- Cook Government provides more than $2.3 million for artists, creative industry professionals and organisations to deliver one-off projects or a program of activities
- Grant funding for round 2 of Arts Projects 2024-25 supports 45 initiatives by individuals, groups and organisations programs
- Funding to develop and deliver one-off projects or a program of activities that provide high-quality arts and cultural experiences
Western Australia's creative industries are set to reveal high-quality arts and cultural experiences through a major funding boost of more than $2.3 million invested in the sector.
A share in nearly $800,000 in grants from the 2024-25 round 2 of the Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups program will go to 21 initiatives, with a further 24 initiatives sharing in a combined $1,538,000 in grants from the 2024-25 round 2 of the Arts Projects for Organisations program.
This funding aims to expand the sector by supporting Western Australian artists and creative industry professionals and organisations to deliver outstanding and exceptional experiences that communities can actively participate and engage in.
The recipients of the 2024-25 Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups program are:
- Perth Metropolitan
- Sarah Searle - $29,900 for My Love is a Poison graphic novel
- Marie-Muriel Toulcanon - $56,336 for Sanctuary Within creative development
- Peter Farmer - $79,740 for Chirriger Kwilla: Intergenerational Noongar Totems
- Giorgia Schijf - $46,120 for Enneagon Movement program
- Vahri McKenzie - $41,109 for Ripairian creative development
- Ngatokotoru Tomokino - $39,395 for The House of Reign Presents -The Resurgence Ball 2025
- Bruno Booth - $29,853 for Sounds of Some Summer creative development
- Great Southern
- Hunter Smith - $5,045 for residency and exhibition at Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany
- Australia wide
- Darcie Schlink - $31,946 for Darcie Haven artistic development
- Andrea Onamade - $20,101 for Drea debut album
- Louise Devenish - $25,950 for Dark Oceanography creative development
- Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon - $35,855 for Axe Marks in Tree Trunks development
- Elise Reitze-Swensen - $40,790 for Matrescence in Sound: Exploring Motherhood through Music
- Erin Coates - $20,394 for The Boneyard creative development
- Gillian O'Shaughnessy - $43,321 for flash fiction publication
- Jack Augustine Irvine Mitchell - $79,298 for Crayfish Dreaming development
- Jessee Johns - $33,238 for residency and presentation at The Unconformity, Tasmania
- Siddharth Pattni - $22,062 for Flinders Lane Gallery exhibition, Melbourne
- International
- Tanya Schultz - $26,434 for residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre
- Isha Mott - $58,525 for international tour of KiN
- Hock Meng Desmond Mah - $26,040 for Testament: Resilience and Resistance in a Colonial Present creative development
The recipients of the 2024-25 Arts Projects for Organisations program are:
- Statewide
- Ceramic Arts Association of WA - $48,178 for WEDGE2025 - The Australian Ceramics Triennale
- Woodfordia - $57,385 for Further off the Beaten Track
- Australian Dance Council - Ausdance WA Branch - $80,000 for Western Australian dance industry capacity building
- pvi Collective - $80,000 for annual program of delivery
- Children's Book Council of Australia, Western Australian Branch - $80,000 for CBCA WA Children's Book Week 2025
- Perth Metropolita
- Same Drum - $79,986 for 2026 Akolkol Dastan Gesa program
- Australian Plays Transform - $50,640 for Words in Motion development
- Agency 296 - $60,300 for Karrikin
- Perth International Cabaret Festival - $80,000 for Perth Cabaret Festival 2025 programme
- Freeze Frame Opera - $79,991 for Dead Man Walking
- Performing Lines WA - administered grant for Blake Anderson - $58,064 for Clawset development
- Auspicious Arts Projects - administered grant for Emma Fishwick - $29,500 for I Promise You This Time It's True residency and creative development
- Wheatbelt
- Beverley Station Arts - $79,284 for Growing along the Line annual program
- Great Southern
- Denmark Arts Council - $70,813 for Denmark Arts annual program
- Performing Lines WA - administered grant for Andrea Gibb - $61,954 for The Fire Project creative development
- The Big HOO-HAA! - $76,617 for HOO-HAA! regional tour 2025
- International Art Space - $79,950 for Circular Economies stage two development
- South West
- Nannup Music Club - $80,000 for Nannup Music Festival 2026
- Arts Margaret River - $55,000 for Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival 2025
- Gascoyne
- Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation - $27,048 for Inggarda Warralanyi - Singing in Inggarda: Traditional Songs of Country
- Goldfields
- Spinifex Arts Project Aboriginal Corporation - $57,600 for Tjuta Milpa Stories (Many Milpa Stories)
- Peel
- Mandurah Performing Arts - $80,000 for Mandurah Performing Arts Centre's annual program
- Australia wide
- Cloning Music - $38,215 for 2025 headline Australian tour
- International
- Great Gable Music - $47,495 for Small Fry album tour
As stated by Creative Industries Minister Simone McGurk:
"Western Australia's culture and the arts sector is thriving, now more than ever, thanks to this major funding boost.
"These projects and initiatives are helping to develop and secure a strong and sustainable future for 'Made in WA's' creative industries, artists and organisations.
"Funding from the Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups and Arts Projects for Organisations programs will help local artists and industry professionals to deliver high quality projects that will actively engage the community."
