This research report addresses the first phase of the National Craft Initiative project with the overall aim being to provide the foundations for action in building a sustainable, strong, and highly valued crafts industry in Australia.

We want Scotland to be a place where the arts, screen and creative industries are valued and recognised, where artists and creative people are flourishing and thriving, and where everyone, everywhere, is interested and curious about creativity. Scotland’s diversity and distinctiveness, reflected in our indigenous languages, Gaelic and Scots, and strengthened by an increasing range...

This report identified five areas where Creative New Zealand can make a measurable difference to sustaining the health and vitality of Pacific arts over the next five years.

Through this paper I propose that the ‘Muse’ is an important part of this ‘wicked’ conversation and can infuse the process with culturally rich meaning that enables communities to construct more sustainable cultures of living. Creative practices – from art, design, craft, writing, music and other forms of cultural production – can play an important...

The creative economy could fuel Australia's next boom By Stuart Cunningham , Queensland University of Technology Australia is richly blessed with an abundance of resources which, along with robust legal, business and political infrastructure, has allowed it to pull through tough times on several occasions. As we face a slowing of the current boom in...