Feral Arts is one of Australia's leading community cultural development companies. We are innovators in the field of digital storytelling, community mapping and communications.

We specialise in partnerships in the Arts, Community, Education, Environment and Health sectors, creating new ways to communicate and collaborate through stories. We build world-leading community-focused digital storytelling software systems and explore the potential of emerging digital technologies in finding creative solutions to cultural and social challenges.

Storytelling in the Public Interest aims to maximise the benefits of digital storytelling for both storytellers and the broader community. It combines our work in three areas:
  • innovative digital storytelling projects with our partners and clients in the Arts, Community, Education, Environment and Health sectors
  • creation of PlaceStories a world-leading community focused digital storytelling software system
  • large-scale collaborative arts projects and campaigns aimed at activating and connecting people around shared goals and objectives.
PlaceStories is a map-based digital storytelling software system being developed by Feral Arts. The system supports a wide range of community-focused communications and storytelling projects in Australia & the U.S. Members can create and publish their own stories directly to the PlaceStories map. They can create their own PlaceStories projects or join one of the growing number of public storytelling communities.

Our Community sector work focuses on the storytelling, communication and collaboration needs of a wide range of community-focused agencies and organisations.

Westpac StoryBank - a customised platform to support storytelling and mapping of the community-focused activities of both the Westpac Foundation and Westpac Group.

Brisbane Histories - a growing digital storytelling system for the local historical groups and community museums across the greater Brisbane region.

Digital Landcare is a network for Landcarers to share their natural resource management (NRM) experiences through digital stories and other media.

The Arts Portfolio supports storytelling, communication and collaboration in the arts and cultural sector. Some examples include:

Pollinate - supporting the community arts and cultural development sector to connect, communicate, collaborate and share.

Creative Recovery Arts Corps - exploring the role of the arts in community disaster recovery.

Storytelling plays an important part in a wide range of health projects across the country.

Arts and Health Stories - a growing online community of artists and health professionals from across Australia.

Neonatales - an innovative online network supporting storytelling, communication and collaboration in the neonatal healthcare sector.

Annual Report:
2011 (pdf 1.3 MB)
2010 (pdf 1.2 MB)
2009 (pdf 1.1 MB)
2008 (pdf 1.2 MB)

Publications:
"Arts and the NBN" 1999 (pdf 115 kB)
"Community, Culture and Globalisation" 2001 (pdf 606 kB)
Symposium - "They Shoot Ferals Don't They?" 1999 (pdf 954 kB)

Australia Council
Feral Arts has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Arts Queensland
Feral Arts acknowledges the assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Partners & Clients...
Arts and Healthy Foundation
Beyond Empathy
Center for Rural Strategies (USA)
Creative Resilience Alliance
DADAA WA
Key Producer Network
Landcare NSW
Positive Solutions
Regional Arts Australia
Westpac Foundation
Westpac Group