Arts and creative industries

This study by Professor Justin O’Connor was commissioned by the Australia Council as part of a long-running and productive relationship between the council and the ARC Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Our previous collaborations have looked at the contribution of creative activities to health care and, more recently, an analysis of census data on artists’ employment, What’s your other job?, as part of our Artist Careers research. The council is also a partner with QUT in two current Linkage research projects supported by the Australian Research Council.

Our impetus is to add constructively to the long-running discussion about the relationship between the arts and the relatively newly termed creative industries.