Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the 2026 Arts Fund have now closed.
Thank you to everyone who submitted an EOI.
Keep your eye out for the successful 2026 Arts Fund recipients and information on opening dates for future funding rounds.
CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND CREATIVES
Got an amazing project to share?
We're looking for artists of all kinds to showcase works at HOTA and Experience Gold Coast Festivals.
• Developing new work?
• Bringing talent home?
• A show ready to hit the stage?
We're here for it!
The EGC Arts Fund is an opportunity to put local creativity centre stage. Think bold, playful out of the box ideas. Partner with other local artists, national artists or even international artists to bring imaginative ideas to life.
Amount
Up to $200,000 funding is available per project
Funding available across 3 Tiers:
- Tier 1: up to $25k
- Tier 2: $25k–$100k
- Tier 3: $100k–$200k
Where will your work be showcased?
- Blues on Broadbeach
- Cooly Rocks On
- BLEACH* Festival
- Groundwater Country Music Festival
- Kids Take Over Festival
- HOTA - Gallery, Theatre, Outdoor Stage
The fund focuses on three Grant Categories with funding outcomes primarily for:
- Gold Coast Stories - Development of new content by Gold Coast artists, companies, and community for presentation across EGC platforms, festivals, events, and stages; Create culturally significant work that’s uniquely Gold Coast.
- Gold Coast Creates - Attracting high calibre artists with strong connection to the Gold Coast back to the City to make work. Develop big, bold work for EGC stages; partnerships encouraged; and
- Gold Coast Presents - Presentation of readymade high quality local creative content.
The EGC Arts Fund is made possible thanks to the support of the City of Gold Coast.
Who can apply?
- Be individuals or collectives of whom the majority are current Gold Coast residents. Non-residents must clearly demonstrate a lasting connection to and/or benefit to the Gold Coast community arts and culture sector.
- Be practicing artists or arts professionals
- Emerging professional artists
- Incorporated arts and cultural organisation
- Australian citizen/permanent resident
- Registered with an ABN
CONTACT US
If you have any questions please contact us:
Email – egcartsfund@experiencegoldcoast.com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Experience Gold Coast acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are situated, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh Language Region.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connections to the lands, waters and their extended communities throughout Southeast Queensland.