Funding round 31
NEW SOUTH WALES
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Women with Clever Hands: Gapuwiyak Miyalkurruwurr Gong Djambatjamla
To be developed by the guest curator, Dr Louise Hamby, this exhibition will explore the weaving and fibre traditions of the women artists of Gapuwiyak in northeast Arnhem Land, NT. The exhibition will highlight the skill and innovation of individual makers past and present through the development of baskets, mats, bags, sculpture and body wear and the Gapuwiyak artists concern with the revival and continuation of fibre traditions and forms. The artists aspire for the exhibition to encourage younger Indigenous women to become involved in fibre practice as a means of artistic, economic and cultural growth.
Development Funding: $85,887
Bundanon Trust
Boyd Ceramics: From the Bundanon Trust Collection (Provisional Title)
Curated by Grace Cochrane, this exhibition will include ceramics, drawings and paintings, selected from the Bundanon Trust Collection, featuring the work of the ceramicist Merric Boyd (1888–1959) and his son, artist Arthur Boyd (1920–1999). The exhibition will also look at the artistic influence of Merric and Doris Boyd on their children Lucy, Arthur, Guy, David and Mary. A scholarly catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Development Funding: $65,500
Tamworth Regional Art Gallery
Momentum: 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
The Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial has the reputation of being the pre-eminent representative survey exhibition of fibre textile art in Australia. Momentum: 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, curated by Valerie Kirk, continues the legacy of the Biennial by investigating the impact that new technology has had on current fibre textile practice. Featuring the works of 25 emerging and established fibre and textile artists from every Australian state and territory, Momentum: 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial is a diverse and stimulating exhibition that reflects current contemporary textile practice in Australia.
The exhibition will tour to nine venues in NSW, ACT, VIC, WA and SA.
Touring Funding: $78,250
Parramatta Heritage Centre
Women Transported: Life in Australia’s Convict Female Factories
Women Transported: Life in Australian Female Factories is a social history exhibition which focuses on life in 18th and early 19th century Australian female factories and the convict system during colonial times told from the perspective of women themselves. The important stories of the women are explored in this touring exhibition which also contains objects including textiles, photographs, paintings and artefacts drawn from diverse national collections. The exhibition will be augmented through diverse education and public programs as well as a scholarly catalogue publication.
The exhibition will tour to 10 venues in NSW, TAS, ACT and QLD.
Touring Funding: $83,047
Penrith Regional Gallery & the Lewers Bequest
Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007
Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963-2007 is a major retrospective of colour paintings by the acclaimed and influential Australian abstract painter Sydney Ball (b.1933). Tracing Ball’s career from the early 1960s, the exhibition will feature works from his colour-field and hard-edge abstraction periods, review the work of this major Australian artist and explore the development of Australian abstraction within an international context. Works will be drawn from significant public and private collections throughout Australia.
The exhibition will tour to two venues in VIC and SA.
Touring Funding: $20,750
Museum of Contemporary Art
Simryn Gill
Curated by Russell Storer, a major touring exhibition focusing on the Australian artist Simryn Gill will showcase the creative process of Gill’s practice with works from across a range of methods and media including photography, objects, installation and artist books that explore the artist questioning of the ‘micro-politics’ of local life, human relationships and communication. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major publication as well as extensive education and public programs.
The exhibition will tour to four venues in SA, WA and QLD.
Touring Funding: $98,500
Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design
Jeff Mincham: Ceramics
Fifth in the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series, this exhibition is a major retrospective of the internationally recognised and influential Australian ceramic artist Jeff Mincham. The exhibition will chart Mincham’s practice to date and will explore the artist’s longstanding interest with the Australia landscape, particularly his ongoing passion with the South Australian countryside which is dramatically expressed through bold graphic interpretation of the patterns and colours of the region. Mincham is developing a major new body of work specifically for the exhibition that will showcase his ongoing research and experimentation with surface textures and firing techniques.
The exhibition will tour to 12 venues in NSW, QLD, SA, VIC and WA.
Touring Funding: $38,680
QUEENSLAND
Artisan (formerly Craft Queensland)
Tour de Force – in case of emergency break the glass
Curated by Megan Bottari, this exhibition of contemporary glass features the work of eight nationally and internationally acclaimed Australian artists. Tour de Force will showcase innovative objects and installation works that explore conceptual art practice that challenges and brings a fresh approach to contemporary Australian craft and glass practice.
Development Funding: $50,400
Queensland
Bobby Dazzler! Celebrating the Helpmann Centenary
Bobby Dazzler! Celebrating the Helpmann Centenary marks the centenary of the birth of one of Australia’s theatrical legends, Sir Rober Helpmann, the internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, actor and director. The exhibition brings together a selection of photographic and print material, costumes, artefacts, personal memorabilia, and audio visual material that explores the legacy of this significant Australian.
The exhibition will tour to four venues in SA, QLD and VIC.
Touring Funding: $67,050
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 with his works revered for their sublime depictions of the Australian landscape. This national survey exhibition will display his most popular works as well as rarely seen early works and reveal new scholarship in a catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition. The exhibition will feature oil paintings, watercolours and drawings drawn from the Art Gallery of South Australia and also includes loans from other Australian collections.
Touring to six venues in VIC, TAS, ACT, QLD and NSW.
Touring Funding: $82,000
Carrick Hill Trust
Nora Heysen: Light and Life
Curated by Jane Hylton, Nora Heysen: Light and Life is a major survey exhibition of the acclaimed 20th century Australian painter Nora Heysen AM (1911-2003), daughter of Hans Heysen, who was an accomplished artist in her own right. She became the first female to win the Archibald Prize (1938) and was also appointed as an Official War Artist (1943). The exhibition will explore her significant career and features over 45 figurative, portrait and still-life works drawn from diverse collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Touring to four venues in VIC, NSW and SA.
Touring Funding: $91,585
VICTORIA
Experimenta
Experimentopia
Experimentopia is a media art exhibition curated by Liz Hughes and Emma McRae, featuring interactive and screen based artworks that allow audiences to engage and interact with perfect/imperfect scenarios and environments. 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 feature newly developed media art work from leading artists in Australia and key selected international media artists.
Development Funding: $42,280
NETS Victoria
This way art: Trevor Nickolls, a survey
Trevor Nickolls (b. 1949) is a senior indigenous artist and seminal figure in Australian contemporary art who has exhibited nationally and internationally for over thirty years. Curated by Michael O’Ferrall, This way art: Trevor Nickolls, is the first major museum survey of Nickolls’ practice. The exhibition will include works that explore alienation, the urban landscape, identity and Aboriginality in Australia. Featured works will include self-portraiture and urban landscapes from the early 1980s to the present, including paintings and works on paper together drawn from private and public collections from Australia and Europe.
Touring to five venues in ACT, VIC, SA and NT.
Touring Funding: $80,000
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
National Archives of Australia
Strike a Pose…with Lee Lin Chin
Strike a Pose…with Lee Lin Chin is an exhibition that showcases Australian fashion trends during the period of social change from the 1960s to the late 1970s. The exhibition features fashion images drawn from the National Archives’ extensive photographic collection which were taken by Australian Government photographers for promotional purposes. The exhibition is guest curated by Lee Lin Chin, SBS news presenter and host of Fashionista, who provided her unique insight and idiosyncratic commentary on an exhibition that explores not only the fashion of the era but also the social and cultural changes that occurred in those dynamic decades.
The exhibition will tour to 15 venues in NSW, VIC, QLD and SA.
Touring Funding: $79,760
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Art on the Move
Nalda Searles: Drifting in My Own Land
Nalda Searles: Drifting in My Own Land is the first solo touring exhibition in over 20 years of the reputed fibre textile artist and educator, Nalda Searles. Works created especially for the exhibition draw primarily on inspiration from the lives and writings of regionally based Western Australian women and incorporate the innovative use of Australian plant fibre and found objects. Nalda Searles: Drifting in My Own Land is to be accompanied by a catalogue publication and targeted education and public programming opportunities.
The exhibition will tour to 16 venues in WA, VIC, TAS, NSW, QLD and SA.
Touring Funding: $97,974
