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Visions of Australia - Grants round 13
Grant recipients
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Australian War Memorial
The War Memorial will tour Forging the Nation, a history exhibition about the twenty years following Federation, focussing on the establishment of a national spirit and identity including participation in World War I. The exhibition will tour to 21 regional venues in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania.
Grant: $50,003
Australian Heritage Commission
A touring exhibition comprising approximately 40 key works from more than 100 works that were selected for the prestigious Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Award exhibition. The exhibition will tour to Wagga Wagga, Adelaide, Sydney, Alice Springs and Perth.
Grant: $67,500
National Gallery of Australia
The Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Art to Aboriginal Keeping Places and Cultural Centres exhibition focusses on regional Aboriginal communities who have experienced vast changes with the impact of white settlement but are involved in projects to explore and maintain their culture. The exhibition will tour to five venues in regional South Australia, Launceston, Hobart, and Narooma in NSW.
Grant: $77,820
National Library of Australia
The Bunyips exhibition is a stimulating and entertaining look at over 200 years of bunyip lore. The exhibition will display the folklore, art and literature inspired by this unique Australian legend - one of the very few examples of Aboriginal culture that has entered white folklore. The exhibition will tour to 27 regional and metropolitan venues in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
Grant: $68,630
Screensound Australia
The project will develop for touring From Dreamtime to Prime Time, an exhibition looking at the history of indigenous representation in Australian screen drama. The exhibition will explore the changing portrayal of indigenous screen characters through photographs, film footage and promotional materials from Screensound's unique archival collections.
Grant: $39,500
NEW SOUTH WALES
Albury Regional Museum
From the Steps of Bonegilla is an exhibition that looks at the impact of the Bonegilla Migrant Reception centre on migrants to Australia who began their new life there, the people who worked there, and its significance in the development of a nation of migrants. The exhibition will tour to venues in Melbourne, Wagga Wagga, Geraldton, Eden, Casula, Brisbane and Gladstone.
Grant: $42,329
Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW
The MGFNSW will develop Rings of History: Contemporary Craft from Historical Timbers, an exhibition comprising works made from de-accessioned timber samples from the historic Dadswell Collection, held by the Australian National University Department of Forestry. A number of Australia's leading wood turners will each be given three billets of timber harvested from their State. The artists will produce a series of small works reflecting themes such as the environment, regional identity and wood crafting traditions.
Grant: $37,670
New England Regional Art Museum
Our Chinese Heritage, Our Museums is an exhibition which celebrates the contributions made by local museums and by Chinese-Australians to the history of regional areas. The exhibition will tour to venues in Wellington, Manilla, Uralla and Haymarket in NSW, and interstate to Maryborough, Bendigo, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Grant: $44,000
Tamworth City Gallery
The Tamworth City Gallery will tour the Fourteenth Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial: Frisson exhibition, encompassing the perspectives of fibre textiles which toward the end of the twentieth century have to some extent dismantled the values and hierarchies of that century. Artists have been selected from all states and territories and represent both long-standing and emerging artists. The exhibition will tour to Ararat, Darwin, Adelaide, Bathurst, Sydney, Noosa, Grafton, Toowoomba and Canberra.
Grant: $75,360
Wagga Wagga City Council
The project will develop for touring Transparent Things - an exhibition featuring a selection of 50 works from two of the most important Australian glass collections; from the National Gallery of Australia and from the national glass collection at the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery. Examining the art of glass, it will explore its diversity of forms and versatility of use, emphasising the specific quality that distinguishes glass from other artistic media, its relationship to light.
Grant: $52,300
Workers Cultural Action Group
The project will develop for touring the Last Days At Big Harry's Place - an exhibition on the working lives of the people and place of the Newcastle Steelworks through photographs taken by the workers themselves during the period from the time of the announcement to the closure of the steelworks.
Grant: $54,789
QUEENSLAND
Cairns Regional Gallery
The Cairns Regional Gallery will collaborate with the Torres Strait Cultural Festival Committee to commence development of an exhibition which will showcase the history of Thursday Island.
Grant: $4,000
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Art Gallery of South Australia
The exhibition Japan: Three Worlds comprises selected highlights from the Art Gallery of South Australia's extensive collection of Japanese art. The exhibition will tour to Newcastle, Cairns, Ipswich, Wollongong and Melbourne.
Grant: $42,000
Flinders University Art Museum
The exhibition Twenty-five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula painting follows the development of desert art from Papunya and related communities from the early seventies until the present. Areas of focus are works by artists currently painting with Papunya Tula Artists, the changing role of women artists in the region and early works from the Flinders Collection. The exhibition will tour to Alice Springs, Hamilton, Orange, Dubbo, Hobart and Toowoomba.
Grant: $39,800
VICTORIA
Australia Post
The exhibition Kangaroo and Map 1901-1913 will focus on the first image to represent the Commonwealth of Australia on a stamp, the kangaroo and the map of Australia. The image was one of the most radical images of independence developed by any colonial nation. The exhibition looks at the controversy over its design and issue, and the reaction of the British government. It also addresses the way in which cultural symbols have been used in Australian history. The exhibition will tour to regional venues in all states and territories.
Grant: $79,800
Golden Dragon Museum
The project will develop the exhibition Showing Face - Chinese Identity in Regional Victoria from 1850 to Federation, an exhibition about Chinese identity in regional Victoria as told through the stories about the Chinese who lived and died there, against the background of the social, political and economic context of the formative years of the Australian nation.
Grant: $65,000
Melbourne's Living Museum of the West
The project will develop the exhibition A Stone Upon a Stone, based around the craft of drystone walling, and the proliferation of the craft in Australia arising from Anglo-celtic and European influences and geological necessity to clear land. Extensive visual materials together with narrative storytelling and interactive experiences will tell the story.
Grant: $74,140
NETS Victoria
NETS Victoria will tour Cutting Comments: Contemporary Linocuts 1995-1998, an exhibition presenting innovative two and three-dimensional works by both established and marginal Australian contemporary artists, featuring diverse approaches to the production and display of linocut prints. The exhibition will tour to regional venues in NSW, QLD and Victoria as well as Hobart and Launceston.
Grant: $50,300
Robert O'Hara Burke Memorial Museum
Following the Fortune Hunters is an exhibition which will showcase the art and culture of the Ovens Goldfields. It will focus on the interpretation of the art works in their historical context to describe the significant people, events and cultural history of the Ovens goldfield. It will also demonstrate tangible ways for present day communities to create new objects that continue to preserve their past and present history. The exhibition will tour to Albury, Wagga Wagga, Broken Hill, Ballarat, Melbourne, Wangaratta, Cobar and Deniliquin.
Grant: $52,160
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Art Gallery of Western Australia
The exhibition Utopia: Ancient Cultures/New Forms explores the emergence of contemporary indigenous art practice in the central Australian community of Utopia. It includes silk batiks by 48 prominent Aboriginal artists and 25 paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. The exhibition will tour to Ipswich, Orange, Hobart and Cairns.
Grant: $92,760