Kevin Parker, Courtney Barnett, Daniel Johns up for Fine Arts and Artisan ARIAs

Tame Impala linchpin Kevin Parker, beloved global export Courtney Barnett, Daniel Johns, and Spirit Of The Anzacs producer Garth Porter are nominated in the Fine Arts and Artisan categories for this year’s ARIA Awards.

The Awards cover categories including; Best Classical Album, Best Jazz Album, Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, Best World Music Album along with Producer Of The Year, Engineer Of the Year and Best Cover Art.

Parker is up for Engineer of the Year and Producer Of The Year for Tame Impala LP Currents. Barnett is up for Best Cover Art for Sometimes I Sit And Think… She’s up against Daniel Johns, Aref and Peter Salmon-Lomas for Johns’ LP cover for Talk, Bjenny Montero for Pond’s Man It Feels Like Space Again, Timothy Lovett for Flight Facilities’ Down To Earth and Nathan Johnson for Gang of Youths’ The Positions.

Among the nominees for Best World Music Album sits ARIA winner Gurrumul (The Gospel Album) and Christine Anu (Island Christmas), while King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Quarters! is up for Best Jazz Album.

Continuing ARIA’s recent tradition of commissioning a unique commemorative artwork to celebrate the Awards, this year’s creator is 2015 Archibald Prize finalist, Koori visual artist, Blak Douglas.

Douglas said this year’s design is based around “The unsung, the undiscovered, the forgotten and the excluded.”

“Only a very small percentage of talented musicians have their voices heard. Commodification... the make and break of the broadcasted voice,” Douglas said in a statement. “The visual metaphor in my design is the Thylacine. It's vocal frustration goes unheard within then treacherous landscape spiked with awards. A virtual minefield of opportunity. The road sign indicates the journey ahead. The rewards will come so long as there's enough fuel in the tank.”

Douglas follows commemorative artwork creators Ken Done (A.M.) last year and ARIA Hall Of Fame recipient, Reg Mombassa in 2013.

FINE ARTS AWARDS | NOMINATED ARTISTS

Best Classical Album

Amy Dickson - Island Songs (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Brandenburg Celebrates (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Grigoryan Brothers - This Time (Which Way Music)

Sally Whitwell - I Was Flying (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Tamara-Anna Cislowska - Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Best Jazz Album

Allan Browne Quintet - Ithaca Bound (Jazzhead / MGM Distribution)

Barney McAll - Mooroolbark (ABC Jazz / Universal Music Australia)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Quarters! (Flightless / Remote Control)

Paul Grabowsky - Solo (ABC Jazz / Universal Music Australia)

Sarah McKenzie - We Could Be Lovers (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Album

Ed Kuepper - Last Cab To Darwin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Nigel Westlake - Paper Planes - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Opera Australia - Bliss (Brett Dean / Amanda Holden / Peter Carey) (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Various Artists - Beat The Drum - Celebrating 40 Years of triple j (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Various Artists - The Water Diviner - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Universal Music Australia)

Best World Music Album

Baby et Lulu - Album Deux (Independent / MGM)

Christine Anu - Island Christmas (Social Family Records / Universal Music Australia / The Orchard)

Genevieve Lacey / James Crabb - Heard This and Thought of You (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Joseph Tawadros - Truth Seekers, Lovers and Warriors (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Gurrumul  - The Gospel Album (Skinnyfish Music / MGM)

ARTISAN AWARDS | NOMINATED ARTISTS

Engineer of the Year

Virginia Read for Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Brandenburg Celebrates (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)

Adrian Breakspear and Peter Holz for Gang of Youths - Radioface (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)

Mitch Kenny for Hermitude  - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)

Kevin Parker for Tame Impala  - Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia)

Nick Didia for The Waifs - Beautiful You  (Jarrah Records / MGM)

Producer Of The Year

Damn Moroda for Daniel Johns - Talk (Eleven / EMI)

Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart for Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)

Garth Porter for Lee Kernaghan - Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)

Kevin Parker for Tame Impala - Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia)

Nick Didia for The Waifs - Beautiful You (Jarrah Records / MGM)

Best Cover Art

Courtney Barnett for Courtney Barnett  - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control)

Daniel Johns, Aref and Peter Salmon-Lomas for Daniel Johns - Talk (Eleven / EMI)

Timothy Lovett for Flight Facilities - Down To Earth (Future Classic)

Bjenny Montero for Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again (EMI)

Nathan Johnson for Gang of Youths - The Positions (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)