Support grant for practising artists

An artist support grant aiming to rebuild the City of Sydney's creative workforce.

The grant supports professional practising artists from priority communities* to continue to live and practice in Sydney.

Key details

• Applications open Tuesday 21 July

• Applications close 4pm, Tuesday 1 September

• Applicants notified of the outcome of their application in November

• Funding available from 1 January 2027

• Cash funding of $25,000 per person, for one year.

The funding is available to support any aspect of creative practice as well as cost of living and costs of producing new work.

*Priority communities

Communities that may experience heightened inequality and barriers to social, economic, cultural, political and environmental resources, services and support, including:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

• people on low incomes

• people renting including social housing residents

• people experiencing homelessness

• people with disability

• people with lived experience of a mental health and/or chronic condition

• people over 65

• young people and children under 5

• new immigrants, non-citizens and refugees

• people with English as a second language

• people of diverse sexualities and genders

• women and girls.

Visit the the website to find out more and to book in a time to chat to the grants team directly about your project.

Information session

Register here for the Creative grants briefing from 11:30am to 12:30pm on Tuesday 21 July.