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19th grant round

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Australian War Memorial

Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war brings a very personal perspective to this aspect of Australians at war. The exhibition offers an evocative and realistic insight into the Australian prisoner-of-war experience: harsh, brutal, sometimes tragic, but also moving and inspiring. More than 34 000 Australian have been prisoners of war, as many as 8000 died in captivity.

This exhibition will tour to 11 venues in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Venues include Orange, Shepparton, Launceston and Hervey Bay.

Touring grant: $57 173

National Archives of Australia

Unexpected Archives with Robyn Archer presents a fresh perspective on theatre and entertainment in the early 20th century. The exhibition tells the audience as much about changes in popular culture and the performing arts industry as it reveals about Robyn Archer’s personal and professional experience. In a humorous yet insightful manner Robyn uses relics of the entertainment industry to celebrate the achievements of performing artists, to illustrate difficulties of professional practice such as copyright and to highlight the political nature of entertainment.

This exhibition will tour to 30 venues in the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. Venues include Katherine, Mount Isa, Echuca, Bathurst and Port Pirie.

Touring grant: $30 546

NEW SOUTH WALES

Dubbo Regional Gallery

Valamanesh show (working title)—an installation by two Australian artists drawing on influences from Australian Aboriginal, Iranian and ancient Persian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese cultures together with the Australian landscape in which they now work. The essential theme is unity in

diversity, the commonality of the visual language across cultural boundaries and the influence that we have on each other, living in Australia today.

Development grant: $35 335

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Limited

MCA Unpacked II presents works from the MCA collections in thematic selections by six Australian artists who represent a range of different practices and are at different stages in their careers. Bruce Armstrong, Julie Dowling, Joan Grounds, Michelle Nikou, Ken Unsworth and William Yang will bring their particular artistic vision to ‘unpack’ works from the MCA’s significant collections of contemporary art in a stimulating and engaging way.

This exhibition will tour to ten venues in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. Venues include Bendigo, Grafton, Caloundra, Underdale and Burnie

Touring grant: $50 000

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Art Gallery of South Australia

Australian Surrealism: The James Agapitos & Ray Wilson Collection will examine one of the most dynamic and diverse art movements of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of André Breton, André Masson and their fellow European Surrealists—Australian artists in the 1930s and 1940s examined their own culture through a similar lens, producing distinctive results. Comprising paintings and works on paper from the most extensive and impressive collection of such material in the country, the exhibition features the work of many of Australia’s best known artists including: James Cant, Dora Chapman, Russell Drysdale, Max Dupain, Adrien Feint, Ivor Francis, Donald Friend, James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Joy Hester, Dusan Marek, Sidney Nolan, Douglas Roberts, Peter Purves Smith, Jeffrey Smart, Eric Thake and Albert Tucker.

This exhibition will tour to five venues in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. Venues include Armidale, Hobart and Red Hill.

Touring grant: $50 000

Art Gallery of South Australia

The Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Retrospective (working title) is the first major retrospective of the work of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, a nationally and internationally renowned Aboriginal artist. He was pivotal to the development of the Papunya Tula art movement and was its most awarded, prolific and well-known exponent. The exhibition will be one of national significance.

This exhibition will tour to four venues in Victoria, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Venues include Alice Springs and South Brisbane.

Touring grant: $37 500

Pitjantjatjara Council Inc.

Ara Iritija: protecting the past, accessing the future—Indigenous memories in a digital age

This exhibition examines the way Anangu (Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people) are using digitally-based IT to protect and secure their past. Focusing on the work of the Ara Iritija Archival Project, the exhibition details how materials of historical significance—previously inaccessible to Anangu—are tracked down, copied and digitally returned to communities living in remote parts of Central Australia. This includes unearthing early film and sound recordings, rare photographs, explorer’s journals and memories of first and early contact.

This exhibition will tour to 13 venues in South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Victoria. Venues include Roxby Downs, Wudinna, Alice Springs and Melbourne.

Touring grant: $86 568

TASMANIA

Hobart City Council

The Dark Woods is an exhibition surveying current production by young Australian artists whose work culminates in publication though the genre of alternative comics. This genre articulates the concerns of youth and explores issues such as identity, being young and trying to find a place in the world.

Development grant: $11 913

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque will present a full account of the life and work of the Anglo-colonial artist John Glover (1767–1849). Glover was the first substantial, professional painter to migrate to the Australian colonies and his Tasmanian pictures are of primary importance in the development of Australian landscape painting. The exhibition will present the best of these works together for the first time in a generation; moreover, it will contextualise their achievement in the light of Glover’s earlier and highly successful English career and of British paining in general.

This exhibition will tour to four venues in Tasmania, Adelaide, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. Venues include Adelaide, Canberra and Melbourne.

Touring grant: $55 000

VICTORIA

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

Australian Naïve Art (working title)—from the 1970s to the present day is the theme of this exhibition. The exhibition will introduce a popular and enduring art form to new audiences around the country and will be the first known touring exhibition of Australian naïve art.

Development grant: $19 364

Experimenta Media Arts Inc.

House of Tomorrow comprises a curated selection of interactive and digital media artworks that specifically embrace ideas of our domestic future. Imagine living with interactive furniture and appliances, digital artworks on the walls, virtual babies in the cot and even digitally improved plants and robotic pets, all installed in a realistic home environment. In this exhibition, the very familiar trappings of the home are transformed into an immersive media based environment, designed for audiences to explore creative applications of the latest developments in technology via an accessible and relevant thematic.

Development grant: $65 000

National Gallery of Victoria

Fred Williams: The Pilbara Series will highlight the unique contribution Fred Williams made to the great tradition of landscape painting within Australia. Fred Williams visited the Pilbara region of north-west Australia on two occasions in 1979. As a result of these trips he produced a series of oil paintings and gouaches, referred to as the Pilbara Series, which demonstrates his distinctive vision of the Australian landscape. The exhibition is a selection of important and very high quality works from the series.

This exhibition will tour to five venues in Western Australia, Alice Springs, Victoria and New South Wales. Venues include Geraldton, Alice Springs, Mildura and Albury.

Touring grant: $74 058

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Howard Taylor PHENOMENA —Howard Taylor is acknowledged as one of the most significant Australian artists of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition will bring together work from all phases of his career. The principle emphasis will focus on work from the 1980s and 1990s. The dominant themes from this period: ‘light and space’, ‘forest figures’, ‘landscape colonnades’, ‘natural phenomena’ and ‘forest regeneration’ will guide this exploration of his work and trace the origins of these motifs from their earliest articulations between the 1950s and the 1970s.

This exhibition will tour to nine venues in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. Venues include Cairns, Hamilton, Bunbury and Armidale.

Touring grant: $102 613

Fremantle Prison

From Fremantle to Freedom—the Catalpa Escape is based on the story of the Irish Fenians transported to Fremantle in 1868. It also follows the successful escape of their leader, John Boyle O’Reilly a year later, and the remaining Fenians in 1876 on board the American whaler Catalpa. The Fenians were amongst the last convicts to be sent to Western Australia and their arrival signaled the end of the convict era in Australia. As well as tracing the story from Ireland, to Australia, to the United States, the exhibition will examine convict life in Australia’s last convict prison.

Development grant: $48 780

IASKA International Art Kellerberrin Australia

From Space to Place is an exhibition featuring new works by 12 young and emerging artists from across Australia. The curatorial rationale focuses on the relationship between notions of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in the context of the deep social and cultural changes brought about by globalisation.

Development grant: $27 590

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