our supporters

  • Suzie Miller

    Award winning playwright & s/writer

  • Tim Winton

    Australian fiction & short story writer

  • Charlotte Wood

    Multi-Award winning author of 7 novels

  • Christos Tsiolkas

    Author, playwright & screenwriter

  • Lehmo

    Comedian, actor, & radio presenter

  • Rhys Muldoon

    Actor, writer, Director for film, TV & theatre

  • Ben Law

    Writer, author, & broadcaster

  • Kaz Cooke

    Author, cartoonist & broadcaster

  • Sally Seltmann

    Singer, songwriter, and record producer

  • Darren Middleton

    Guitarist & songwriter for Powderfinger

  • Jane Harber

    Actress on Offspring, Secret Life of Us

  • Dave Williams

    Drummer from Augie March, Liz Stringer

  • Aviva Tuffield

    Publisher & founder of the Stella Prize

  • Annie Maynard

    Upper Middle Bogan, Colin From Accounts

  • Gab Strum

    Songwriter, Producer, Japanese Wallpaper

  • Mithila Gupta

    Screenwriter Bump, Winners & Losers

  • Rachel Gordon

    Actress Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Moodys

  • Ruth Clare

    Award-winning author, actor, scientist

  • Robyn Malcolm

    Actress Heartbreak High, Rake, Wake in Fright

  • Scott Major

    Actor, Director, Riptide, Heartbreak High,

  • Prof David Throsby

    Macquarie Uni, Prof of cultural economics,

  • John Collee

    S/Writer Happy Feet, Master & Commander

  • Helena Brooks

    Film & TV Director Black Snow

  • Ditch Davey

    Paper Dolls, Blue Heelers, Spartacus

  • Lorin Clarke

    Director, writer, performer

  • Sue Maslin

    Producer of Road to Nhill, The Dressmaker

  • Sophie Cunningham

    Author, editor, co-founder of Stella Prize

  • Emily Bitto

    Award-winning author of The Strays

  • Carly Findlay OAM

    Writer, speaker, & arts worker

  • Sian Prior

    Arts journalist & author

  • Anna Glynn

    Multi-award winning visual artist

  • Silvia Colloca

    Actress, opera singer, author

  • Peter Mattessi

    Writer for EastEnders, Death in Paradise

  • Jock Serong

    Award winning writer of Quota, Cherrywood

  • Kate Liston-Mills

    Journalist, writer, and poet

  • Magdalena McGuire

    Award winning short fiction writer

  • Alison Ball

    Stage, film, TV actor & writer

  • Lucy Treloar

    Multi-Award winning Australian author

  • Sophie Dillman

    Australian television actress

  • Mark Rubbo

    Book and music retailer, Readings

  • Dr Danielle Clode

    Award winning author of fiction & history

  • Linda Jaivin

    Author, translator, essayist, and novelist

  • Holden Sheppard

    Prize winning Western Australian author

  • Kit Warhurst

    Musician, songwriter, and composer

  • Louise Schultze

    Head of Australian Production House

  • Danielle Boesenberg

    film & TV editor, Colin From Accounts

  • Catherine Alcorn

    Award winning artist, producer & director

  • Anna Downes

    Author The Safe Place, Red River Road

  • Kelly Thompson

    Photographer, illustrator, designer

  • Mads Dyer

    Writer, Director, Actor: Colin from Accounts

  • Lyn Yeowart

    Author, editor, and manuscript assessor

  • Sarah Carroll

    Country, rock, folk singer and songwriter

  • The Maes

    Contemporary Melbourne folk band

  • Grace Chan

    Award-winning spec fiction writer

  • Robyn Arianrhod

    Australian science writer and historian

  • Sam Meikle

    Writer & Showrunner, Wakefield, MaveriX

  • Hugh McGinlay

    Singer, songwriter, & optimist

  • Simon Burke

    Singer, songwriter of soul, jazz & blues

  • Aaron McCann

    Writer, actor, Director, YouTube phenomenon

  • Van Walker

    Singer, songwriter, Swedish Magazines

  • Emily Brewin

    Melbourne-based author of YA fiction

  • Hayley Scrivenor

    Author Dirt Town, Girl Falling

  • Tai Snaith

    Illustrator, artist, writer, broadcaster

  • Fleur McDonald

    Bestselling rural crime author

  • Aoife Clifford

    Author, twice Premier short story winner

  • Jane Tara

    Playwright, YA and children’s author

  • Eliza Dennis

    Dramaturg, Writer, Casting Associate

  • Kylie Stillman

    Artist, sculpture & book carvings

  • Dans Bain

    Multi-disciplinary artist, The Lost Petition

  • Maya Petrovna

    Performance artist & film composer

  • Karma Barnes

    Visual Artist and Art Therapist

  • Mark Tregonning

    Actor, theatre & film-maker

  • Elyssa Sykes-Smith

    Artist, educator & researcher

  • Beci Orpin

    Illustrator, designer, & maker

  • Guy Edmonds

    Director, writer, actor, author

  • Luke Sinclair

    Singer, songwriter, Raised by Eagles

  • Bec Smith

    Melbourne-based contemporary artist.

  • Emma Ward

    Visual artist from regional Queensland

  • Jessie Robinett

    Festival Director, venue owner

  • Dora Weekley

    Director, Snr Producer, Writer, film & TV

  • Melanie Vugich

    Still-life painter, Sydney-based artist

  • Chilu

    Visual artist, Sydney-based

  • Ka Mo

    Abstract landscape artist, Melbourne

  • Sarah McGrath

    2025 national still-life award winner

  • Jo Ann Swain

    Textile artist, pen & ink illustration

  • Toni Ware

    Fine artist, Meanjin-based

  • Sally Hastings

    Australian pop-y & surreal-y artist

  • Heidi Maunder

    Australian artist, Gadigal land

  • Emily Raubenheimer

    Still-life & landscape painter

  • Vyvyan Hammond

    NSW-based musician & performer

  • Denson Baker

    Award-winning cinematographer

  • Rain Fuller

    Award winning Oz actor & screenwriter

  • Luke Eve

    Screen Director & Producer

  • A/Prof Charles Robb

    Assoc Professor of visual arts at QUT

  • David Williams

    Visual artist, mixed media sculptor

  • Casimir Dickson

    Director of Photography

  • Thomas Duncan Watt

    LA/Sydney-based author & screenwriter

  • Davini Malcolm

    Australian actress, Director, Producer

  • Guy Morrow

    Arts academic, Melbourne University

  • Benedict Wall

    Australian & New Zealand actor

  • Toni Jordan

    Acclaimed Melbourne-based novelist

  • Sunny Leunig

    Filmmaker, writer, musician

  • Renee Brack

    Writer, Producer, Director

  • Louise Lever

    Director Geelong Pride Film Festival

  • Annette Geneva

    Writer, musician, photographer, Hobart

  • Richard James Allen

    Poet, dancer, actor, & filmmaker

  • Dean Rankine

    Comic Book Artist, Illustrator, & Writer.

  • Jessica Thompson

    Award-winning Director, Writer, Editor

  • Fran Braithwaite

    Award-winning writer, Director & Producer

  • Lucinda Cowden

    Actor and voice artist, Neighbours

  • Phil Lloyd

    Actor, writer, Moodys, Miles Barlow Review

  • Matty Taylor

    Art Director & illustrator

  • Rhett Davis

    Author of Hovering, literary contributor

  • TBC

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 our ambassadors

  • Lorin Clarke

    Lorin Clarke is a Director, Writer, and Performer. Works include Not Only Fred Dagg but also John Clarke, and The Fitzroy Diaries.

  • Mads Dyer

    Madeleine Dyer is an award-winning writer, Director & actress. Work includes Colin from Accounts, Austin, A Savage Christmas.

  • Dr Guy Morrow

    Dr Morrow is a Lecturer in Arts & Cultural Mgt at Melbourne University, & President of the International Music Business Research Association

  • Dr Ben Eltham

    Dr Ben Eltham is a Media & Communications academic at Monash University, policy adviser, and author of arts research papers.

  • Helena Brooks

    Helena Brooks is a film and television Director with projects including Black Snow, The Bad Seed, and Wellmania.

  • Christos Tsiolkas

    Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. Works include The Slap, Barracuda, and Dead Europe

  • Sunny Leunig

    Sunny dabbles in film-making, television and music composition, as well as hosting his own show on Melbourne Radio station RRR.

  • Luke Sinclair

    Luke Sinclair is a singer and songwriter playing with award winning country band, Raised by Eagles and the Luke Sinclair Set.

  • Rain Fuller

    Rain Fuller his an award-winning Australian actor and screenwriter whose works include Neighbours and The Legend of Ben Hall.

 our board

  • Lorin Clarke

    Director, Writer, Performer. Works include Not Only Fred Dagg but also John Clarke, and The Fitzroy Diaries.

  • Anna Demant

    Anna Demant is a philanthropic consultant, formerly at the Wheeler Foundation, & Australian Communities Foundation.

  • Dr Ben Eltham

    Dr Ben Eltham is a Media & Communications academic at Monash University, policy adviser, and author of arts research papers.

  • Dr Kim Goodwin

    Dr Kim Goodwin is an arts academic and researcher at Melbourne University, teaching arts management.

  • David Latham

    David Latham is an experienced media, campaign, & lobbying consultant, and Campaign Director at Save Our Arts.

  • Pelaya Arapakis

    Pelaya Arapakis is a musician, writer, and arts worker with an Arts & Cultural Mgt Masters, living on unceded Wurundjeri land.

 our allies

  • Australian Live Music Business Council

  • Australian Writers Guild

  • Australian Production House

  • Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collection Society

  • Australian Screen Sound Guild

  • Screen Producers Associaton

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