September 20, 2017
The Create Career Fund is currently accepting applications from mid-to-late career artists like recent recipient Julia deVille, who is currently mid-way into preparing a major solo exhibition: Faunaphilia, to be held at the Linden New Art Gallery in Melbourne in 2018. Julia’s show will include an infant giraffe preserved using taxidermy techniques and encrusted with […]
September 18, 2017
Artist Angela Valamanesh explores her fascination with the intersection of the botanical and anatomical with the support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Follow the link to read the Adelaide Advertiser article. 16 September The Advertiser Both flesh and not The exhibition: Everybody’s Everything: Insect/Orchid by Angela Valamanesh is at the The University of Adelaide’s […]
September 11, 2017
Social sciences publisher Emerald Publishing is the latest business to join the Copyright Agency’s international pay-per-use content licensing portal, RightsPortal Journals. Emerald Publishing, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, will bring its impressive portfolio of peer-reviewed articles from more than 300 journals to RightsPortal Journals. RightsPortal Journals gives users the ability to conveniently […]
September 9, 2017
Three of our members artworks feature on a fleet of 60 cars currently driving through regional and city centres around Australia in celebration of Telstra’s chief sponsorship of the 34th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). Betty Pumani’s 2016 NATSIAA winning work Antara (pictured below left), Simon Hogan’s painting Lingka (centre), and Beryl Jimmy’s artwork Nyangatja Watarru (right) each feature […]
September 8, 2017
On a literary night of nights Josephine Wilson took home the Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Extinctions. Hailed by the judging panel as a clever and compassionate novel, the story follows protagonist Fred Lothian’s experiences with ageing, adoption, grief and remorse; rescue and also resistance to rescue. Read more about Josephine’s book and the […]
September 8, 2017
Australia’s most prestigious literary award has been bestowed on Josephine Wilson for Extinctions, published by UWA Publishing. In a year when the Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates its 60th anniversary, it is fitting the 2017 winning novel should address the themes of ageing and survival. Established through the will of My Brilliant Career author Miles […]
September 7, 2017
What do a taxidermist, an Indigenous writer and a poet have in common? They are the three creators who have just received funding from the Copyright Agency’s Create Career Fund. The Create Career Fund supports mid-to-late career artists and authors by providing grants that allow the time to develop new work. Grants are allocated in $10,000, $15,000 or $20,000 […]
September 6, 2017
Streem, Australia’s first real-time media intelligence provider, has entered into a content licensing agreement with the Copyright Agency, acting on behalf of Australia’s market-leading publishers. Building on Streem’s existing data agreements, the new content licensing agreement covers news and information across publishers including News Corp, Fairfax Media, Bauer Media, WAN, Pacific Magazines and more. Formally […]
