Creative Business Incubator
Creative Business Incubator is an intensive program designed to turn creative ideas into sustainable businesses. Suitable for a wide range of ideas and art forms, the program is tailored to help you grow your business idea or creative practice, gain visibility, understand your value and context, identify new markets, build an entrepreneurial mindset and position yourself as a creative leader.
With the support of a lead facilitator and a team of expert guest presenters, the program focusses on a specific aspect of creative business building towards a public showcase where participants pitch a business idea or creative practice to industry, government and business networks. The program develops self-understanding, entrepreneurial skills and a full business plan through targeted workshops, mentorship and community engagement and enables participants to be adaptive, resilient and ready to engage with a dynamic market.
“When I came into The Refinery, I was still working as a hospital nurse and shooting 10 weddings a year. The program helped me turn my creative practice into a sustainable career. I have 50 weddings booked this year, I am able to support myself and my family and I live the lifestyle I want.”
Cooper Brady
Cooper Brady Photography
Turn your creative practice or business
idea into a
sustainable career.
Check out our 2024 cohort at Showcase
The Refinery’s Creative Business Incubator program has successfully supported 95 independent creative practitioners and businesses to date.
“From sewing on the kitchen table to where I am now, The Refinery really helped me challenge my idea of what a creative business can be.”
Shaye Harsidy
Textile artist
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