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Grant recipients - October 2001
16^th grant round

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Australian War Memorial
Stella Bowen : art, love and war is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of this expatriate Australian artist. The exhibition covers Bowen's career from the early work in Adelaide before her departure in 1914, to work completed in England and the United States in the 1930s and 40s. The exhibition will tour to Adelaide, Melbourne, Mornington, Ballarat, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Grafton and Bathurst.
Touring Grant: $69,543

National Museum of Australia
Travelling Eternity
Based on the innovative and popular Eternity exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, Travelling Eternity will bring to life the personal stories of 50 ordinary and extraordinary Australians and use them as windows into larger events and moments in Australian history. Travelling Eternity is an intimate look at Australian identity and experience which emphasises the importance of individuals in the wider Australian story.
Development Grant: $85,000

NEW SOUTH WALES

Gadigal Information Service
Mum Shirl:The Sacred Trust of Memory Touring Exhibition
This exhibition is a tribute to an ordinary Australian who achieved extraordinary things. Mum Shirl, an Indigenous woman, mother and social reformer fearlessly devoted her life to helping those most in need - Indigenous and non-Indigenous. The works in the exhibition - by artists from many different backgrounds - provide a role model to Australian people and promote Reconciliation between Indigenous and other Australians. The exhibition will visit Wagga Wagga, Tamworth, Cowra, Taree, Moree, Armidale, Melbourne, Wangaratta and Halls Gap.
Touring Grant: $51,000

Grafton Regional Gallery
Imaging identity and place
This exhibition will investigate explorations of personal identity and sense of place in the work of nine contemporary practitioners working in various media including painting, photography and printmaking. Artists utilise notions of 'place' to help define personal identity. The exhibition will tour to Brisbane, Goulburn, Manly, Bendigo, Albury, Murwillumbah, Campbelltown, Surfers Paradise and Tamworth.
Touring Grant: $57,207

Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Larsen and Lewers
A retrospective of the jewellery of Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers was held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1986. The Larsen and Lewers exhibition will review their national and international work and careers since then. Focussing on the development of ideas and their design process, the exhibition will document the stages from drawing, etching, photography, design and finally the production of the pieces and will comprise over 100 pieces of jewellery. The tour will visit Maitland, Armidale, Campbelltown, Canberra, Hamilton, Adelaide, Wollongong, Penrith, Wagga Wagga and Toowoomba.
Touring Grant: $26,000

Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Jon Molvig, Expressionist
Newcastle-born Jon Molvig was one of the most colourful, temperamental and rebellious characters in Australian painting from the 1950s until the time of his death in 1970. This touring exhibition will bring together 27 major expressionist paintings plus a wide selection of the artist's expressionist drawings. Loans of works are from major public and private collections across Australia. After showing in Newcastle, the exhibition will tour to Brisbane, Canberra and Waverley.
Touring Grant: $40,000

Object - Australian Centre for Craft and Design
Art on a String
This exhibition will present contemporary innovative art/craft practice of threaded or beaded objects by Indigenous women artists. It focuses specifically on works by artists from Arnhem Land and the Central Desert. Extraordinary examples of necklaces, bracelets, curtains and other threaded objects have been selected and are presented in considered groups, to demonstrate the specific design sensibilities and particular interests in materials of the various artists. The exhibition will tour to Melbourne, Wagga Wagga, Adelaide, Albury, Perth, Alice Springs and Brisbane.
Touring Grant: $39,400

Wollongong City Art Gallery
Tracking Cloths
This exhibition identifies the important role Indigenous (Australian and South East Asian) textile/fibre techniques have played in informing the work of contemporary Australian textile artists. The tour of this exhibition will give people in both regional and metropolitan centres opportunities to view this work which speaks of Australia's peculiar position of being a Western culture, transplanted over indigenous cultures and located geographically within Asian cultures. The exhibition will tour to Wollongong, Tewantin, Adelaide, Armidale, Port Pirie and Hobart.
Touring Grant: $30,000

QUEENSLAND
Craft Queensland
Future Factor
This exhibition highlights ideas for the future by investigating the impact of new technologies on craft and design practice. Focussing on future materials, future objects and new processes and technologies, it features ten contemporary artists, designers and craftspeople from around Australia. The exhibition will tour to Brisbane, Surfers Paradise, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Maroochydore.
Touring Grant: $53,546

Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Cultur-e-café
In most, if not all, cultural landscapes there is a fascination with the visible landscape. Through collaboration between the fields of art, history and urban design at the Gold Coast, this unique exhibition concept, aimed at elevating public consciousness and appreciation of the cultural landscape, will be developed. This includes consideration of the invisible social, economic and political landscapes, alongside physical or material places. It will incorporate multi-media and other interactives.
Startup Grant: $4,000

Queensland Museum
Intimate Aliens
In telling the story of parasites, Intimate Aliens will impart significant messages about our health and that of our pets, stock, crops and wildlife. The exhibition will include scale models of parasites, interactive multimedia presentations, image panels, interactive light paths showing the progression of parasites/disease through the human body, microscopes and a film showing historical films of Townsville's School of Tropical Medicine, early veterinary treatments for disease in the cattle industry.
Development Grant: $75,000

TASMANIA
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodies
A W N Pugin's (1812-52) work and his design theories played a key role in the architecture and decorative arts of nineteenth and early 20^th century Australia. Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodies will highlight the significance of his Australian heritage, the majority of which is still in private collections and has never been exhibited before. Visions assistance will enable the exhibition to tour to Bendigo, Canberra and Sydney.
Touring Grant: $89,593

The One Tree Project
One Tree
One Tree presents an alternative vision for the use of our native forests. The entire exhibition has been created from one tree that was destined to be woodchipped. All parts of the tree - stem, roots, limbs, leaves, bark, and even the sawdust - have been used to create the works. The 50 works created for the exhibition range from traditional and contemporary timber furniture to baskets, bowls, textiles, puppets, paper and medicine. After successful showings in Tasmania, this exhibition will tour to Geelong, Central Tilba, Bairnsdale, Buladehlah, Murwillumbah, Ipswich, Townsville, Melbourne and Port Macquarie.
Touring Grant: $55,520

VICTORIA
Bendigo Art Gallery
A Primrose from England - Victorian Narrative Painting from the Collection of Bendigo Art Gallery
The exhibition will focus on a selection of Victorian narrative paintings from the permanent collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery. Following the discovery of gold and the wealth that it generated, Bendigo took on the hallmarks of a Victorian city. The exhibition will highlight 19th century allegorical tales, stories of sentimentality and nostalgia with poetic and literary overtones, classical subject matter, themes of love, duty, forgiveness, death, war and human tragedy.
Development Grant: $47,000

Birds Australia
A Bird in the Hand ...Conservation Through Knowledge
This exhibition presents the history, development, scope and current relevance of the science of ornithology. It focuses on laboratory and field research to arrive at a practical understanding of 'Conservation Through Knowledge'. Drawing on the ornithological collections of Museum Victoria, the displays will include skins, eggs, nests, skeletons, spirit-specimens, scientific reports, sketch books, field notes, scientific journals, books and recordings of bird calls.
Development Grant: $39,639

Free Kindergarten Association
Children and war: Glimpses of pain and hope
This exhibition is a collection of paintings that were produced by the Kosovar and East Timorese children who were residents at the Puckapunyal Safe Haven in 1999. Over 4 000 pieces of artwork have been collected and collated, of these 100 have been selected for exhibition. The exhibition aims to give viewers an understanding of these children's experiences and how trauma and ongoing upheaval affect children's behaviour and development.
Development Grant: $44,000

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc.
a stone upon a stone
The touring version of this exhibition will consist of 24 narrative panels that will tell the story of drystone walling in the making of the Australian landscape. Documents, photographs, maps, tools of the trade, artefacts and small models, will form the core of the touring material. Community involvement and educational activities will be an important part of this exhibition. The exhibition will tour 24 venues in Victoria and New South Wales.
Touring Grant: $75,400

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Art on the Move - The National Touring Structure for WA Inc
SKYLAB - Purli ngaangkalitji (Fallen star)
This exhibition will be an exploration of part of Western Australia's historic and scientific heritage through contemporary visual art and the latest audiovisual and multimedia technologies, such as 3-D imaging and 3-D viewing interface systems. The exhibition will focus on events that took place at two sites in Western Australia, Esperance and Wolfe Creek Crater, in recent and prehistoric times.
Development Grant: $46,000

International Art Space, Kellerberrin
Out of Site
International Art Space Kellerberrin (IASKA) was established in 1998 in a vacant shopfront in the Western Australian wheatbelt town of Kellerberrin. Out of Site is a comprehensive survey exhibition intended to document the development of IASKA over the last three years. The exhibition will include works by Australian and International artists who have participated in residencies at IASKA or exhibited there. After display in Kellerberrin, this exhibition will tour to Perth, Bunbury, Langwarrin, Sale, Darwin and Esperance.
Touring Grant: $78,850

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