Visual arts are particularly popular among older age groups
In general, attendees of visual arts events are significantly older than attendees of other arts events (47 percent being aged 55 to 64 years). Painting, drawing and street art are the most popular...
View ArticleAttendance at art galleries is on the rise and there is an opportunity to...
In 2009-10 over 4.5 million Australians aged 15 years and over visited an art gallery (26 percent of the Australian population). This represented a significant increase (14 percent) in the...
View ArticleAudiences are less likely to use the internet before, during or after...
The very nature of visual arts attendance is more spontaneous than attendance for other art events and there is often no need to plan or research the event prior to attending (particularly since...
View ArticleVisual arts audiences express strong interest in online engagement at events
A small proportion of visual arts event attendees (such as visitors to a gallery or attendees at craft fairs) used the internet at events in 2010. However, there was strong interest to do so in future....
View ArticleThere are more Australians creating visual arts than any other type of art –...
Just over one in five Australians created visual arts and craft (22 percent) in 2009. These individuals were engaged creatively in visual art or craft work every five to six days. Of these, two fifths...
View ArticleOver 40 percent of children create visual arts and craft as a recreational...
The ABS 2012 study of children’s participation in culture and leisure activities found that 43 percent of children participated in recreational art and craft activities outside of school hours, while...
View ArticleVisual arts and craft is the one of the most popular cultural activities in...
Arts and craft’ were among the most common creative activities for Australians in 2010-11. Over 2 million people participated in some form of visual arts activity, and around 1,916,600 participated in...
View ArticleFact 1: Art exhibitions draw bigger crowds than the footy.
With around 11 million visitors a year, galleries are now more highly attended than Australia’s most popular spectator sport, Australian Rules Football, which had 10 million attendances in 2009-10.
View ArticleFact 2: 1,650,000 Australians attend Indigenous visual arts.
We found 9% of Australians over 15 years of age attended an Indigenous visual arts and craft event in 2009 – equivalent to over 1.66 million people. Looking at the arts overall, attitudes to Indigenous...
View ArticleFact 3: 2 million Australians do craft. 1.2 million use Twitter.
1.2 million kids do arts and crafts for fun, and almost 2 million adults make crafts like woodwork, jewellery and ceramics. Creating visual arts and crafts is also the most popular form of creative...
View ArticleFact 6: 1.2 million kids create art and craft outside school.
In 2012, over 43% of children aged 5 to 14 did arts and craft as a recreational activity outside of school hours. Similar numbers of kids visit museums and galleries each year (43%), making visual arts...
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