The Basil Sellers Art Prize is an acquisitive biennial award celebrating artistic excellence and supporting creative practitioners. Offering a prize pool of over $30,000 their prize champions 2D artworks in traditional mediums of painting, drawing, and printmaking (unique state). Finalists from across Australia are eligible for the $25,000 acquisitive award generously supported by Mr. Basil…
Grants of up to $1,000 are available for artists or organisations including museums and historical societies working across all artforms in the Upper Hunter region. The grants are aimed at helping artists and arts organisations to take a small but crucial step forward in their creative pursuits. Note that there is a limited pool of…
MusicNSW is looking for tour-ready original artists from across regional NSW that want to connect with other artists, grow new audiences, learn more about touring – and of course – hit the road to play shows! Selected artists will participate in one of five regional tours: South Coast Tour: Featuring First Nations artists only, this…
In a unique initiative, HORIZONS: Creative Industries Career Launchpad is a 12-month project supporting career pathways for young creatives across regional New South Wales. With a cohort of 75 regional-based young creatives, HORIZONS seeks to demonstrate that a fulfilling creative career is not only attainable but sustainable in a regional context. Selected through an application…
Applications now open for the Regional Arts Fund 2024. Applications are now being accepted for the Regional Arts Fund (RAF), an Australian Government initiative that supports sustainable cultural development in regional and remote communities in Australia. The program is managed by Regional Arts Australia and Regional Arts NSW, and is designed to benefit regional and…
The board and staff of Arts Upper Hunter welcome Ivan Skaines back to the board. Ivan has been a long-time supporter of AUH. He was a board member from 2019 to 2023 and Chair for two of those years. Ivan was the Acting ED in 2009. Photo courtesy of Ivan.
The Scone Arts and Crafts have launched a brand new website https://sconeartsandcrafts.org.au/ The SAC is a vibrant, membership-based community not-for-profit organisation situated in Scone, New South Wales. They are dedicated to the promotion and celebration of local arts and crafts. Through regular workshops, classes, and exhibitions, they encourage creativity and skill development. They also extend their…
Change Generators: Closure and Hope As We Move into a Post-Carbon Future will feature on Big Ideas on 3 July. On Thursday 27 June Natasha Mitchell from ABC Radio National hosted this excellent panel inspired by the LiddellWORKS exhibition, at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, before an audience of 55 interested locals. The nation-wide broadcast of the…
Arts Upper Hunter, in partnership with Tocal Homestead, Scone Museum, and Dungog Museum, is delighted to announce the successful applicants for the This Here Then Now (THTN) Museum Activation Residency Program. Funded by the Regional Arts Fund, this residency initiative aims to revitalize small local museums by creatively engaging artists with their collections, spaces, characters,…
DAS is co-ordinating a mini road trip to Singleton and Muswellbook Regional Galleries to see the fabulous LiddellWORKS exhibition. “This must-see exhibition, the culmination of our 16 artist residencies, opened 8 June 2024 in Muswellbrook and 14 June in Singleton (yes it’s spread across two galleries). LiddellWORKS is a program marking the closure of the…