Creative industries
Overview
Queensland's vibrant creative sector embraces exceptional talent, innovative companies and world-class facilities.
Music composition and production
Queensland is home to a thriving contemporary music scene and Brisbane has built a reputation as one of the world's top cities for new music talent.
BIGSOUND, Queensland's annual music industry conference, provides international music industry decision-makers with a preview of exciting talent emerging in Queensland.
Trade and Investment Queensland is also assisting the State's musicians and artists with showcasing opportunities at international music industry events in the United States, the United Kingdom and a number of markets in Asia.
Trade and Investment Queensland has developed a contemporary music export strategy, titled QMEx, which covers the years 2008 to 2011. The strategy aims to expand on the success of Trade and Investment Queensland's previous contemporary music export initiatives. Find out more about this major project. (PDF, 728KB)
For a taste of the talent Queensland has to offer, check out the MySpace links: "Music Made in Queensland".
Visual arts, design and architecture
From international public art projects to international gallery exhibitions, Queensland's visual arts and design sectors bring a unique Queensland identity to export markets.
The Queensland Indigenous visual arts industry is vibrant with both young and mature artists creating work across all media. Their works are receiving recognition through acquisition into public and private collections and museums across the globe.
The Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art is the second largest art museum in Australia, and provides a world-class exhibition space.
Queensland is home to an energetic design community, including many successful and emerging designers with strengths in
- product and industrial design
- furniture design
- textiles and interior design
- fashion and jewellery design
- architecture, urban planning and landscape design
- advertising, graphic design and marketing.
Design Made in Queensland is making headlines around the world for its creativity and innovation. Sample Design Made in Queensland (PDF, 420KB).
Read more about the Queensland Design Strategy 2010 (PDF, 1.2MB).
Film, television and entertainment software
Queensland has a global reputation for film and television production built on its diversity of locations, leading-edge production crews, acclaimed visual effects companies and world-class production and post-production facilities.
The Queensland Government's Screen Queensland plays a key role in developing and supporting the film industry, attracting production to Queensland and celebrating an active screen culture across the State.
Writing, publishing and print media
Queensland boasts a number of well-established authors achieving global recognition in the young adult fiction and speculative fiction genres, as well as a burgeoning emerging writers' scene. Queensland writers are becoming increasingly known in international markets for their writing quality and for stories with universal themes and broad appeal.
Advertising, graphic design and marketing
Queensland's advertising, graphic design and marketing companies have won a number of national and international awards and provide state-of-the-art capabilities and creativity on the world stage.
Performing arts
Queensland's diverse performing arts sector includes companies that regularly tour the world presenting their innovative contemporary theatre, dance and music to international audiences.
Priority markets
The priority markets for Queensland's creative industries are the United States, the United Kingdom and other European countries, and a number of markets in Asia. The United States and United Kingdom are strong markets particularly in the music and writing sectors and Korea and Japan are proving to be good export markets for visual arts. There is interest from various European markets for music, visual arts, design and performing arts. The Middle East and India are emerging markets for music, visual arts, including public art and design.
The Queensland Government continues to build strategic relationships in all the export markets and provides targeted assistance for suitably qualified Queensland companies to capture and take advantage of export opportunities in the creative industries sector.
Useful links
- Artisan
- Arts Queensland
- Artworkers
- Austrade
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Australian Independent Records Labels Association
- Board of Architects of Queensland
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovaton
- Queensland Writers Centre
- Queensland Centre for Photography
- Q Music
- Screen Queensland
- Sounds Like Brisbane
- The Communications Council
More information
For more information about creative industries in Queensland contact Trade and Investment Queensland.
Last reviewed 30 June 2011
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