News & Media

Professor Megan Davis, Voice architect, Uluru Dialogues Co-Chair and UNSW Scientia Professor has been named a companion of the Order of Australia in the 2025 Australia Day honours. Click to read more via Guardian Australia.

Our January Newsletter has arrived, with news from Foundation and updates from some of our Grants. Please click here to read and to subscribe to our mailing list.

The Granville School Partnership Program (SPP) with KidsXpress has been selected as the recipient of the Balnaves Foundation Staff Grant. This is an initiative undertaken every few years by the Foundation, where the Foundation team participates actively in the granting process.

Yuwaalaraay actor, screenwriter, and playwright Hannah Belanszky has been announced as the latest Balnaves Foundation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow. Hannah will receive $45,000 over an 18-month period to create a new work as a resident artist at Belvoir in 2025/26.

Australian Associated Press (AAP) and The Balnaves Foundation are proud to announce a new partnership supporting specialised arts journalism at the nation’s only independent newswire service.

The Balnaves Foundation is proud to be supporting ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s prison tour of Big Name, No Blankets which is currently travelling throughout Victoria and the Northern Territory. Check out this article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the prison tour, and the impact it is already having on audiences in the prison system.

Thomas J Price, one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists renowned for his large-scale sculptural works, has been announced as the recipient of the inaugural Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission

We are delighted to share with you The Balnaves Foundation Annual Report for FY2024 celebrating the hard work and accomplishments achieved by our grantees this financial year.

The Balnaves Foundation is pleased to announce a new grant supporting Gadigal artist Konstantina (Kate Constantine), with a project entitled Gadigal: Yilabara Wala (Gadigal: Now and Then).

Our June Newsletter has arrived, with news from Foundation and updates from some of our Grants.

We are delighted to announce a new landmark sculpture commission in tribute to our Founder, Neil Balnaves AO, in partnerhsip with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Our March Newsletter has arrived, with news from Foundation and updates from some of our Grants. Please click here to read and to subscribe to our mailing list.  

We are delighted to share with you The Balnaves Foundation Annual Report for 2023 celebrating the hard work and accomplishments achieved by our grantees this financial year.

Australia has lost a beloved member of the arts community with the sad passing of Marcus (Marc) Besen AC.

The Balnaves Foundation has issued a statement on the result of the Voice to Parliament referendum.

The Foundation is pleased to announce the Neil Balnaves AO Anniversary Prize to honour the 25th exhibition of Sculpture by the Sea Bondi.

Professor Megan Davis, Co-Chair of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law and Pro Vice Chancellor Society at UNSW, has been named on the TIME100 Next List.

Let your Voice be Heard, and donate now to spread the message of Yes!

In 2023, Australians will have a historic opportunity to accept the invitation from First Nations people in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, to walk with them towards Voice, Treaty and Truth.

Our July Newsletter has arrived, with news from Foundation and updates from some of our Grants.

The Balnaves Foundation has been featured alongside other philanthropic organisations as part of a pledge from members of Philanthropy Australia who support the ‘Yes’ campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum.

Our April Newsletter has arrived, with news from Foundation and updates from some of our Grants.

We are delighted to share with you The Balnaves Foundation Annual Report FY 2022 celebrating the hard work and accomplishments achieved by our grantees from July 2021 to June 2022.

Our October Newsletter has arrived, with news from Foundation and updates from some of our Grants.

The Balnaves Foundation is thrilled that the inaugural scholarship recipient for First Nations Programs at NIDA has commenced their studies.

The Australian Museum has been announced as the overall National Winner of the 2022 Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNAs)!

The Balnaves Foundation was honoured to see the Balnaves Family recognised on the inaugural The List: Arts & Culture 2022

Our May Newsletter has arrived, sharing news from a handful of our Grantees and from The Balnaves Foundation.

The highly anticipated film, The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson arrives in cinemas on May 5, and just in time for Mother’s Day!

We are pleased to share with you The Balnaves Foundation Annual Report FY2021 celebrating the achievements and hard work accomplished from July 2020 to June 2021.

Renata Gortan talks to Neil and Hamish Balnaves about the importance of philanthropy and spending the substantial family inheritance wisely.

She planted the seed for SandSong shortly before her untimely death in 2019. Now the acclaimed company is bringing the story of her country to life.