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17th grant round

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Australian War Memorial
1918: Australians in France-focuses on the great courage and sacrifice shown by Australian men and women during the final year of the war on the Western Front.

The exhibition features stories of ordinary individuals who performed extraordinary acts in the face of adversity. There are first hand accounts and photographic images of Australians killed in action in the final battles of World War I. The exhibition will tour to Zeehan, Devonport, Castlemaine, Beechworth, Sunbury, Griffith and Huskisson.
Touring Grant: $29,300

CSIRO-Australian National Wildlife Collection Foundation
The Macquarie Bank Foundation Travelling Wildlife Display-will show the uniqueness of Australia's vertebrate wildlife and the importance of the Australian National Wildlife Collection and other natural history collections in documenting and helping to preserve that uniqueness. The exhibition will heighten public awareness of Australian biodiversity and the role of natural history collections in promoting biodiversity conservation. The exhibition will tour to Canberra, Mosman, Goodwood, West Perth, Walpole, Parkville, Shepparton, Dubbo, Brisbane, Atherton, Darwin and Alice Springs.
Touring Grant: $57,300

National Library of Australia
Between the Sheets: A Century of Australian Music-charts the rise and subsequent decline of Australian sheet music throughout the 20th century. Popular themes, a cast of personalities and evocative stories are portrayed through oral histories, video clips and exhibition objects and film screenings that comprise the exhibition.

This colourful exhibition, presented in association with ScreenSound Australia, provides an entertaining and informative overview of Australia's social and political history throughout the past century. ScreenSound Australia has developed the video, sound and oral history components of the exhibition. The exhibition will tour to Orange, Townsville, Wangaratta, Adelaide, Tamworth and Brisbane.
Touring Grant: $45,000

NEW SOUTH WALES

Sydney Jewish Museum
Crossroads: Shanghai and the Jews of China-explores themes of migration, flight and rescue. Crossroads deals with the Jewish history of Shanghai, focussing on the city as a haven for Jews during World War II. The exhibition pays tribute to the racial and ethnic tolerance of the Chinese towards Jewish refugees during this significant historical period.

Crossroads relates the story of Jewish communities in China immediately before, during and after WWII with particular focus on Shanghai and the migration of many of the survivors to Australia after 1946. Numbering over 25,000, Shanghai's Jewish community consisted of three distinct groups-each with their own idenity-Oriental or Sephardic Jews, Russians Jews and Central European refugess from Nazism. Living in this exotic and cosmpolitan city they experienced a remakable degree of acceptance by the local Chinese population. The role that Shanghai played as a haven for Jewish refugees in this story has deep resonances for today.

To tell this fascinating and important story the exhibition draws on the private collections of those who migrated to Australia. The exhibition will tour to Bendigo, Dangar, Ararat, Cobar and Wollongong.
Touring Grant: $99,000

Tamworth City Gallery
15th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial: Material Witness In contemporary textiles practice there has been a resurgence in the desire to make objects, to use processes and materials in a way that investigates, transforms and enhances concepts to do with the body, architectural space, history (cultural, social and personal) and touch-often with surprising results. Artists often use the familiarity of textiles as a platform to present some challenging, provocative and subversive concepts to an unsuspecting audience. Material Witness refers to the desire to make objects and imbue them with personal, cultural, political or industrial meaning, evidenced through the material itself more than the illustration of an ideological stance. The exhibition will tour to Mornington, Brisbane, Campbelltown, Port Pirie, Murwillumbah, Perth and Launceston.
Touring Grant: $66,000

QUEENSLAND

Gold Coast City Art Gallery
6ft + clean: surf + art
With an estimated 2.3 million surfers in Australia, the surfing sub-culture is at the forefront of how Australians embrace the beach, the environment, music and fashion-indeed the act of surfing can be seen as an art form in itself. The exhibition will examine themes such as gender, identity, the surfing road trip and the materiality of the board itself. The exhibition will travel to seven venues on Australia's east coast.

The exhibition will contain 37 works of art from some of Australia's most prominent contemporary artists (Tracy Moffatt, Scott Redford, Anne Zahalka) and will include painting, printmaking, photography, video and sculpture. The exhibition will tour to Tewantin, Townsville, Rockhampton, Coffs Harbour, Manly and Mornington.
Touring Grant: $22,980

Gurang Land Council
Painting Native Title Business-will present the work of 54 indigenous Australian artists from all states and the NorthernTerritory. Their work will explore the current relationship between Australian Native Title law and land use, and indigenous cultural practices and perspectives. The range of work in the exhibition will reflect community diversity and the most contemporary Indigenous arts practised today. In order to promote understanding and reconciliation and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Australian High Court Mabo decision, it will be presented with accompanying historical, contextural information which will inform the general public about Native Title. The exhibition will tour to Brisbane, Hervey Bay, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Blackwater, Cairns, Townsville, Toowoomba, Tewantin, Moree, Port Macquarie, Annandale, Paddington, Canberra, Wangaratta, Wagga Wagga, Sale, Melbourne, Launceston, Hobart, Horsham, Mildura, Mt Gambier, Murray Bridge, Port Pirie, Port Lincoln and Adelaide.
Touring Grant: $56,000

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre
Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft-celebrates the distinctive beauty and regional diversity of Australia's unique Indigenous flora and fauna as inspiration for works in a wide range of media by 45 contemporary artists, more than half of whom are Aboriginal. The theme is inspired by the the words of Wandjuk Marika-'The land is not empty, the land is full of knowledge, full of story, full of goodness, full of energy, full of power. It surveys artists using flora and fauna poetically and metaphorically to allude to deeper issues in the national psyche relating to ecological sustainablity, identity and reconciliation based on understanding of our shared cultural responsibilities as custodians of this land. The exhibition will tour to Mildura, Sydney, Speers Point, Armidale, Tamworth, Brisbane, Tewantin, Cairns and Rockhampton.
Touring Grant: $68,900

TASMANIA

Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST)
Gulliver's Travels-reflects the way in which artists propose alternative realities while grounding their work in the known and familiar.

The exhibition draws together major early to mid career visual artists from around Australia whose work reflects certain tendencies which are of common interest while displaying considerable diversity in media and methods.

The exhibition ranges across a number of forms and media such as cardboard construction, textiles, computer generated images, glass, paper, fibreglass, glass crayon, wool, stereolithography and various combinations of media.The exhibition is touring to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane.
Touring Grant: $10,150

VICTORIA

Bendigo Art Gallery
A Primrose from England-Victorian Narrative Painting from the Collection of Bendigo Art Gallery Drawn from the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection, A Primrose from England will focus on a selection of Victorian narrative paintings from the permanent collection of Bendigo Art Gallery. The exhibition will highlight 19th century allegorical tales, stories of sentimentality and nostalgia with poetic and literary overtones, classical landscape paintings, themes of love, duty, forgiveness, death, war and human tragedy.

The exhibition consists of early acquisitions, gifts and bequests that reflect the taste and attitude of the Victorian era, with several of the works purchased from the 1888 Centennial Exhibition. Some of the selected oil paintings, watercolours and sculpture have become the foundation of the collection of Bendigo Art Gallery (established in 1887) and form part of the Gallery's permanent display. Other works, which have remained in storage due to their fragile condition, will be exhibited for the first time in several decades after extensive conservation treatments. The exhibition will tour to Surfers Paradise, Newcastle, Mornington and Waverley.
Touring Grant: $30,240

Mildura Regional Art Gallery
'What's going on': Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Murray Darling Region-brings together Indigenous artists from the Murray Darling region, an area fractured by largely artificial state boundaries but strongly connected through river systems and family relationships. The exhibition seeks to recognise, promote and celebrate the artists working in this region. The exhibition will tour to Mildura, Menindee, Berri, Glossop, Robinvale, Swan Hill, Wilcannia, Broken Hill, Adelaide and Melbourne.
Touring Grant: $25,545

Art on the Move-The National Touring Structure for WA Inc
Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection The Wesfarmers Collection, as a comprehensive body of work has never travelled outside Western Australia. This tour presents a one-off opportunity for the wider Australian community to see one of the foremost corporate collections in this country.

The exhibition, produced in collaboration with The Art Gallery of Western Australia, traverses the full historical span of the collection. It links works from colonial through to contemporary periods within an overarching theme of 'the sublime', specifically looking at ways in which works of art can engage with traditional and contemporary understandings of this concept. The exhibition will tour to Geraldton, Bunbury, Cairns, Hobart, Bendigo and Mornington.
Touring Grant: $73,000

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