Create NSW Feature stories

Expressions of Interest are now open for creative industry organisations across regional NSW with new innovative partnerships that create opportunities or deliver outcomes for local artists and communities.

Western Sydney organisations interested in delivering new opportunities that strengthen the region’s arts, culture and creative sector are invited to apply for funding through the $2 million 2026-27 Western Sydney Strategic Partnerships Program.  

NSW’s artists and cultural producers can now apply for funding to support them in taking their exciting live shows, exhibitions and arts and cultural programs on the road for regional NSW audiences to enjoy.

Emerging fashion designers, textile practitioners and businesses across NSW can now apply for funding designed to meet their business and creative needs, from purchasing critical textile production equipment, to seizing career opportunities across the fashion and textile sector. 

The state’s next wave of fashion designers are getting runway ready, expanding their networks, and increasing their production capacity, supported by Create NSW’s Quick Response Fashion Grants Program.  

Dennis Golding still vividly remembers playing with a beaded wooden maze at the Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) in Redfern as a child. Decades later, that familiar object and the memories it holds became the inspiration for his powerful large-scale installation  Connecting Back , for the 2026 Biennale of Sydney. The work reflects on personal and collective experiences of dispossession, displacement while celebrating the enduring strength of community.

Launching today, NSW writers, illustrators, and playwrights can apply for a major new literary fellowship program, backed by $500,000 funding from Create NSW. The new Stories Matter: NSW Literary Fellowships signals a major commitment to strengthening the state’s literary ecosystem, ensuring NSW’s diverse voices and stories are celebrated and elevated globally.

The NSW Government’s trailblazing Createability program has selected 16 talented interns to embark on paid internship roles with 14 arts, screen and music industry organisations - the largest cohort of interns and host organisations the program has ever seen.  

NSW artists, producers and arts and cultural organisations can now apply for funding with Create NSW’s 2026 Regional Arts Touring Round 1 and 2026 Arts and Cultural Funding Program (ACFP) Project Funding programs opening today.  

First Nations artists are invited to honour Stolen Generations Survivors through powerful truth-telling art, to be embedded in the deeply significant site of Keller House, the heritage-listed home to the Stolen Generations Keeping Place in Parramatta North’s cultural precinct located on the lands of the Burramattagal people, a clan of the Dharug.