{"id":31958,"date":"2025-10-15T20:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/?p=31958"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:08:14","slug":"creative-australia-invests-1-6-million-in-in-ambitious-new-commissions-for-leading-australian-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/?p=31958","title":{"rendered":"Creative Australia invests $1.6 million in in ambitious new commissions for leading Australian artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Creative Australia has announced the latest recipients of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creative.gov.au\/investments-opportunities\/vacdf-major-commissioning-projects-individuals-and-groups\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework Major Commissioning Projects<\/a>, supporting 16 artists and collectives across Australia to deliver ambitious new projects.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recipients is\u00a0Khaled Sabsabi,\u00a0who will create a major new presentation at Samstag Museum of Art. The new commission will offer Australian audiences the opportunity to experience a major new body of work from the highly acclaimed artist, following his international presentation at the Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights include\u00a0Dr Baden Pailthorpe\u00a0who is collaborating with AFL star\u00a0Adam Goodes\u00a0on a major new commission exploring sport, identity and cultural history.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Lyons, presenting a mid-career survey exhibition at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts that highlights her experimental and site-responsive practice.<\/p>\n<p>These commissions join a strong field of projects spanning painting, sculpture, craft, performance and multimedia installation, showcasing the breadth and vitality of Australian visual arts practice.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Visual Arts at Creative Australia, Michelle Newton,\u00a0said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program enables Australian artists to deliver major projects of scale and ambition, while creating opportunities for national and international presentation, The artists announced today exemplify the strength, diversity and global reach of Australian visual arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Major Commissioning Projects include\u00a0major new presentations at leading institutions, including:<\/p>\n<p>Dr Baden Pailthorpe &amp; Adam Goodes (National Portrait Gallery, ACT)<\/p>\n<p>Jean Barth (New York, details to be announced)<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hookey (Moderna Museet, Stockholm)<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Lyons (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts)<\/p>\n<p>Mel O\u2019Callaghan (Sydney Opera House)<\/p>\n<p>Sara Morawetz (Contemporary Art Tasmania)<\/p>\n<p>Khaled Sabsabi (Samstag Museum of Art, SA)<\/p>\n<p>Naina Sen with Naveed Farro and Harrison Hall (Adelaide Film Festival Expand Lab Moving Image Commission and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art)<\/p>\n<p>The commissions also support\u00a0significant new projects and collaborations\u00a0from artists including:<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Ah Kee and Hoda Afshar<\/p>\n<p>Dr Peta Clancy<\/p>\n<p>Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM<\/p>\n<p>James Nguyen<\/p>\n<p>Emily Parsons-Lord<\/p>\n<p>Izabela Pluta, co-commissioned by The Lock-Up (Newcastle) and an international partner<\/p>\n<p>Erin Dickson<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dorabialski<\/p>\n<p>Delivered annually, the Major Commissioning Projects are part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creative.gov.au\/investments-opportunities\/multi-year-investment\/visual-art-craft-design-framework\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework<\/a>, a nationally coordinated investment partnership with states and territories to support the Australian contemporary visual art, craft and design sector.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are peer assessed against published criteria of quality, viability and impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Australia has announced the latest recipients of its\u00a0Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework Major Commissioning Projects, supporting 16 artists and collectives across Australia to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31960,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31959,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31958\/revisions\/31959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seasiaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}