Share your experience
Complete the survey by 5pm, 18 September.
Share your experiences working in the creative sector
In progress
- Survey is now open.
- Survey closes at 5pm on Friday 18 September 2026.
Why we’re doing this
There are more creative workers in Greater Sydney than anywhere else in Australia. While they’re essential to our economy and way of life, they’re at risk.
Our cultural strategy includes actions to retain, rebuild and reimagine our creative workforce and cultural infrastructure. These actions were developed in consultation with the creative sector of Sydney and respond to the main challenges we heard the sector is facing.
We’re committed to a continuous process of monitoring and evolving our work to ensure we’re achieving the aims of this strategy. We know things can change quickly for our creative workforce and this annual survey will help us to monitor the sector’s wellbeing and evolve our work in response.
What we’re doing
We’re asking Greater Sydney’s creative workers to share their experience of making and hosting work.
By surveying the sector each year, we intend to unpack key challenges the sector faces and get a sense of how they change over time. This includes access to space, funding and networks to make creative work. We’ll do this by:
- understanding the composition and distribution of our creative workforce
- understanding the costs of using and operating creative spaces
- gauging the confidence or precarity our creative communities are feeling for the year ahead
- monitoring the effectiveness of the support we provide.
We’ll use the information we collect to ensure our direct support for creative work is targeted. We’ll also use it to advocate to a range of partners on areas such as affordable housing for creative workers, and affordable creative production space.
Who this survey is for
- Creative practitioners in the Greater Sydney area
- Workers directly involved in the making and presentation of arts and culture
Examples include:
- writers
- performers
- musicians
- visual artists
- craftspeople.
How you can give feedback
Complete the survey by 5pm on Friday 18 September 2026.
If you have questions about this survey or how we’ll use your answers, please contact our strategy advisor Phoebe Ludemann at [email protected].
