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Grant recipients--May 2001 - 15th grant round

 

NEW SOUTH WALES

Bundanon Trust

Rivers and Rocks: Select works of Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley The theme of the riverine environment in all its physical and poetic manifestations has been an important motif in the work of Brett Whiteley and Arthur Boyd. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to bring together two of the nation's best known and most accomplished artists exploring a significant theme that is relevant to both metropolitan and regional Australia. It is also a rare chance for regional audiences to experience the quality and sheer beauty evident in the diverse thematic work of these two great artists. The exhibition will tour to Sydney, Orange, Armidale, Tewantin, Townsville, Emu Plains, Mornington and Ballarat from October 2001 to December 2002.

Touring Grant: $66 955

 

Museums and Galleries Foundation of New South Wales

Café Culture
This is an exhibition of community and cultural significance examining and presenting a social history of cafés and milk bars across rural New South Wales. It seeks to evoke the sounds, smells and feelings of cafés and milk bars through the presentation of images, objects, oral histories, music and film and tell the story of café owners, workers and their patrons. The story of the migrant experience in a new country will be a major focus of this exhibition, as many of them operated many cafes during the 1930s, 40s and 50s. It is believed to be the first exhibition entirely devoted to this topic. Exhibition development funding will enable further research to be carried out on the social history of milk bars and cafés, including locating original photographs, menus, material (such as crockery, straw holders, booths, etc.) and people.

Development Grant: $58 981

 

Powerhouse Museum

Women with Wings: Images of Australian women pilots This exhibition aims to create an informative and inspiring insight into the lives of Australian women pilots, by looking at the remarkable women who helped pioneer flying in Australia. The development of the exhibition also coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Australian Women Pilots' Association (AWPA) last year. It seeks to highlight the importance of AWPA in Australian aviation and encourage the ongoing spirit of a new generation of women pilots. The exhibition is touring to Brisbane, Townsville, Hobart, Melbourne, Eden, Wagga Wagga, Dangar, Grafton, Tamworth and Broken Hill from July 2001 to April 2003.

Touring Grant: $17 355

 

State Library of New South Wales

Matthew Flinders Bicentennial Exhibition (working title) This exhibition is a celebration of the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia, 1801-03, in the Investigator. It presents the story of three voyages in the context of Flinders' life and in the context of colonial and international politics at the time. It will explore the development of the science of navigation and the botanical and zoological investigation of Australia, which was a significant part of Flinders' mission. The impact of Flinders' voyage on the Indigenous inhabitants, whom Flinders was the first to call Australians, and on the European colonists, will be highlighted. Visions funding will enable the exhibition to tour to Sydney, Port Adelaide, Melbourne, South Brisbane, Townsville, Launceston, Canberra, Orange, Parkes, Wagga Wagga, Warragul, Warrnambool, Bowen, Karumba, Bundaberg and Weipa from October 2001 to June 2003.

Touring Grant: $128 510

 

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Artback NT Arts Touring Inc

Borragoo-Lake Gregory (working title) The exhibition will focus on two aspects of Borragoo (Lake Gregory), on the northern edge of the Great Sandy Desert region of Western Australia. The cultural significance and dreamtime history of the lake; and the arrival and effect of white settlers in the area. George Wallaby, Nellie Gordon, Violet Campbell and Billy Thomas are all senior and elderly Aboriginal artists born in country near the lake and all have strong spiritual connections with Borragoo. The grant will be used to undertake field excursions in the area for the artists to look and remember their country and to visit and record information about birthing places, ceremonial sites, other more disturbing sites, existing homesteads, wells and communities. This would enable work to be created especially for the exhibition and the collection of stories from community people and their familes.

Start-up Grant: $4 000

 

Artback NT Arts Touring Inc

Two Laws...One Big Spirit This exhibition looks at the reconciliation process that has developed through a dynamic painting dialogue between two differing systems of knowledge, or two laws. One an ancient and sacred tradition of inherited knowledge, and the other the cannon of geometric abstractionism. Rusty Peters a traditional Gija man from Western Australia and Peter Adsett from the Northern Territory both produced a series of seven works, each work being a direct response to the previous painting of the other. The exhibition will tour to Kalgoorlie, Fremantle, Waverley, Port Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, Ballarat, Grafton, Lismore, Gymea, Warwick, Woodridge, Cairns and Wagga Wagga from January 2002 to November 2003.

Touring Grant: $39 397.20

 

QUEENSLAND

Gurang Land Council

Native Title Business The exhibition will provide a national perspective on the state of native title in the year 2001 in Australia as expressed and interpreted by Aboriginal visual artists who are in the first instance native title holders or claimants, and secondly, whose work represents and reflects native title issues. Artists will be selected from all States and Territories to represent various aspects of and issues about native title in order to better inform the Australian public, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, about this vexatious issue.

Development Grant: $27 200

 

Regional Galleries Association of Queensland Inc.

Fathoming: Contemporary Australian Women Sculptors. Fathoming is a significant travelling exhibition of work by a selection of Australia's established, mid-career and emerging women sculptors. This funding will assist the development of this exhibition, which will address the lack of sculpture exhibitions available to regional audiences, with a view to contributing to the ongoing promotion of the profile of women in the arts in Australia. Fathoming challenges sculpture's traditional characteristics of monumentality.

Development Grant: $19 500

 

Regional Galleries Association of Queensland Inc.

Fathoming: Contemporary Australian Women Sculptors The work of Bronwyn Oliver, Sarah Robinson, Marea Gazzard, Hilarie Mais, Krista Berga, Lucky Kngwarreye and others, is representative of contemporary concerns, and engages with the long history of the largely male-dominated sculptural tradition in contemporary Australian practice. Highlighting the work of this selection of Australia's established, mid-career and emerging women sculptors, 'Fathoming' will travel to Surfers Paradise, Rockhampton, Townsville, Hervey Bay, Murwillumbah, Tamworth, Manly, Gymea, Langwarrin, Geelong, Ararat and Mildura from May 2002 to November 2004.

Touring Grant: $62 400.64

 

Surat Aboriginal Corporation

Houses & Humpies This exhibition is about the stories of four Aboriginal families who live in Surat in Southwest Queensland on the Great Inland Way to Cairns. One of the families has been there since before white settlement: the others migrated there in the 1950s. The families at one time or another have lived in houses and humpies on the riverbank, before most of the houses and humpies were bulldozed down in the 1970s and the Aboriginal families who lived in them moved into town. The remains of the Combarngo humpy are still standing today. The Surat Aboriginal Corporation has developed this exhibition which tells the stories with oral histories, photographs, government documents and the book Houses and Humpie-Stories From the Riverbank. The touring component consists of two humpies: the Clevens' 'tent' and the Combarngo 'humpy'. The exhibition will tour to Quilpie, Beenleigh, Adelaide, Broken Hill, Moree and Surat from September 2001 to November 2002.

Touring Grant: $28 916

 

VICTORIA

200 Gertrude Street

None More Blacker This exhibition explores the influence of glam rock and heavy metal music in contemporary Australian art. Encompassing painting, sculpture, installation and photography, None More Blacker presents the work of six emerging and established artists-Hayley Arjona, Adam Cullen, Alexander Knox, Ricky Swallow, John Meade and Lyndal Walker. Each of these artists has a demonstrated interest in heavy metal and glam rock as a cultural aesthetic through which they explore ideas of self-creation, fandom, national and private identity, performance and spectacle. The exhibition will tour to Geelong, Shepparton, Sale, Newcastle, Ipswich and Morwell from February 2002 to May 2003.

Touring Grant: $16 800

 

Gold Museum

Stitches of Blue on White: Rare Textiles from China Between 1894 and 1915, missionaries, George and Robina Arnott-Rogers, lived in the Szechuan Province of China. They collected examples of peasant-made blue and white textiles. These textiles are now extremely rare; some exist in the Field Museum in Chicago. The exhibition will be of particular interest to needlework enthusiasts, and of special interest to people of Chinese origin. In this capacity, the exhibition will also feature other Chinese artefacts collected by the Arnott-Rogers'. A further sub-theme of the exhibition will consider the lifestyle of western missionaries in China. Touring assistance will enable the exhibition to visit Bendigo, Devonport, Albury, Mt Gambier, Doncaster, Cairns, Darwin, Ararat and Ballarat from September 2001 to February 2003.

Touring Grant: $70 000

 

Monash Gallery of Art

Images of Australian Men Since the advent and introduction of photography into this country, men have been indissolubly linked to the practice-mostly as the image-makers. This exhibition seeks to explore and celebrate the way in which Australian men appear before the camera. From early documentary photography that captures the emergence of a pioneering spirit, to the movements of pictorialism and modernism, to contemporary photography practice, men in this country have been presented in a variety of guises, poses and situations. The exhibition will tour to Waverley, Sale, Swan Hill, Albury, Gladstone, Adelaide and Geelong from May 2002 to late 2003.

Touring Grant: $20 300

 

Museum of Victoria

Thookay ngaweeyan-Young Voices from Victoria This exhibition promotes an understanding of the Aboriginal community in Victoria through the art and stories of young Koori children. All works are from Museum Victoria's collection. They are very vibrant and espouse strong images and messages about the importance of family, community and culture for a young generation of Koori children in rural and urban Victoria in the 1990s. The aim is to profile works at each venue that are done by children from that region. The exhibition will tour to Bairnsdale, Benalla, Melbourne, Heywood, Albury, Warrnambool, Adelaide, Swan Hill, Sale, Wagga Wagga and Bathurst from July 2001 to January 2003.

Touring Grant: $57 725

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