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Visions of Australia - Grants round 18
18th grant round
Australian Capital Territory
Australian War Memorial
In Enemy Hands: Australian prisoners of war
'In Enemy Hands' will bring a very personal perspective to this aspect of Australians at war. While there is general awareness that many Australians have spent years in captivity as prisoners of war, the experience is one which we find difficult to comprehend or imagine. In this exhibition, the experience will be presented through the personal stories of servicemen and women and civilian internees: of survival, death, friendship, ingenuity, hunger, escape, leadership, boredom, and the sheer constant frustration of fighting a battle invisible to those at home.
'In Enemy Hands' includes items from the Memorial's national collection including diaries, letters, a notebook, cards, programs and games. The exhibition will tour to 14 venues in Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.
Touring Grant: $70,688
National Archives of Australia
Beacons by the Sea: Stories of Australian Lighthouses Lighthouses have played an important role in Australia's maritime history, weathering significant changes in technology and management. The romance and danger associated with living and working in a lighthouse has captured the imagination of many people. By examining the stories of lighthouse keepers and their families, shipwrecks, architecture, changes in technology and tourism associated with lighthouses, 'Beacons by the Sea' invites visitors to consider the important role of lighthouses in shaping the Australia of today, linking past and present, local and national, personal interest and national heritage. The exhibition will visit 15 venues throughout Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Touring Grant: $68,997
National Gallery of Australia
20 Icons: 20 Locations: National Gallery of Australia Birthday exhibition (working title) This exhibition will showcase the most significant and iconic works acquired by the National Gallery and makes available to Australians living outside Canberra, works of art selected by their own metropolitan or regional gallery, as relevant to their local community. The exhibition will tour to 20 venues in Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia.
Touring Grant: $95,458
National Library of Australia The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan
'The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan' is the first major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of Marian Ellis Rowan (1848 - 1922).
This exhibition and accompanying comprehensive publication will explore Ellis Rowan's unconventional life and the parallel development of her highly accomplished but relatively unrecognised contribution to Australian art.
The diverse range of media and subject matter Rowan worked with throughout her career, including paintings, works on paper, illustrations, painted ceramics and other decorative arts, will be exhibited together for the first time and made accessible to regional audiences. The exhibition will visit Mornington, Launceston, Castlemaine, Adelaide and Geraldton.
Touring Grant: $68,182
New South Wales
Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW
Pallingjang saltwater III 'Pallingjang saltwater III' is an exhibition of work by ten Indigenous artists from the Illawarra region in NSW. The exhibition centres on the theme of family. It demonstrates the importance that familial relationships and networks play in contemporary Aboriginal communities and society. Indigenous culture in the Illawarra has few visual forms remaining from the time before white settlement, however, certain aspects of local culture have remained intact, especially oral-based culture. 'Pallingjang saltwater III' has provided opportunities for artists to explore traditional stories and develop new perspectives often informed by an urban aesthetic, reinvigorating the Indigenous culture of the region and safeguarding it from being forgotten. The exhibition will tour to Bega, Adelaide, Moree, Broken Hill, Armidale, Gladstone, Tennant Creek, Batchelor and Yirrkala.
Touring Grant: $60,739
Northern Territory
Injalak Arts and Crafts Assoc.
Twined Together
'Twined Together' will highlight the work of women artists in western Arnhem Land who work with fibre to produce a range of work from string bags to coiled mats. The exhibition, catalogue and education kit that is being developed is designed to show the dynamic and unique aspects of fibre work from the stone country of Arnhem Land. The major component of the travelling exhibition will be contemporary work from the community. The other portion of the exhibition, historic baskets, is designed to show the continuous links with past traditions in the fibre area that have been ongoing since the earliest collections were made in the 1890s.
Development Grant: $85,586
South Australia
Flinders University Art Museum
Holy Holy Holy
'Holy Holy Holy' will reflect on the enduring impact of Christianity on Indigenous people in Australia through artworks by Indigenous and non Indigenous artists, social history and museum material. It will explore the response by Aboriginal people to a Christian message and the effects of missionary activity on missionaries and the Aboriginal people. The collections of Flinders University Art Museum, the South Australian Museum and The Lutheran Archives all hold relevant historical material, of which several items will travel with this exhibition. This project will show the impetus behind the contemporary works and will expand our understanding of how the history of missionary work is still impacting on all Australians. Development Grant: $43,091
Victoria
Australian Childrens Television Foundation
Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers - The Exhibition
Children understand and are intrigued by the concept of animation. This Exhibition allows children hands-on experience with the technical aspects of animation and to appreciate the skills of artists from our local animation industry, through the production of one of Australia's major animation series Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers. A 26 x 25 minute fully animated children's television series produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in association with ABC TV. After showing in Perth Western Australia, Adelaide and Victoria, the exhibition will visit Newcastle, Hobart, Sale, Goulburn, Coffs Harbour, Bathurst and Surfers Paradise. Touring Grant: $28,862
Centre for Contemporary Photography
Elastic
'Elastic' is a survey of new Australian digital art which explores the interface between new and old media cultures. The exhibition will be a celebration of the potential of multi-platform media to bring diverse formats and modes of art practice into dialogue and to facilitate public access through multiple delivery strategies.
'Elastic' provides a compelling insight into the concerns and sensibilities of artists whose practices encompass documentary photography, net art, computer animation, interactive media and sonic and video installation. For 'Elastic', the artists have re-purposed, hybridised and ruptured a diverse range of sources to construct visual and audio montages which explore the relationship between analogue and digital media. The exhibition will tour to Hobart, Warrnambool, Geelong, Shepparton, Morwell, Brisbane, Tewantin and Melbourne.
Touring Grant: $38,400
Monash Gallery of Art
New View: Indigenous Photographic Perspectives
The exhibition features the art of ten of Australia's leading indigenous photographers, drawn from the indigenous photography collection held in the Permanent Collection of the Monash Gallery of Art. The MGA plans to launch the exhibition on 4 April 2003 until 6 July 2003, then tour the exhibition throughout Australia to major public galleries. The launch of the exhibition will coincide with National Reconciliation Week, providing an opportunity for further promotion, appreciation and understanding of the issues of reconciliation. The exhibition will visit Wheelers Hill, Sale, Adelaide, Gladstone, Wollongong and Manly.
Touring Grant: $20,000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Glacier
'Glacier' is an exhibition about painting in the early 21st century. The works selected explore new possibilities for painting through the variable tools provided by technology and the languages of contemporary visual culture.
'Glacier' provides an opportunity to increase understanding of the role of and possibilities for technology as a tool in the context of a highly pleasurable material practice. The artworks address issues of cultural and ethnic difference, ecology, architecture and space and a new urbanism in a widely accessible and positive spirit. The exhibition will tour to Benalla, Newcastle, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Touring Grant: $16,822
Western Australia
Edith Cowan University
KOORLONGKA: Stories of Indigenous Childhood
Koorlongka introduces visitors to the childhood life experiences of a range of Aboriginal people. It highlights key elements common to Indigenous childhood and culture irrespective of time and place by linking past experience with the present. It seeks to communicate the common humanity shared between those whose stories comprise the exhibition and those who will visit, whether Indigenous or non Indigenous.
Through graphic panels, video and audio testimony, objects and interactives, today's children are linked with the experiences of previous generations in ways that reveal the transmission and adaptation of Indigenous culture. The exhibition will visit Kalgoorlie, Adelaide, Mildura, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Melbourne, Halls Gap and Launceston.
Touring Grant: $56,609