Community of Supporters
In 2025, West Space is seeking to raise $30,000 to support our program, and ensure our sustainable future.
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Why give to West Space?
Invests in artists
West Space empowers underrepresented artists. We commission ambitious new work, developed and presented with a high level of curatorial support.
Cultivate discussion
With an open, welcoming approach, West Space generates conversation and creates opportunities to gather around art and ideas.
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Join a community of people making an impact on our ability to support artists. You will be invited to special events, and proudly acknowledged here.
Solidarity with Palestine
West Space does not seek funding or partnerships with groups or individuals supporting the genocide in Gaza, or other sites of racial slavery, conflict, social or ecological devastation. Read on.
Supporters, 2024 → 2025
Inaugural Studio Supporters, $10,000
Melissa Loughnan & Simon Griffiths
Commission Supporters, $5,000+
Joan Spiller & Philip Yetton
Performance Supporters, $2,500+
Bala Starr
Rosemary Willink
Offsite Supporters, $1,000+
Ruth Trenerry
Anonymous
Window Supporters, $500+
Alicia Frankovich
Melissa Keys
Ellen Koshland
Shelley McSpedden
James Nguyen
Paris Lettau
Eugenia Lim
Leon van Schaik
Discussion Supporters, $250+
Akira Akira
Daniel Jumperz
Sim Luttin
Nicholas Mangan
Alia McBride
Kade McDonald
Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse
Sid Smith
Supporters, up to $249
Aida Azin, Kate Beynon, Kate Bonney, Jacqui Burnes, Aleks Chojnacki, Vivian Cooper, Laura Couttie, Celia Dottore, Rachel Earl, Phil Earl, Helen Grogan, Basim Magdy, Tahmina Maskinyar, Kym Maxwell, Kyle Mcintyre, Christine McKervey, Jackie Miller, Nithya Nagarajan, Melissa Nguyen, Jessica Olivieri, Emma O'Neill, Audrey Pfister, Lea Rose, Aziz Sohail, Truc Truong, Amelia Wallin, Anonymous x 9
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Join a group of people making an impact on art in Australia. We will proudly acknowledge you here, and invite you to special events.
Donate or speak with Joanna Kitto on director@westspace.org.au about how you can make an impact.
All donations over $2 are tax deductible. West Space is a not-for-profit organisation endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR), and registered with the Australian Charities & Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).
Funding and Partners
Core funding support
West Space is supported by Creative Victoria through their Creative Enterprises program, and Creative Australia through their Multi-Year Funding program.
Project support
West Space is supported by City of Yarra through their Annual Grants program.
2025 Program partners
Arts Access Victoria
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Hope St Radio
Liquid Architecture
Melbourne Art Fair
Slow Burn Books
Victorian College of the Arts
UTS Gallery, Sydney
Utp, Western Sydney
Yarra Youth Services
un Projects
Sponsors
Base Design, Sibling Architecture, McCorkell Constructions, Lūpa, Bodriggy Brewery, Brighter Later, Heaps Normal, Little Brunswick Wine
Network partners
West Space is an anchor tenant in multi-arts precinct Collingwood Yards — a place of cultural and artistic production, open to the public.
West Space shares an office with un Projects, an independent publisher of writing that emerges from art making.
West Space is a member of Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia, a national network of independent organisations advocating for the small-to-medium visual arts sector. Director Joanna Kitto is Co-Deputy Chair.
West Space is a member of All Conference, a national network of artist-led experimental arts organisations.
West Space is a member of A Climate for Art, a growing union of arts organisations responding to the climate crisis through tangible action.
