Apply to live and work in one of our Darlinghurst spaces for creative professionals

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must be:

✔️ working as a professional practicing artist

✔️ living in Greater Sydney

✔️ 18 years or older (at the time of application)

✔️ a citizen or permanent resident of Australia. 

✔️ and meet our general eligibility requirements.

Additional exclusions

In addition to our general exclusions, you can’t receive an artist support grant and be a tenant of a creative live and work space program at the same time.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to sole traders.

Eligible artists include:

• Aboriginal cultural practitioners
• actors and directors
• community cultural development artists
• composers, songwriters and arrangers
• craft practitioners
• dancers and choreographers
• musicians and singers
• visual artists
• writers.

How to apply

Applications open 21 July and must be completed online.

Before you apply, we recommend you:

1. Confirm your eligibility
2. Read the information pack
3. Attend an information session
4. View the virtual property inspection

If you have any questions about your application, we encourage you to email us at [email protected] with the subject line ‘Question – Creative Live and Work’.

Glossary

Greater Sydney

Greater Sydney is the metropolitan area of the city of Sydney, including surrounding regions. Its populations regularly socialise, shop or work in Sydney, but live in the city’s suburbs or in the small towns and rural areas surrounding the city.

Greater Sydney stretches across southern and western areas in an arc to the Central Coast. It includes the Southern Highlands, Blue Mountains and Northern Beaches.

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.

Professional practicing artist

A professional practicing artist is defined as meeting one or more of the following criteria:

1. In the past 3 to 5 years has had an artistic achievement in their art form, such as:
   • a work of creative fiction or imagination accepted for publication by a recognised publishing outlet or performed by a professional stage, radio, television or film company, where a fee or royalties was received
   • a work or works shown or performed at a professional gallery or exhibition, or published by a recognised publishing outlet, or received a major public or private commission
   • an original composition, other than advertising jingles or other commercial music, performed under professional circumstances, either live, broadcast, recorded or filmed
   • a professional engagement as a director or dramatic actor or performer with a professional stage, television or film company
   • a professional engagement as a choreographer, dancer, musician or singer in a professional capacity
   • contributed to the development of a major community arts project, or played an important part in encouraging members of the community to create works of art, or a substantial artistic role in a festival or other important community arts event
2. has been engaged in the past 5 years in creating a serious and substantial body of work in their art form
3. has undertaken full-time training in their art form or in the past 3 to 5 years has received a grant to work in their art form through a public or private grant.