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ART RESOURCES, DIRECTORIES, AND ART ORGANISATIONS
This directory lists art organisations and other resources, as well as online art directories.
Only if we believe a source to be of relevance to Australian artists do we allow listings in our art resource section.
Artrillium House recommends this organisation for Queensland artists. They have a range of publications, low cost seminars on all issues of arts around Queensland and an artists recommendation service for commission and jobs.
Enormously comprehensive search listing of art related websites. Art Search is supporting the International arts industry and provides quick and easy access to people, businesses and websites in 3 main industries, Fine Art, Entertainment Arts and Crafts. They also content publishers for other related websites.
An eclectic mix of artists, enthusiasts, musicians, performers and comedians with a few Internet business types thrown in for good measure. The ArtsHub is an online source of Australian arts news, with a comprehensive art jobs classified service. Visited over 100,000 times each month. Over 800 arts companies advertising their latest jobs offers.
Directory for artists, their works, art organisations, institutions and suppliers including Art Dealers, Associations, Auctioneers and Valuers, Employment, Exhibition Opportunities, Framers,, Galleries, Government, Institutes, Organisations, Professional Development, Publications, Suppliers.
Comprehensive forum or on many art related issues.
A fee based online arts portal profiling Australian artists of all media - filmmakers, painters, poets, musicians, bands, actors, animators, fashion designers, graffiti artists, glass artists, jewellers, graphic designers etc. Once joined there is no extra fee for commissions or referrals made through this site.
The business.gov.au website is an easy and convenient online government resource for the Australian business community. Providing a wide range of services & information about start-up, taxation, licensing and legislation, as well as significant transactions such as ABN Lookup, taxation compliance and licence applications.
Most complete and convenient access to copyright permission for millions of publications.
Top advocacy organisation for Australia's contemporary craft and design. Its vision is as an essential contributor to Australia's national and international cultural and creative industries. Craft Australia lobbies for those industries and brings them international attention.
Access over 4,000 websites and 2.5 million pages about Australia's culture. This site has closed its ability to be searched, yet an archive of this website is still available.
Arts business resource offering a huge amount of free or to buy downloadable business forms.
Represents a range of Australian artists across painting, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics.
Philanthropy Australia is the national peak body for philanthropy and is a not-for-profit membership organisation. Our Members are trusts and foundations, families and individuals who want to make a difference through their own philanthropy and to encourage others to become philanthropists
Positive Solutions is a specialised and client focused company serving non-profit, government and commercial clients, operating from our office in Brisbane, Australia.Services include research, policy and cultural planning, facilities planning, business planning and organisational development, visual art projects and board development.
Australian ceramic art & potters resource network.
Regional Arts Australia is the key national body representing the broad and complex interests and concerns of those working with and for the arts in regional, rural and remote Australia.
Australia & NZ's not-for-profit rights management organisation for the visual arts providing copyright licensing services to a wide customer base.Representing about: 43% of Australian and NZ artists, 40,000 international artists in Australian & NZ through reciprocal agreements with 45 visual arts rights management agencies around the world. Licensing services generating over $2 million for artists in 2008-09.
The Arts Law Centre is the national community legal centre for the arts in Australia. This site keeps you up to date in the arts law world, sample contracts, legal information online,
State Government agency and major funding body dedicated to Queensland's arts. Dedicated to supporting and growing Queensland's vibrant and innovative arts by promoting a diverse, dynamic, creative culture; strengthening partnerships and collaboration; and capitalising on Queensland's unique strengths and characteristics.
Supporting a creative Australia through information, advocacy and legal advice on copyright. They also produce publications, do research, and make submissions on copyright policy issues.
Australia's Government arts funding and advisory body. Supporting Australia’s arts through funding, strengthening and developing the arts sector. Each year, they provide more than $158 million in funding for arts organisations and individual artists across the country.
Australian Commercial Gallery Association is the leading national body representing commercial art galleries. A strong collective voice for art galleries and their artists. The acga and its members play a critical role in the visual arts world, promoting and supporting emerging and established artists and cultivating the Australian art market.
Online database search for information on Australian education and training programs for the cultural sector. Contains over 1,500 training courses from over 240 organisations. from TAFE institutes, private providers, enterprises and industry associations with qualifications of many levels. It also includes annual workshops and short courses.
Comprehensive fine art search with access to historical artists, artworks and movements. Listing over 9000 artists, 2600 art sites, 140,000 links.
Art Dictionary of more than 3,600 terms used in visual arts for artists, collectors and educators. This art dictionary is for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies is the global network of arts councils and ministries of culture. Aims to benefit artists, arts organisations and communities worldwide. Their vision is a dynamic network, sharing knowledge and creating understanding to enrich a world of artistic and cultural diversity.
IP Australia administers Australia's IP rights system, specifically patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeder’s rights. Their core task is to administer statutes relating to IP.
Advancing the profile of visual artists in Western Australia. Artsource delivers quality, core services on behalf of individual artist members and the visual arts sector, in partnership with stakeholders. Membership and advocacy body for visual artists in WA. Inspires, expands and improves the profile and sustainability of artists and the sector.
This website has lost its searchability features. An archive does still exist.
A recognised leader in corporate partnership development and brokerage in the Arts, Community and Entertainment sectors in Australia. Specialises in working with rights holders in 3 areas: building capacity to attract and maintain corporate partners; helping find meaningful partners; and assisting in developing and servicing partners' needs.
A leading art portal. Human edited guide to art and artist information on the Web, designed to bring together those who love art with those who create it and to provide an affordable means for artists to promote their work. Also provides a comprehensive guide to art related sites on the Internet.
A directory for everything to do with arts and crafts in Australia including suppliers, galleries, markets, shows, classes and crafts people. Artist and crafter interviews, a craft forum, craft search and project/ howto videos, articles and gallery.
Bindarri aims to build and strengthen the community of Australian creatives who are working for positive change and to inspire others who are yet to begin. A website that includes a regular blog, links directory, events and features on inspirational Australian creatives.
Online art gallery specialized in selling original paintings signed by talented artists worldwide. All the paintings sold are original. They represent painters from different countries worldwide from USA, Europe, Australia or South America. Can be browsed by theme, medium, style, price or size.
NAVA is the peak body representing and advancing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts and craft sector. NAVA undertakes advocacy and lobbying, research, policy and project development, data collection and analysis. It also provides expert advice, resources, professional representation and development and a range of other services. Artrillium House highly recommends this organisation.
Australia Council for the Arts program of market development initiatives to showcase the best of Australia’s contemporary arts to the world.Promotes high-quality, 'export-ready’ Australian arts to key international decision makers and profiles a broad spectrum of the Australian arts – dance, literature, music, theatre, and visual arts and crafts – and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
Collects websites of arts, artists, art galleries, art supplies, art museums, art representatives, and more related to arts. Listings by art forms and artists by country.
Comprehensive directory and searchable database of art resources for artists, galleries, museums and businesses.
Promotes the work of students, amateur & professional artists and galleries through a network of sites offering promotional tools, information & resource services to the artists. Incl. free art directory listings, free webspace, free email accounts & online portfolio creation, fine art e-card site.
An art links directory resource for animation, architecture, comics, dance, literature, photography, television, antiques, bodyart, crafts, design, movies, radio and theatre.
theArtWolf.com is an online magazine aimed to offer an original, independent point of view about the art world, its news, events, protagonists, glories and miseries. All contents are free and displayed either in English and in Spanish, which represents hundreds of millions of potential visitors over the world.
Directory of metal art and craft artisans and studios. The directory allows the promotion of metal art and craft with the database of artist profiles and with the gallery displaying feature metal art pieces. The artisans and studios featured are blacksmiths, coppersmiths, tinsmiths, art foundries and metal sculpture artists.
Categorised and fully searchable web directory
Membership based Income & exhibition opportunities from all around the world. Listing juried exhibits, call for entries, art competitions, grants, jobs for artists festivals, financial aid, scholarships, residencies, commissions, portfolio reviews. Plus thousands of exhibition, support, news & publication resources for artists of all disciplines.
Listing of art & craft blogs, directories and more. A team of craft minded folk who wanted to make it easier for craft suppliers and teachers to reach a targeted audience. They are developing a directory of craft businesses who are able to provide products and services both here in Australia and internationally.
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Discover great online art resources and increase your exposure as a NZ Artist, Gallery or Organisation by listing with the Artlist Directory.
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For all you need to know about sponsorships, partnerships and donations to the arts, think AbaF.
Artists Alliance is a membership based organisation established in 1991 to represent and advance the professional interests of the visual artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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Artbank is the largest buyer of contemporary Australian art in the country. Promoting and making the collection available for rent and reinvesting its revenues back in to the collection. Artbank focuses its support on emerging artists. Over 10,000 artworks for rental, while actively supporting contemporary Australian artists.
ABC arts news, blog, reviews, events, newsletter, new work, TV and Radio and forums.
A vibrant global community of people with creative interests. A place to share the illustrations, a forum to seek feedback on the story you’re writing, a creative antidote to the day job, lunch break entertainment, a gallery to inspire, a marketplace to buy and sell unique works of art and a place to be inspired by like–minded people.
this site all evolves around the arts and crafts business. many links and interesting articles are offered.
This site all evolves around the arts and crafts business. many links and interesting articles are offered.
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The Art Resource Blog...Ideas, thoughts, theories, exploration, views. processes, people, galleries etc.
Fine Art Imaging specializes in museum quality Giclee art printing, serving the fine art trade throughout Australia. The studio replicates original artwork so accurately, the print will be virtually indistinguishable from the original - every detail scrutinized to ensure complete satisfaction and that to affordable price.
World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com is dedicated to connecting the people of the world to the world of art. The Artist/Premier Portfolio services are the largest and most successful program of it's kind representing 150,000 works by over 24,000 artists from around the world.
Artists Alliance is a membership based organisation established in 1991 to represent and advance the professional interests of the visual artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Art.Net
A marketplace and community of fine artists and dealers with offerings of over 4,000 artists from around the world. Community blog and information on over 12,000 artists and more.
CAS is specialised in helping artists and art organisations in Australia on grant acquittal audit fees at affordable prices. They also offer in certain circumstances free talks for art organisations on this issue.
312,056 artists- 2,332,737 art prices - 148,925 signatures - 1,200,277 photos of artwork.
Contains price information on all kinds of fine art oil paintings, etchings, engravings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and much more ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art.
The Artszz art directory site has great tips and article, and has hundreds of links to great art sites. Add your art site free to our directory.
A host of links to art and artists around the world. Search under a selection of interesting categories including galleries, museums and theatres.
Online Australian Business Website Directory and resources for Australian Based Shops, selling their goods directly online. Artist can be listed to sell their art for free. There is also a service for art businesses who do not have their own websites.
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Find listings of businesses & organisations that provide support, resources, education and inspiration for the visual artist.
australianartsales.com.au coordinates 3 international art prizes, the Mortimore Art Prize and the Inglis Equine Art Prize and the Macquarie Photography Prize. The organiser Mike Coward also coordinates the group known as The 30 Realists. Multi award winning painters, illustrators and sculptors who exhibit regularly each year.
