Australia Council Awards 2015

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Artistic excellence, diversity and exceptional leadership are the consistent themes across the distinguished recipients of the 2015 Australia Council Awards.

Bringing the individual art form awards together for the first time, the 2015 Australia Council Awards ceremony payed tribute to the remarkable contributions made by 10 Australians to our arts and cultural landscape. Presented in Sydney on Thursday 19 March, these prestigious national awards combined long-standing lifetime and significant achievement awards in music, literature, community partnerships and visual arts, with new awards in theatre, dance, and emerging and experimental arts.

Australia Council Chief Executive Officer Tony Grybowski said the awards were the highest accolade the Council could bestow, and that the 2015 recipients had a depth and richness to the contributions made in their respective art forms, which embodied the kind of artistic and cultural ambition the Council is committed to supporting.

The 2015 Australia Council Award recipients are:

Thomas Keneally (NSW) – Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Archie Roach (Vic) – Australia Council Don Banks Music Award
Judy Watson (Qld) – Australia Council Visual Arts Award (Artist)
Will Stubbs (NT) – Australia Council Visual Arts Award (Advocate)
Stelarc (WA) – Australia Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in Emerging & Experimental Arts
Garry Stewart (SA) – Australia Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance
Bruce Gladwin (Vic) – Australia Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre
Tony Doyle (SA) – Ros Bower Award (Community Arts and Cultural Development)
Alyson Evans (NSW) – Kirk Robson Award (Community Arts and Cultural Development)
Alysha Herrmann (SA) – Kirk Robson Award (Community Arts and Cultural Development)