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Visions of Australia - Grant Round 14
October 2000
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Drill Hall Gallery
A major survey of the career of this important artist, the exhibition Peter Purves Smith (1912-1949), will include 50 paintings and drawings from important public and private collections. Purves Smith had a seminal influence on some of the most significant Australian artists of the 20th century including Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan. The exhibition will tour to Perth, Bulleen and Benalla.
Grant: $40 000
National Library of Australia
Ephemeral by nature, and generally short-lived due to the conditions under which they were displayed, only a fraction of the large print runs of Australian travel posters have survived. Follow the Sun: Australian Travel Posters 1930s to1950s presents a rare opportunity to view over 50 large travel posters from the heyday of Australian poster design. The exhibition will tour to Darwin, Geraldton, Brisbane, Adelaide and Murwillumbah.
Grant: $51 000
National Science and Technology Centre
The Mathamazing Exhibition is a hands-on interactive exhibition, which allows visitors to discover the ways mathematics is a part of everyday life, at work, home and play. It is designed to be accessible to visitors of all ages. The exhibition will travel to Penrith, Albury, Adelaide, Bendigo and Newcastle.
Grant: $92 580
NEW SOUTH WALES
Bundanon Trust
The project will develop Rivers and Rocks: Select works by Brett Whiteley and Arthur Boyd. The exhibition will bring together works by two of the nation's best known and most accomplished artists. It will explore the theme of the riverine environment in its physical and poetic manifestations, which is relevant to both metropolitan and regional audiences.
Grant: $24 600
State Library of New South Wales
The Matthew Flinders Bicentennial Exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia, 1801-1803, in The Investigator. The development of this exhibition will enable a number of important works from overseas collections, to be brought to Australia.
Grant: $50 000
Object-Australian Centre for Craft and Design
The development of the exhibition Art on a String will provide an opportunity for audiences to focus on the significantly under-examined production of beaded necklaces and other threaded items by Aboriginal women artists. The exhibition will comprise around 100 necklaces by over 60 artists from Arnhem Land and the Western Desert.
Grant: $47 500
Wagga Wagga City Council
A commemoration of Australian rural Olympians, They Came from the Bush-Our National Olympic Heroes celebrates the cultural significance and social relevance sport has in rural communities. Over 125 athletes will be represented in the exhibition. The exhibition will tour to 14 regional and remote venues in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
Grant: $35 700
Sydney Jewish Museum
The Holocaust-Learning from Humanity's Greatest Tragedy documents Hitler's rise to power and anti-semitism. By presenting some of the Sydney Jewish Museum's precious memorabilia, the exhibition aims to raise awareness amongst contemporary audiences about issues of racial and ethnic intolerance. The exhibition will travel to Adelaide, Hobart, Wollongong and Penrith.
Grant: $71 500
Museums and Galleries Foundation of New South Wales
The exhibition Rings of History: Contemporary Craft from Historical Timbers will present works by contemporary designer/makers, from all States and Territories, using native timbers from the historic ANU Dadswell Collection which includes timbers collected from all regions of Australia. The exhibition will tour to every State and Territory.
Grant: $83 498
Dubbo Regional Art Gallery
George Lambert: An Australian Icon is an exhibition of works by Lambert drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and extracted from their Olympic Arts Festival exhibition Australian Icons. The exhibition will tour to Bathurst, Albury, Bendigo and Gymea.
Grant: $18 000
Casula Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre
Cybercultures: Sustained Release is a new media art exhibition highlighting the work of some Australian artists at the leading-edge of this area of art practice. The extensive tour will take the exhibition to 23 venues across five States and Territories.
Grant: $115 880
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Womens Council
Manguri Weaving is an exhibition of 50 contemporary woven baskets and sculptures from the remote Ngaanyatjarra and Pitjantjatjarra Aboriginal Communities in the Central Western Desert regions. The exhibition traces and highlights the various stages of development of the weavings, from traditional hair rings to free form shapes, then to tighter vessels, sculptures and to more individualistic and coloured items. The works will reflect influences gained through cultural exchanges with South Australian Coorong women, Top End weavers and some non-Aboriginal weavers and will communicate many specific stories about modern desert life. The exhibition will be displayed in Darwin, Alice Springs, Kalgoorlie, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Moree.
Grant: $30 000
QUEENSLAND
Australian Sugar Industry Museum
The Refined White exhibition explores the social impact of the White Australia policy on the South Sea Islander people. It includes the important contribution they made to the development of the sugar industry, and the development and achievements of their community since 1901. The exhibition will tour to Mackay, Brisbane, Caloundra, Bundaberg, Joskeleigh, Mourilyan, Gladstone, Stanthorpe, Maclean, Melbourne, Casula and Townsville.
Grant: $49 700
VICTORIA
Oz Child Children Australia
Start-up funding will assist with the collation of archival material and the location of former residents of a Melbourne orphanage, leading to the development of an exhibition of treated archival photographs, Multi Media Art. It will depict the lives of the children in the orphanage and under the care of the agencies.
Grant: $4 000
Asia Society AustralAsia Centre
The Indonesian Twentieth Century Art Exhibition covers the development of Indonesian art in the 20th century addressing the influence of western modernism and traditional art in the social and political context. The works are from both Australian and Indonesian public and private collections to further build bridges between Indonesia and Australia.
Grant: $69 500
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Martin Lewis-Stepping into the Light profiles the life and work of Castlemaine born printmaker Martin Lewis (1881-1962). Lewis established a significant reputation in printmaking in New York and taught the major American Realist artist Edward Hopper. His prints convey a unique vision of life in New York City in the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
Grant: $14 000
Gold Museum
The development of the exhibition Rare Blue and White Textiles of Inland China will provide an opportunity for these holdings to be seen more widely. Missionaries collected these peasant made textiles from Szechuan Province between 1894 and 1915. The exhibition will be primarily about the importance of these articles as examples of Chinese needlework.
Grant: $30 000
The Society of Advertising, Commercial and Magazine Photographers
The Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers Collection exhibition will feature the collection of the Australian Commercial and Magazine Photographer's annual print awards. The exhibition will tour to Melbourne, Sydney Hobart, Brisbane, Canberra, Fremantle, Darwin, Alice Springs and Adelaide.
Grant: $31 000
Monash University
Telling Tales: the Child in Contemporary Photography explores representations of children and childhood by presenting the work of eleven artists working with this subject as a source for personal, social and cultural investigation. The exhibition will tour to Bendigo, Campbelltown, Adelaide and Brisbane.
Grant: $6 600
TASMANIA
The One Tree Project
The One Tree exhibition aims to show what can be created from just one tree, by presenting a range of products made from an entire stringy bark tree to highlight the value of the forest to the community. Thirty of Tasmania's crafts people will produce work from musical instruments and bowls to furniture and sculpture, as well as baskets, medicines and dyes.
Grant: $16 197
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Dinosaurs of Darkness features recent research about Australia's polar dinosaurs and the other animals such as amphibians and mammals that lived in extreme climatic conditions. Supporting the material from Australia will be original specimens of dinosaurs and other animals and plants from both Antarctica and Alaska. The exhibition will tour to Hobart, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.
Grant: $52 136
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Country Arts South Australia
Start-up funding will provide professional research assistance to develop the concept for Sports = Life. This exhibition will constitute a critical celebration of the collective obsession of sport in country/regional communities. It will seek to acknowledge the centrality and social value of sport, while also inviting conscious reflection on less celebratory aspects of sport.
Grant: $3 500
Art Gallery of South Australia
Modern Australian Women-paintings and prints:1925-1945, will focus on work by Australian women artists of the modernist period. Colour, form and subjects are explored in a way not previously attempted in Australian art and the artists were among the originators of cubism and semi-abstraction in this country. The exhibition will tour to Perth, Canberra, Sydney, Ballarat and Geelong.
Grant: $54 000
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Museum of Childhood
The exhibition Indigenous Childhood addresses the experience of Indigenous children over time through recorded video interviews, text/graphic panels, some artefacts and interactives. The central focus will be readily understood by child visitors but will also have the power to affect the thinking of adult visitors.
Grant: $57 000
International Art Space, Kellerberrin (IASKA)
Funding will assist the development of Out of Site, a retrospective exhibition featuring selected works and documents covering the first three years of IASKA. This cultural and artistic project, based in a small rural town in the West Australian wheatbelt, aimed to test forms of interaction between contemporary artists and the local community.
Grant: $25 000