Australia Council has turned its Grants Program on its head

They said they’d listened; and yesterday they delivered. The AusCo’s restructured Grants Program is less convoluted but lacks detail. How will it affect you?

19 Aug 2014 12:00

Gina Fairley

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‘We hope to see more sweat and tears go into the art form, not the application form,’ said Australia Council Chief Executive Tony Grybowski.

It is a good premise from which to build a new Grants Model, but will the outcome be as smooth sailing as it purports?

Yesterday industry leaders and press assembled at the Sydney Opera House for the launch of the Australia Council for the Arts new Grants Program alongside its new five-year Strategic Plan.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina