Funding round 25
Funding Recipients—December 2005
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
National Gallery of Australia
Stage Fright: The Art of Theatre
Stage Fright: The Art of Theatre features costume and set designs by Australian artists from the National Gallery of Australia's Theatre Arts Collection and follows the evolution of Australian costume and set design from the 1940s to the early 1980s. The images are drawn from mythology, fairy tales and fantasy characters intended for the ballet, opera and stage and include works on paper, film footage of the Australian Ballet's Sleeping Beauty, interactive children's panels and masks by the Australian artist Mirka Mora. A partnership with the Australian Theatre for Young People has been developed to explore educational opportunities for young audiences.
The exhibition tours to NSW, VIC, TAS and SA.
Touring Funding: $93 000
NEW SOUTH WALES
Artbank
Artbank: Celebrating 25 Years of Contemporary Australian Art
Artbank: Celebrating 25 Years of Contemporary Australian Art is a celebration of Artbank's collection of contemporary art and craft from Australia's emerging and established Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. The exhibition will include at least one key artwork representing each year of Artbank's operation. Examples of contemporary abstraction, landscapes, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, glass, photography and sculpture will be included in the exhibition.
The exhibition tours to NSW, QLD, TAS, WA and VIC.
Touring Funding: $96 400
Arts Northern Rivers Inc
ConVerge: Northern Rivers Touring Ceramic Exhibition
ConVerge: Northern Rivers Touring Ceramic Exhibition is a touring exhibition showcasing the work of twenty ceramic artists, both emerging and established, from the Northern Rivers Region of NSW. The exhibition highlights the diverse cultural influences of contemporary ceramic practice in Australia. ConVerge will be launched in Brisbane at Verge, the 2006 National Ceramic Conference.
The exhibition tours to QLD and NSW.
Touring Funding: $42 000
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Janet Dawson: Survey Exhibition
Curated by Christine France, Janet Dawson: Survey Exhibition, focuses on Dawson's career spanning 45 years from the 1960s as a pioneer of the international style of colourfield painting to her contemporary figurative works. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings and prints and aims to reflect the social and political changes which have shaped her art of the last 40 years.
The exhibition tours to ACT, QLD, NSW, TAS and VIC.
Touring Funding: $95 000
Orange Regional Gallery
Cuisine & Country: A Culinary Venture in Australian Art
Cuisine & Country: A Culinary Venture in Australian Art focuses on the pivotal role food has played in Australian culture and will include paintings, graphics, photographs, sculpture and installation drawn from both major public and private collections. Themes included range from the colonial bush picnic; the shearer's kitchen through to modernist and contemporary images of the diverse range of food in Australia that has resulted from the dual catalyst of immigration and travel. The exhibition will also integrate Indigenous works which explore the engagement with country as a food resource.
Development Funding: $36 500
QUEENSLAND
Museum of Brisbane
Echoes of Home: Memory of Mobility in Recent Austral-Asian Art
Echoes of Home: Memory of Mobility in Recent Austral-Asian Art focuses on 14 Australian artists from 10 different Asian backgrounds who use elements of craft, or draw from craft traditions in their artistic practice. The exhibition explores each artist’s unique influences and experiences and highlights the skills, traditions and stories from homelands that each of the artists brings to their contemporary practice, the effect of their Australian lives and other cultural stimuli.
The exhibition tours to QLD, VIC, WA and NSW.
Touring Funding: $91 600
Queensland University of Technology
Marks and Motifs: Prints from the PCA Collection
Curated by Stephen Rainbird, Marks and Motifs: Prints from the PCA Collection explores new directions in technical and thematic aspects of contemporary Australian printmaking through works drawn from the archival collection of the Print Council of Australia in Melbourne established in 1986. The exhibition celebrates print production in Australia from 1967 to 2005 and comprises prints in a range of media by 48 contemporary Australian artists.
The exhibition tours to QLD, VIC and NSW.
Touring Funding: $26 080
Workshop Rail Museum
Great Railway Journeys of Australia
Great Railway Journeys of Australia (working title) has a social history focus and will explore the development, from a historical and contemporary perspective, of Australia's rail network. Train travel has played an important role in Australia cultural life over the past 150 years and one of the central storylines will include the use of trains for leisure passenger travel. The exhibition will draw on the Workshop Rail Museum's comprehensive object, archive and photographic collections as well as using loaned material from organisations such as Queensland Railway, Hema Maps, the National Railway Museum and Great Southern Railway Limited in South Australia.
Development Funding: $30 000
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Flinders University Art Museum
Dynasties of the Desert: Utopia Artists Through the Art Collections of Rodney Gooch
This exhibition, a collaborative project between Flinders University Art Museum and the Riddoch Gallery (Mt Gambier), will explore the art of the Eastern Anmatyerr people from Utopia through the collections of Rodney Gooch which are held in both institutions. The exhibition will comprise paintings, prints, textile and sculptural works by Utopia artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Kathleen Petyarre, Ada Bird Petyarre, Robert Cole, Bessie Liddle, Minnie Pwerle and Lindsay Bird. Dynasties of the Desert will also examine the stylistic development of these artists and the family relationships that have contributed to Utopia's art-making practice.
Development Funding: $51 000
South Australian Maritime Museum
Wrecked! Tragedy and the Southern Seas
Wrecked! Tragedy and the Southern Seas
is a social history exhibition exploring shipping disasters, their place in the popular imagination and migration history. The exhibition examines the dramatic stories of shipwrecks on the southern Australian coast through eight key themes including: 17th and 18th century Dutch shipwrecks; perceptions of death and tragedy in the 19th century; shipwrecks and regional communities; the celebration of heroes and rescuers; maritime archaeology and shipwrecks today. The exhibition includes 120 objects that have been recovered from these wrecks.
The exhibition tours to SA, VIC, ACT and NSW.
Touring Funding: $108 500
VICTORIA
Experimenta Media Arts Inc.
Experimenta Vanishing Point
Experimenta Vanishing Point is a new media exhibition that will embrace the concept of illusion through interactive media installations, screen-based work, haptic technology and sound installations. The artworks in the exhibition are produced by Australian and International artists and illustrate sensory, optic and aural illusions as well as taking the audience into spaces that transform the familiar reality of our everyday environment and create enchanted worlds.
The exhibition tours to TAS, NT, NSW, WA and QLD.
Touring Funding: $98 300
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
International Art Space, Kellerberrin
Habitats
Habitats (working title) is a project focussing on areas where natural and human living environments overlap, clash and intermingle. The project aims to link contemporary art and science. Scientists from CSIRO and artists will work with local communities, land care groups and rural students to research the interaction between natural and human living environments. The works will examine different modes of cohabitation between people, plants and animals sharing contested territories.
Development Funding: $35 000
