Funding Recipients Round 29 October 2007
NEW SOUTH WALES
Object—Australian Centre for Craft and Design
Animal Sculptures and their Stories (Working Title)
Animal Sculptures and their Stories is an exhibition, to be developed in collaboration with the Australian Museum and Taronga Zoo, of sculptural works depicting various animal forms, created by 30 leading Indigenous artists from across Australia. The exhibition will survey the breadth of Indigenous sculptural practice including ceramics from the Tiwi Islands and Hermannsburg, fibre-based works from south-east Australia and Arnhem Land, various styles of wood carving, and mixed media assemblages by urban Indigenous artists.
Development Funding: $91 500
Museums and Galleries New South Wales
New South Wales Cultural Treasures
Curated by John McPhee, New South Wales Cultural Treasures is an exhibition bringing together for the very first time significant cultural and historical collections across long established and major cultural institutions in New South Wales and showcasing them to a regional and interstate audience. These institutions include the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Museum, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Powerhouse Museum, State Library of New South Wales, State Records Authority of New South Wales, and Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition will tour to five venues in NSW and SA.
Touring Funding: $145 600
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
BloodLines: Art and the Horse
The horse has played and continues to play an important role in Australian culture and identity. This is reflected in the number of significant artworks produced by Australian artists and in the number of contemporary artists who are attracted to the horse as a subject for study. BloodLines: Art and the Horse is an exhibition about the horse as an aesthetic icon. A rich spectrum of equine imagery selected by curator Peter Fay from significant works of contemporary, colonial and outsider art aims to tap into the extensive links between Australians and horses, from past to present.
The exhibition will tour to seven venues in NSW, VIC and QLD.
Touring Funding: $82 000
Art Gallery of New South Wales
9 Shades of Whiteley
The retrospective exhibition, 9 Shades of Whiteley, showcases some of Brett Whiteley’s greatest works of art, including selected paintings, drawings and sculptures from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Brett Whiteley Studio Museum Collections. The exhibition is a chronological journey through the development of Whiteley’s technique and draughtsmanship and includes a selection of work that traces the artist’s life and career from his earliest work in 1955 to just a few months before his death in 1992.
The exhibition will tour to six venues in NSW, VIC and QLD.
Touring Funding: $30 000
QUEENSLAND
Museum and Gallery Services Queensland
Intimate Transactions
Intimate Transactions is a dual-site exhibition that encourages participation and engagement with new electronic media art on multiple levels. It features an interactive installation, utilising digital imagery, multi-channel sound and tactile feedback, allowing two people in geographically separate locations to interact using only their bodies. This innovative work combines three-dimensional animated imagery composited in a two-dimensional environment, being projected into an adjacent viewing space where audiences can engage with it.
The exhibition will tour to eight venues in QLD, NSW, VIC and SA.
Touring Funding: $52 970
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Diaspora: Mapping Migration in Textiles
Jill Kinnear, a Scottish Australian printed textile designer, is interested in the role that textiles play as a cultural signifier of history, place and identity. The exhibition Diaspora: Mapping Migration in Textiles concerns the experience of emigration, migrant dislocation and diaspora, by drawing on Kinnear’s personal experience of migration from Scotland to Australia. The collection of digitally printed textiles and garments originate from constructions of steel and other metal elements which she has passed through the baggage X-ray machine at Brisbane International Airport.
The exhibition will tour to four venues in QLD and NSW.
Touring Funding: $9 977
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Artback NT Arts Touring – Alice Springs
Replant: A New Generation of Botanical Art
A cross-cultural exhibition, Replant: A New Generation of Botanical Art,combines science and art and includes etchings and photographs exploring the plants of tropical north Australia by artists including Fiona Hall, Judy Watson, Deborah Wurrkidj and Winsome Jobling. Working with the Northern Territory Herbarium, the artists have explored the scientific, cultural and social aspects of Indigenous plant species with traditional knowledge custodians from the Daly River region and ethno botanist, Glenn Wightman.
The exhibition will tour to nine venues in the NT, SA, ACT, NSW, TAS and QLD.
Touring Funding: $22 125
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Art Gallery of South Australia
Hans Heysen
Hans Heysen (1877–1968), was a leading figure in Australian art and one of the major Australian landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. His work, revering the rugged majesty of the eucalypt, enjoyed enormous popularity in his lifetime. This national survey exhibition marks the 40th anniversary of Heysen's death and celebrates the 80th anniversary of the first exhibition of his Flinders Ranges series of works. The exhibition will be sourced from the Art Gallery of South Australia which holds over 2000 Heysen works and also includes loans from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and other regional collections.
Development Funding: $50 000
National Motor Museum
Off the Beaten Track: A Journey Across the Nation
Off the Beaten Track: A Journey Across the Nation is a social history exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first crossing of the Australian continent by Harry Dutton and
Murray Aunger in a 1908 25 horse-power Talbot motor vehicle. The Talbot will travel on a purpose built trailer that converts to an exhibition venue and will visit 22 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory, following the route of the original 1908 journey. Off the Beaten Track aims to explore notions of Australian identity and frontier and will be told alongside more contemporary interpretations, which reflect upon the impact of motor vehicles on Indigenous people and the environmental impact of the now popular inland corridor.
Touring to 22 venues in SA and NT.
Touring Funding: $60 850
Australian Network for Art and Technology
Portable Worlds Second Edition
Portable Worlds Second Editionis a contemporary media exhibition featuring the work of eight artists whose works reflect on the changing shape of communication and community, utilising the mobile phone as a creation tool and a personalised viewing space, exploring miniatures and reflecting on movement through Australian spaces. The exhibition will be accompanied by workshops which will be developed in direct consultation with each of the communities that the exhibition visits.
The exhibition will tour to six venues in SA, TAS, VIC and NT.
Touring Funding: $47 580
South Australian Museum
Ngurrara: The Great Sandy Desert Canvas
This exhibition centres on the largest Western Desert painting in existence—the Ngurrara canvas
(8 x 10 metres), painted by senior traditional owners of the Great Sandy Desert of North Western Australia for presentation to the National Native Title Tribunal in 1997. The painting will be exhibited, supplemented by two bodies of work which reflect on it. One comprises a selection of paintings and film material, made during the painters’ more recent visits to their ancestral land and the other comprises artefacts, crayon drawings and maps of the Great Sandy Desert country made by the painters’ parental generation during a 1952 anthropological expedition.
The exhibition will tour to three venues in SA, ACT and NSW.
Touring Funding: $63 820
VICTORIA
Next Wave Festival Incorporated
Come on the Scene
Come on the Scene presents the work of five young regionally-based contemporary artists who transform the communities around them through their creative practice. Based in diverse locations across regional Australia, each artist's work uses innovative contemporary art processes and has a connection with local people who characterise the artist’s community, town or regional centre. The exhibition will include video, sculpture, painting, printmaking and installation works alongside documentation of the works being made in regional communities.
Development Funding: $22 500
Bendigo Art Gallery
Australian and British Artists in Cornwall (Working Title)
This exhibition project seeks to identify Australian artists who travelled to and studied in the seaside villages of Cornwall during the late 19th and early 20th century and who were influenced by the British artists living there. Cornwall was attractive to artists for a number of reasons—fantastic light, inexpensive living, and the availability of models. After seeing works by contemporary British artists in the Anglo-Australian Art Society exhibitions of 1889 and 1892 in Melbourne and Sydney, many Australian artists were drawn to the Cornwall epicentres of Newlyn and St Ives to experience the artistic and financial freedom found in those colonies.
Development Funding: $50 000
Experimenta Media Arts
Experimenta Playground
Experimenta Playground is a media art exhibition featuring interactive and screen based artworks around the theme of 'play'. The exhibition will showcase the latest work from Australia's leading media artists alongside key selected media artworks from artists around the globe. The exhibition invites audiences to interact and engage with inspirational media artworks that cover subjects ranging from the serious to the inventive. The exhibition will offer a unique environment in which audiences are asked to suspend their expectations of an exhibition experience and allow themselves to be empowered through interaction.
The exhibition will tour to five venues in NSW, VIC, SA and WA.
Touring Funding: $65 000
Jewish Museum of Australia
New Under the Sun: Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony III
The creation of Judaica for new Jewish ceremonies and rituals is the special focus of the third contemporary Judaica exhibition by the Jewish Museum of Australia. Since the 1970s, a renewal of Jewish consciousness has seen a rapid surge in the creation of new forms of Jewish expression, largely driven by the feminist movement and responding to both personal and national events. The exhibition will include Judaica created specifically for the exhibition by contemporary Australian artists and craftspeople.
The exhibition will tour to five venues in NSW, ACT and VIC.
Touring Funding: $59 868
Royal Botanic Gardens – Melbourne
Hidden in Plain View: The Forgotten Flora
Hidden in Plain View: The Forgotten Flora introduces the fascinating, and beautiful world that lies awaiting discovery in small carpets of fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts and hornworts. The exhibition highlights some of the extraordinary people who collected, illustrated or researched these cryptic organisms, and their personal tools, journals and letters. Hidden in Plain View includes over 100 objects, rarely publicly accessible, including original botanical paintings, historical and contemporary illustrations, correspondence, historic and contemporary books, Mueller's microscope, textiles and herbarium specimens from the Victorian State Botanical Collection, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, and various private collections.
The exhibition will tour to three venues in TAS, ACT and SA.
Touring Funding: $48 012
