About OzArts
Welcome to OzArts
OzArts is the Australia Council for the Arts program of market development initiatives to showcase the best of Australia’s contemporary arts to the world. Its aim is to promote high-quality, 'export-ready’ contemporary Australian arts to key international decision makers.
Through the OzArts website and other promotional tools, OzArts profiles a broad spectrum of the Australian arts – dance, literature, music, theatre, and visual arts and crafts – and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, and artists whose work is performed for young people.
For our colleagues overseas, the OzArts website features Australian artists with high-quality, ready-to-export products. It also includes a calendar of tours, exhibitions, events and other activities by Australian artists on the road overseas. Together these features are a dynamic showcase of new artists and their works and a handy guide to where to see Australian artists and their work overseas.
For the Australian arts sector, OzArts helps raise the overall profile of Australian contemporary artists working in the international arena and ensures an ongoing visibility and presence. The website is a valuable source of information and contacts – from agents to managers, dealers to publishers and contacts for international festivals, promoters, arts events, book fairs and art fairs – who are key to developing business relationships in the international marketplace.
The OzArts website is updated continually, and new features are added on a regular basis to ensure it remains the definitive resource about the Australian arts scene.
Artists on OzArts
Australian artists continue to lead the way with distinctive, dynamic and captivating work. OzArts provides an essential snapshot into this exciting sector by showcasing and promoting many of Australia's leading export-ready artists and companies.
Given the enormous wealth of artistic talent and creative innovation within Australia, the Australia Council does not have the capacity at this stage to promote every individual Australian arts project, artist, exhibition, performance and tour on OzArts.
Priority on OzArts, therefore, is given to artists and companies profiled as part of the Australia Council's international market development activities such as recurrent performing arts markets and conferences, trade exhibitions, industry markets and visual arts biennials - for example, the Venice Biennale, the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM), the Australasian World Music Expo and the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The Australia Council is committed to showcasing Australia's best artists to the world and will work to broaden the eligibility for inclusion on OzArts in the next phase of the site's redevelopment and after considering available resources and priorities.
If you would like to learn more about the exciting world of OzArts, please review our FAQs section or contact: info@ozarts.com.au
