Grants & Awards

Working for Peace Through the Arts

Grants & Awards

Working for Peace Through the Arts

Photo: Lara Merrington

Grants & Awards

Working for Peace Through the Arts

Grants & Awards

Working for Peace Through the Arts

Photo: True North Arts Ensemble – A Sense of Home

Grants & Awards

Working for Peace Through the Arts

Image: Detail from Tracing My Journeys by Maureen Atkinson (for Bangarla Stories of Resistance)

We support artists within Australia who challenge and change the world for the better through their art. Our focus areas are human rights, social justice, Aboriginal sovereignty and environmental sustainability.

Major Grant and Peace Award

An annual grant of $10,000 is awarded to support the creation, development and/or exhibiting or staging of creative work that inspires, motivates and challenges awareness and thinking about human rights, social justice, Aboriginal sovereignty and environmental sustainability. Read more

Top left:2019 Major Grant recipient – Daz Chandler of Origami Flight with Peace Foundation founder, Leonie Ebert.

Top right: The Governor of South Australia the Hon Hieu Van Le, AC, presents Russell Bryant and Assoc. Prof. Paul Brown with the 2015 Major Grant Award.

Bottom: The 2020 Peace Award at the Adelaide Fringe Festival – presented to Kafka’s Ape.