We’re thrilled to share the 2025 recipient for the SAFE Grant.
Kay Kerr is a Queensland-based author whose work explores disability, identity, and lived experience. Kay received a 2025 SAFE Grant in support of her novel, Thriving, Actually.
A SAFE Grant is a one-off funding opportunity for emerging and professional artists with disability living in Queensland. It is designed to fund the costs (up to $1,000) of attending conferences, training courses, events or mentoring to help enhance an artist’s professional career.
The grant supported Key with fees to an accessible writing retreat in Witta, QLD — where she could spend dedicated time and space at a pivotal stage in the project’s development.
“The allocated time and space to work on this project at such a pivotal point in my artistic career has been invaluable. My work has improved immensely and I am energised to be sending it off to its next stage.”
Thriving, Actually is now in its final stages, with submission to Kay’s literary agent and publisher planned for early 2026.
Jeff Parker is an Ipswich-based artist and photographer whose work reflects people, purpose and perception. Jeff received a 2026 SAFE Grant in support of Australia From Our Wandering, a pop-up exhibition of paintings and digitally printed photographic works on canvas exploring Australian scenes through emotion, memory and resilience.
Megan is a Queensland-based artist and writer working across drawing, painting, photography and prose. Megan received a 2026 SAFE Grant in support of “After the Labelling / Before the Naming”, a two-sided flip book bringing together twenty-seven years of new and archival work.
Kay Kerr, a Queensland based author who received the 2025 SAFE Grant in support of her novel, ‘Thriving, Actually’.
SAFE Grant Recipient: Camilla Ker project, “Housing Crisis Quilts” is a powerful artistic initiative that highlights the Australian housing crisis through the medium of quilt-making.
Jesse Jones, 2024 SAFE Grant recipient, presented Self & Survival, his debut solo exhibition.
SAFE Grant Recipient: Camilla Ker project, “Housing Crisis Quilts” is a powerful artistic initiative that highlights the Australian housing crisis through the medium of quilt-making.
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