Regional Arts WA

09/09/2026

Creative Workplaces and Support Act are offering free sessions covering the mental health and wellbeing in the creative industries. Feeling burnt out? Or just wondering how to balance a high work load with limited resources? These sessions might just be what you need.

Heading to Perth? They are offering two workshops in the metro area. Or register now for an online session to join in anywhere across Western Australia.

If you're more focused on admin and your financial wellbeing, just a reminder that Creative Workplaces also offer a Superannuation workshop that will have you understanding the new complexities in no time.

Read more: https://regionalartswa.org.au/mental-health-and-wellbeing-sessions-creative-workplaces-and-support-act/

08/09/2026

Regional Arts WA will be joining Aboriginal art centres and arts workers from across the state for Our Business on Miriwoong Country in Kununurra. Our Business is Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA)'s annual forum, presented in partnership this year with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts.

Our Business will bring people together to share knowledge, develop skills and strengthen connections. Across four days, the program will combine professional development, peer-to-peer learning, practical workshops and presentations on a range of topics including people management; workforce development; succession planning; Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property; and Stories, Art, Money (SAM); plus digital storytelling; photography; cultural tourism; exhibition planning; public art; product development and customer service.

Those attending will also hear from other key service providers and funding bodies, including Indigenous Art Code, Copyright Agency, Desart (SAM), Creative Workplaces, Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport, Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS), as well as from RAWA's First Nations Officer, Janine Oxenham, and Investment Coordinator, Carla Steele. You will also have the opportunity to ask them questions or meet with them one-on-one.

Registration is free for First Nations delegates, and many sessions will interest local independent artists and arts workers.

The Forum includes an Aboriginal Art Centre Showcase from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm on Wednesday 23rd September at the Kimberley Grande Resort. AACHWA invite the whole community to this event featuring panel discussions, live music and a language activity.

More details: https://regionalartswa.org.au/rawa-heads-to-kununurra-for-aachwas-our-business-2026/

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Featured image: Courtesy of AACHWA. Full credits at link above.

07/09/2026

07/09/2026

🌿 Want to see your art used at SWAMS? Here is your chance! 🎨

We are inviting Noongar artists from across our service region, including Bunbury, Busselton, Mandurah, Narrogin, Katanning, Collie and Manjimup, to submit an Expression of Interest for an exciting artwork commission.

Your artwork could become part of our new uniforms, community branding, promotional materials and merchandise, helping tell the story of our communities, Country and culture.

🔗 Follow the link to apply:
https://www.swams.com.au/noongar-artwork-graphic-design.../

Applications close at 5.00pm on Monday 21 September 2026.

07/09/2026

📌 September is a massive month for grants, funding, and more! Get ahead of the curve and check out the 80+ upcoming opportunities and events we've found for you. 🔗 https://regionalartswa.org.au/whats-on-and-beyond-september-2026/

📸 Lighting the Sound (2026) public illumination exhibition in Albany. Photo by Nic Duncan.

07/09/2026

A unique opportunity to participate in with Fremantle Biennale:

"The Fremantle Biennale is calling for Expressions of interest from artists and architects to create a series of sky-led observatories across Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region.

Following extensive consultation with communities across the region we are seeking ambitious ideas from collaborations between artists and architects to imagine singular observatories and built forms for five sites across the Wheatbelt.

The proposed observatories will explore both nocturnal and diurnal experiences, creating places to gather, shelter, look, listen and connect with the sky and horizon. Combining permanent and temporary works, the observatories will form a constellation and landmark dark sky trail that will be activated by the Biennale and each community through public programs, seasonal gatherings, storytelling, performances and other cultural experiences.

EOIs open: 4 September 2026

EOIs close: 2 October 2026"

Download EOI (PDF):https://nightrise.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Night-Rise-Wheatbelt-Observatories-EOI.pdf

WHEATBELT OBSERVATORIES

The first NIGHT RISE opportunity is now open.

Following extensive consultation across 10+ communities in the Wheatbelt, NIGHT RISE proposes a constellation of artist and architect-designed sky observatories distributed across multiple locations.

Combining permanent and temporary works, these sites are imagined as a dark sky trail, activated by the Fremantle Biennale in collaboration with each community through public programs and events over a one or two-year period.

We are seeking Expressions of Interest from contemporary artists, architects and architectural practices to imagine singular observatories — nocturnal and diurnal — for selected sites across the Wheatbelt.

Artistic and architectural collaborations are encouraged.

EOIs open 4 September 2026
EOIs close 2 October 2026

Full EOI and submission details → nightrise.com.au
Link in bio.

A Fremantle Biennale initiative.

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04/09/2026

Our Project Officer, Natalie de Rozario, made our hearts sing this morning with her summary of last night's session with our Social Fabric Equity Project in Kalgoorlie:

"We had a very special focus group last night with six participants; it is amazing to see the impacts and ripple effects the project is having in the community."

Social Fabric is funded by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund Regional Arts Australia, the Minderoo Foundation, Lotterywest, and Healthway to promote positive health outcomes for our communities.

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Background photo by Rachel Claire
All other photos supplied by Natalie de Rozario

03/09/2026

03/09/2026

💙 FREE Cyanotype Workshop (Kalgoorlie)
🔗 Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/science-meets-arts-workshop-by-dr-kirsten-hudson-social-fabric-project

In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore cyanotype, a camera-free photographic process that uses UV light to produce deep blue-and-white images. Working with plants, found objects and transparent materials, participants will compose directly on light-sensitive paper, expose their arrangements to UV light, then wash the paper and watch each image emerge. Along the way, we will experiment with light, shadow, exposure time, transparency and contact.

Everyone will leave with their own original cyanotype prints. No previous art, photography or science experience is needed.

Led by Associate Professor, Kirsten Hudson, artist, researcher, educator and co-lead of Curtin University's Sciene Meets Art initiative.

Presented by Regional Arts WA as part of Social Fabric, the workshop extends the public program of Light as Voice, a Science Meets Art residency hosted by Palya Walkaly-Walkalypa Gallery at Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison, with support from Curtin Kalgoorlie and funding from the WA Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport.