Where do the creative industries actually get their money?

The latest A New Approach (ANA) report aims to dispel the myth that Australian creative industries mainly rely on government assistance.

‘Cultural and creative industries earned 87% of their income – the largest proportion – from sales and services,’ reveals the latest findings in A New Approach’s (ANA) report ‘To Scale: Mapping Financial Inflows in Australian Arts, Culture and Creativity‘.

ANA CEO Kate Fielding says: ‘The lion’s share of income in cultural and creative industries is from sales and services, which includes everything from art and cultural event ticket sales and royalties from intellectual property, through to cultural exports and computer software consulting fees.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_