writers on page 2, publishers on page 8 and visual artists on page 11.

Fellowships We provide some of the richest fellowships in Australia for writers, publishers, teachers and visual artists. Read about writers’ fellowships on page 4, teachers on page 7, publishers on page 8, and visual artists on page 11.

The Cultural Fund has provided over $25 million to support Australia’s arts and cultural sector since it began.

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Supporting Australian writers Literary awards have a profound impact on authors’ lives.

They provide much-needed financial support; enhance authors’ profiles, and help them connect with readers both in Australia and overseas.

Miles Franklin Literary Award The Copyright Agency has been a pivotal supporter of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for more than a decade, supporting the shortlisted authors with career-sustaining prize money.

We have also worked closely with the award’s trustee, Perpetual, to maximise promotion of the shortlisted and winning books to encourage readership and sales.

The Stella Prize The Cultural Fund has partnered with the Stella Prize since 2017 to provide prize money to each of the longlisted authors. This respected literary award celebrates Australian women’s writing in all its diversity.

We are absolutely focused on supporting Australian writers and publishers and recognise that these prestigious prizes elevate their recipients to a new level of recognition and readership each year.”

Copyright Agency CEO, Adam Suckling

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The six 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted authors each received $5000 from the Cultural Fund.

Pictured clockwise from top left: Michelle de Kretser (who won the award), Felicity Castagna, Catherine McKinnon, Kim Scott, Gerald Murnane and Eva Hornung.

Photos: Martin Ollman, Timothy Hiller and Noni Martin

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Supporting Australian writers Fellowships The Copyright Agency offers career-enhancing Fellowships of $80,000 to Australian writers to create significant works. Since 2014, we have supported Mark Henshaw, Melissa Lucashenko and Kathryn Heyman with grants to provide valuable time to complete a new work.

In 2018, Copyright Agency introduced a new $80,000 Fellowship for Non-Fiction Writing to fund new and important works of creative non-fiction.

KATHRYN HEYMAN accepting her $80,000 Author Fellowship.

Photo: Caitlin Hicks

“ The Fellowship... allowed me to focus purely on this difficult and ambitious novel and dedicate myself to creating a work of real excellence.”

2016 Fellowship recipient, Melissa Lucashenko

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IGNITE and CREATE grants

Writers’ festivals and events

Writers can apply for IGNITE and CREATE grants from the Cultural Fund. In 2017, writer and historian Sally Morgan received a $20,000 CREATE grant to write a new collection of stories in verse with a focus on the Pilbara region in Western Australia

The Cultural Fund partners with key writers’ events to host panels and workshops that connect with readers. In 2018, thought-provoking discussions were sponsored at both Perth Festival Writers’ Week and Adelaide Writers’ Week. The writers-on-writers sessions at Sydney Writers’ Festival, featuring Christos Tsiolkas, Alice Pung and Erik Jensen, reintroduced Australian readers to the works of their literary heroes. Australian Writers’ Week in Beijing ensures the works of our leading writers are introduced to this major marketplace.

“The support I’ve received from the grant has been wonderfully helpful. [My] research is not only laborious but very emotional, so receiving the CREATE grant has been an amazing and positive affirmation of the work I’m trying to achieve,” says Sally.

Christos Tsiolkas and Michelle de Kretser speaking at a writers-on-writers session, supported by the Cultural Fund, during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2018.

Photo: Prudence Upton

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MAD MAGPIE written and illustrated by Gregg Dreise is published

by Magabala Books. Teacher resources for the text are available on Reading Australia.

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Supporting Australian education University funding

Reading Australia

The Cultural Fund has granted tens of millions of dollars to universities in the past decade through programs such as:

An initiative of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, readingaustralia.com.au provides over 150 teacher resources to encourage the study of Australian stories in the classroom. New resources for primary and secondary students, written by teachers for teachers, are added every year, including resources for Indigenous texts – from publisher Magabala Books – podcasts and essays by prominent authors.

• Deakin University’s research into adolescent reading habits • Griffith University’s Griffith Review • Sydney University, UTS, UNSW and University of SA writers’ residencies • Murdoch and Curtin Universities’ Teacher Librarians as Australian Literature Advocates in Schools, and • La Trobe University’s Young Archaeologists Program

The Reading Australia Fellowship for Teachers of English and Literacy Awarded for the first time in 2019, this $15,000 Fellowship supports an experienced teacher with professional skills development.

All our storytellers hope that their books will sow the seeds of understanding and respect in the hearts and minds of readers.

The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and Reading Australia are helping us do just that.”

Edie Wright Chair, Magabala Books

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Supporting Australian publishing Fellowships The Copyright Agency supports our dynamic publishing industry with fellowships that provide leadership and professional development opportunities. The Fellows can attend international publishing seminars, complete publishing courses or embark on research to introduce new findings to the sector.

IGNITE grants Publishers can also apply for IGNITE grants. In 2017, the Managing Director of Insight Publications, Mizz De Zoysa-Lewis, received a grant to attend the Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing course at the Yale School of Management. “Attending this course has been one of the most satisfying and enriching learning experiences I’ve ever had,” says Mizz.

Publishing Industry Internships Since 2015, the Cultural Fund has supported the Australian Publishers Association to run the Publishing Industry Internships Program. This highly successful three-year program will support some 20 interns to gain valuable experience and industry connections with both educational and trade publishers.

Bragg UNSW Press Prizes for Best Australian Science Writing The Cultural Fund has supported UNSW Press to compile the best of Australian science writing since 2012, including fees for student and adult writers.

The Cultural Fund’s support for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Art Book Fair in March 2018 provided speaking fees for artists. More than 41,000 people attend the fair.

Photo: Tobias Titz

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JULIA DEVILLE 2017 CREATE recipient.

Photo: James Geer

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Supporting Australian artists Fellowships In 2018, the Copyright Agency introduced its first Fellowship for a Visual Artist. This Fellowship is open to established visual artists working in all mediums.

The successful artist receives a grant of $80,000 to create and develop a new work for exhibition.

IGNITE and CREATE grants Visual artists can apply for IGNITE grants for professional development and CREATE grants for mid-career artists to develop new work. Artist and taxidermist Julia deVille received a $15,000 CREATE grant in 2017 to create new work for her first major solo exhibition: Faunaphilia, at the Linden New Art Gallery in Melbourne. “The Copyright Agency funding provides a wonderful support to my research and work. This show is breaking new ground in the realms of holographic art and augmented reality and will, I hope, engage viewers in an entirely new way,� says Julia.

The Fellowship for a Visual Artist is an $80,000 grant open to established visual artists working in all mediums.

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Supporting Australian culture The Cultural Fund has provided pivotal support to Australia’s creative arts and media organisations to the tune of more than $25 million since it began.

Major partnerships have included support for: • Walkley Awards for Art Criticism (Pascall Prize) and Arts Journalism • Melbourne Press Club • The Guardian • Griffin Award for playwriting • Belvoir Company B Ltd • Australian Academy of the Humanities • Australian Network for Art & Technology • Australian Reading Hour • Australian Society of Authors • Australian Poetry Slam • Australian Children’s Laureate • Magabala Books Youth Literature Award • Australian School Library Association • State Library of Queensland • Art Gallery of NSW • National Association for the Visual Arts • The Wheeler Centre • Sydney Writers Festival • Adelaide Writers’ Week

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Australian Network for Art & Technology Combining the ying and yang of scientific practice and artistic practice might seem an unusual thing to do, but a Copyright Agency Cultural Fund-supported project, called Synapse, is doing just that, with surprising results.

The Synapse Artist Residency Program was established by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) in 2004.

It has enabled collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientific researchers.

3D artist Baden Pailthorpe is a postdoctoral fellow at UNSW Art & Design’s iCinema Research Centre.

He was paired with Aaron Coutts, a UTS professor of sports and exercise science, who works with elite athletes. Baden’s artworks are a result of that pairing which used data from AFL players and the crowd to create the art.

Baden Pailthorpe’s artwork uses data captured during a Sydney Swans versus Carlton AFL match to create a 3D animation.

Photo: Courtesy of UNSW

Michelle Kelly’s artwork Fairy Ring (overleaf) was made possible through a Cultural Fund grant of $16,000 to Guildhouse in South Australia, to run The Collections Project, a collaboration between artists and state museums.

For more information on the Cultural Fund, including grants information, application closing dates and activities supported visit copyright.com.au/ culturalfund

t: 02 9394 7600 f: 02 9394 7601

Level 12, 66 Goulburn St Sydney NSW 2000 copyright.com.au

MICHELLE KELLY Fairy Ring (detail), 2017.

Photo: Grant Hancock