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Perth metropolitan

• Perth Centre for Photography — $51,080 for Developing First Nations Leadership and Expanding the Future of Exposure
• Cloning Music — $51,793 for Cloning Sophomore Album 'Point Nemo' Creation and Release 2026
• Damdamé — $60,902 for Damdamé - Annual Program of Activity 2026
• Cool Change Contemporary — $61,525 for Cool Change 2026 Annual Program: Residencies
• Encounter Theatre — $79,983 for Studio Encounter
• OFS Investments — $59,019 for Digitising the Future of WA Fashion Manufacturing
• Tone List — $80,000 for Audible Edge Festival of Exploratory Music 2026
• ChitAmbara — $79,757 for The BhuMeJha Project
• Yinjaa-Barni Art Aboriginal Corporation — $58,318 for The Void Solo Exhibition by Melissa Sandy
• UWA Westerly Magazine — $20,549 for Westerly Magazine 2026: Publication Costs
• National Exhibitions Touring Structure (ART ON THE MOVE — Auspiced for Nalda Searles) — $65,855 for Monograph for Nalda Searles
• Perth Comic Arts Festival Organising Committee — $67,361 for Annual Program of Activities 2026
• The Equity Benevolent Guild of WA — $24,000 for 2026 Performing Arts WA Awards
• 360 Artist Logistics — $44,071 for Sound States Music Business Mentorship Program 2026 

Goldfields-Esperance

• Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council — $80,000 for ARTitude: Inspiring Creative Confidence and Wellbeing in Youth

Great Southern 

• Australian Baroque — $80,000 for Six Noongar Seasons premiere - Albany Bicentenary 2026
• ArtSouthWA — $37,000 for Albany Bicentenary Festival of Halls and Easter Art Festival 2026 

Pilbara

• Kunawarritji Aboriginal Corporation — $71,700 for Wild Dingo Band debut album

South West

• Arts Margaret River — $58,956 for Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival 2026
• Bunbury Fringe — $62,342 for Bunbury Fringe 2026

State-wide, national, and international

• Southern Forest Arts — $80,000 for Annual Program 2026 (State-wide)
• Seesaw Magazine — $80,000 for Strengthening WA Arts and Culture (State-wide)
• South Summit Band — $43,233 for National Tour 2026 (National)
• The Southern River Band — $71,519 for EU & UK Album Tour (International)

• Art Collective WA — $42,545 for Presenting WA artists at Melbourne & Sydney Art Fairs (National)

Recipients of the Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups program

Perth metropolitan

• Mark Neal — $63,161 for BLOOM - Western Australian music showcase
• Sarah Nelson — $80,000 for Into the Fog - Premier Season
• Glenn Watson — $50,000 for Strange Festival 2026
• Oron Catts — $61,039 for Tissue Culture & Art Project - 30-year Retrospective at AGWA
• Campbell Whyte — $40,800 for How to Survive a World on Fire - Graphic Novel
• Martina Van der Eecken — $40,874 for Art Meets Science: Sculptural Archive
• Sally Richardson — $79,976 for TROPHY - Regional Development Residencies (Harvey & Karratha)
• Nick Pages-Oliver — $58,484 for Same Time Next Week - Re-development
• Leigh Gardiner — $52,257 for Tender is the Night - 2026 Season
• Lauren Marchbank — $60,330 for A Cure for Loneliness
• Quindell Orton — $5,139 for Making of a Man
• Justine McKnight — $50,792 for Art, Design and Fashion Exhibition with Helen Britton
• The Trustee for the Alice Street Trust — $50,000 for Strange Festival 2026
• Beverley Anne Farren — $77,619 for WA Contemporary Fashion Project

Kimberley

• Monique Le Lievre — $25,236 for Stellar Moon album - production and recording

Great Southern

• Desmond Mah — $24,900 for Asia Pacific Now: Cleanse, Singapore group exhibition
• Siddharth Pattni — $44,005 for artist residency and exhibition

These investments support the development and delivery of creative works that strengthen WA's creative workforce, deepen community engagement, and contribute to a vibrant and diverse cultural landscape.

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