The Realise Your Dream Awards are designed to accommodate various types of creative practice. As such, the application form asks applicants to address a number of general selection criteria.

We are looking for applications that address our criteria in unique and innovative ways. However, it’s also important to get your message across clearly and concisely. It’s important that you communicate your achievements in your chosen field and your plans for success.

Applications should:

• Clearly articulate the Applicant’s career goals
• Provide examples of relevant work experience undertaken in the chosen field
• Give us an indication of their talent, success and achievements to date
• Address how and why the UK in particular will play an important role in shaping the career of the Applicant
• Clearly outline the nature of the programme the Applicant would like to undertake should they be offered a 2009 Realise Your Dream award

In addition, where relevant, applicants should demonstrate:

• Innovation in their creative field or area of work
• Initiative, leadership skills and community engagement
• Industry awareness
• Determination to succeed in their creative field
• Professional experience
• An ability to communicate talent and strengths
• Potential to strengthen relationships between Australia and the UK creative industries

For more inspiration visit Past Winners, where you can read profiles and background on previous winners and what they planned to achieve via Realise Your Dream.

Support Materials
We encourage you to be creative with your support material.
Support material could include:

• Applicant CV or artist biography including qualifications, industry experience, awards and other achievements
• Artist portfolio
• List of references
• Letters of support
• Specifically created poster or other image

Web based support materials could include:

• Link to Show-reel
• EPK – electronic press kit
• Myspace page
• Flickr Site
• Blog
• Link to Video presentation
• Portfolio
• E-book
• Links to your company, event or products

Your technical skills are not being assessed in presenting your application (unless they are an integral part of your chosen field), but presentation and style are important.