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Horizon Call to Artists 2025 and Beyond Application Form

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Horizon Festival: Call to Artists & Creatives 

Horizon Festival is seeking expressions of interest (EOIs) from artists and creative practitioners — visual artists, designers (from graphic to fabric), performers, musicians, and all other disciplines — to work with the festival in the future. Get yours in!

Our Sunshine Coast arts sector is growing and evolving. As the regions annual arts festival we want to work with artists in new ways. This call-out invites ambitious, practicing artists that live, work or have a connection to the Sunshine Coast to reach out to us.   

No theme, no guidelines, no agenda — just you and your work.   

Horizon Festival’s commitment is to embed Sunshine Coast artists throughout our festival program — from start to finish. This is your opportunity to connect with us.  

Questions? :: contact a real person here: horizon@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. 

Otherwise, we will be in touch shortly.  

What is Horizon Festival looking for? 

We are looking for a diverse range of artists and creative practitioners to work with Horizon in future festivals. 

Horizon Festival is a curated platform to present and develop powerful arts experiences that showcase our unique stories, share our authentic lifestyle and celebrate our beautiful landscape. To enrich and transform lives through the arts, as we grow to be the Sunshine Coast’s premier cultural event with national significance. 

If you have anything specific to pitch directly to the Horizon team please attach any relevant specific documents at the end of this application.  

Artists and creative practitioners will be invited to work with us based on the following considerations: 

  • Artistic merit | Quality of the practice or work  
  • Level of experience and viability
  • Connection and relevance to the region and Horizons audiences 
  • Alignment with festival vision, dates and resources

Opportunities might include; outdoor/Indoor presentations, unusual Spaces, exhibition and performance, collaborative projects. 

Only one submission is required per artist, creative practitioner or collective. If you have a specific project, work or show to pitch directly to the Horizon team please attach relevant documents at the end of this application. 

Applicant Details

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Artist practice

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Must be no more than 200 words. 
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Must be no more than 300 words. 
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Supporting Materials

Please submit the following support material with your submission. The panel will review this support material to help them gain a better sense of your practice. 

IMPORTANT: We do not accept support material submitted via post. If you have special circumstances that prevent you from submitting your supporting documents electronically, please contact the team on artscoast@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au.  

Please note that support material can include a total of: 

  • Artist CV (Required) 
  • Artist Statement or Bio (Required) 
  • Link to 5 minute of video/audio works 
  • Collated images up to 5 pages 
  • Collated written document or specific pitch documents  

If you cannot supply support material via URLs, you may upload a single PDF containing your collated support material. 

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            Must be a URL. 
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            Applicant Support

            For further information or assistance, please contact via email horizon@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au and quote your application number.

            For technical assistance completing this form please contact the Horizon Team on 5475 7272 during business hours Monday to Friday.

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            Council will use any personal information provided for the purpose of processing your application and for remaining in contact with you. Council is authorised to collect this information in accordance with the Local Government Act 2009 and other local government Acts. Your personal information is only accessed by persons authorised to do so.

            Please note the information provided on your application and in any related documentation/discussions may be provided to members of the assessment panel in order to assist us in considering your expression of interest.

            Your personal information is dealt with in accordance with council’s Privacy Policy.

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