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Arts and Culture Priority Needs Program
Arts Northern Rivers is encouraging organisations (together with service organisations and native councils), teams and people which were impacted by the flood occasions to think about making use of for the present Arts and Tradition Precedence Wants Program funding spherical.
Because of the record-breaking flooding that occurred throughout the state, Create NSW is delivering this system to help the restoration of broken arts and tradition neighborhood infrastructure property, inclusive of studio repairs, flood proofing and planning.
This system is designed to assist rebuild, get well, and help arts and cultural amenities / venues / property which can be essential to neighborhood wellbeing. Funding (requests may be between $5,000 and $500,000) is out there to help with injury, planning, design and choices for restore and rebuild, in addition to the alternative of arts and cultural infrastructure property that take into account flood mitigation methods to help future resilience.
Funding additionally covers the safety and secure retaining of works and collections to make sure arts and cultural infrastructure property will not be additional broken; and pressing small capital works on arts and cultural infrastructure property to allow artistic exercise to proceed. Functions shut 30 November. Find out more.
Callouts:
Monash Gallery of Art TOPshots
Monash Gallery of Artwork (MGA) is n inviting 2022’s VCE college students of Artwork, Media and Studio Arts, in addition to IB Visible Arts college students to submit their photographic work for consideration for subsequent yr’s TOPshots exhibition. 2023 will mark the fifteenth anniversary of this annual award and exhibition, which has been celebrating rising photomedia artists since 2008. Entries shut 4 December. Find out more.
Incinerator Gallery: Bright Sparks
The Incinerator Gallery invitations Prep to Yr 10 college students who stay, work or examine in Moonee Valley to enter their artwork or design posters into the Brilliant Sparks 2022 poster exhibition. This yr’s theme is ‘present me a hero’. College students could submit works that categorical their appreciation for a hero – actual or imagined – who has impressed and motivated them.
Brilliant Sparks is an opportunity for budding younger artists and designers to realize publicity by showcasing their works in knowledgeable gallery house. Entries shut 31 October 2022. Find out more.
SAM Open: Shepparton Art Museum’s annual open-call exhibition
SAM Open is Shepparton Artwork Museum (SAM)’s annual open-call exhibition that celebrates and showcases the creativity of the creative neighborhood throughout Higher Shepparton, the Goulburn Valley and the Hume Area. The gallery invitations native artists working in any medium, and at any expertise stage or profession stage, to submit work for inclusion in SAM Open. The chosen submissions are then exhibited collectively within the SAM Group Gallery.
The theme for the upcoming SAM Open is ‘Dwelling’, and could also be approached from a private, social, or cultural perspective. Functions shut 6 February 2023. Find out more.
Need extra? Go to our Opportunities page for extra open competitions, prizes, EOIs and name outs.
This week’s winners
Visible arts:
2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
Bruce Reynolds has been introduced because the winner of the 2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. The twenty first anniversary finalist exhibition on the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, showcases Australia’s pre-eminent prize for small sculpture, and the primary nationwide acquisitive prize for an unique sculpture of as much as 80cm, offered by Woollahra Council. Bruce Reynolds has been awarded the $25,000 award, for his work, Animal Kraters.
Sculpture by the Sea Helen Lempriere Scholarship
Indigenous artist Patricia Marrfurra McTaggart AM will obtain this yr’s $30,000 Helen Lempriere Scholarship. The Scholarships are designed to allow artists to additional their creative improvement via journey, examine and the acquisition of necessary new gear ,whereas supporting their inclusion in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, which opens this weekend.
McTaggart will exhibit a Merrepen fibre sculpture titled Fish Internet (Walipan), based mostly on nets historically used for fishing in the neighborhood of Nauiyu, located on the Daly River, one of many largest rivers within the Northern Territory. The fish nets are actually made to remind native individuals of their historical past and tradition, to show younger native girl find out how to weave and dye Merrepen fibre, and to show others about conventional indigenous tradition.
2023 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
Inneke Taal (SA), Lauren Burrow (VIC) and Sam Mountford (TAS) have been awarded a 2023 Anne & Gordon Samstag Worldwide Visible Arts Scholarship. Every artist will obtain a scholarship that gives institutional charges for one educational yr of examine, a $70,000 tax-free allowance, and journey bills to a number one worldwide artwork faculty of their alternative.
The annual scholarships allow Australian artists to develop their creative capacities and abilities outdoors Australia via a devoted interval of practice-based studying.
Calleen Art Award 2022
The winner of the Calleen Artwork Award 2022 is Canberra based mostly artist Derek O’Connor for his portray Climate Report. The Calleen Artwork Award was based in 1977 by Cowra artwork patron and collector, Mrs Patricia Fagan OAM. Since its early beginnings the Award has developed considerably and is now value $25,000 via the help of the Calleen Belief.
Brisbane Portrait Prize
Martina Clarke has received The Courier Mail’s Folks’s Selection Award for 2022 in The Brisbane Portrait Prize. Within the successful vibrant portrait, Martina Clarke has captured Greens Councillor Jonathan Sri in his trademark vibrant clothes. The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, whereas encouraging public engagement with the humanities. Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter.
Artwork supporters throughout Australia have been divided after Brisbane Portrait Prize’s controversial announcement crowning Melbourne’s Darren McDonald and his art work, ‘Like a Bridge’ as this years $50,000 Lord Mayors Prize winner. Chief Decide Dr Lisa Slade stands by what she has described as a ‘courageous’ work.
2022 First Nations Creator Program Recipients
Ten of the highest rising First Nations social media expertise are being recognised this week by Instagram and Display Australia within the second version of its profitable First Nations Creator Program. These recipients will obtain $5,000 in manufacturing funding, along with coaching classes and workshops with main First Nations creatives
The Program is an initiative in partnership between Display Australia’s First Nations division and Instagram Australia for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social media Creators, geared toward accelerating up-and-coming native expertise and amplifying various voices to assist create long-term profession prospects in social media and digital content material creation.
The ten chosen recipients of the 2022 First Nations Creator Program are:
Performing arts:
Festival Management CEO of the year
Adelaide Fringe Director and CEO, Heather Croall has been awarded the Feminine CEO of the yr within the Pageant Administration class for 2022. That is the primary time CEO Month-to-month has created an completely feminine awards class for CEOs, and can now develop into an annual occasion providing a devoted platform to recognise standout feminine leaders throughout numerous industries.
Australian National Piano Award
The primary prize has been awarded to Alex Zhang, with Paul Cheung taking out the second prize and Yasmin Rowe taking out third prize. Open to Australian and Australian-based pianists aged 21 to 35 years, the Award embodies the very best nationwide and worldwide music requirements and recognises the pursuit {of professional} excellence, technical brilliance and extraordinary aptitude. The Prize went forward this previous weekend regardless of torrential rains.
NGV’s Rigg Design Prize
A blood donation marketing campaign pushed by the ability of emotional response has been introduced because the winner of NGV’s Rigg Design Prize 2022. Leo Burnett Australia has been awarded $30,000 for his or her idea of Can creativity make you bleed? The 2022 Rigg Design Prize highlights the creativity underpinning the work of eight main Australian-based businesses.
For the exhibition, every company developed a set of marketing campaign property – together with billboards, avenue posters and shifting picture – to rejoice how creativity can form who we’re and the world we stay in. Can creativity make you bleed? exams the ability of creativity to evoke emotion and inspire motion. Spotlighting the neighborhood’s want for blood donation, every marketing campaign asset is designed to set off an emotional response – anger, pleasure, worry, or disgust – that might immediate Australians to decide to giving blood.
Now in its ninth version, the triennial Prize is Australia’s highest nationwide accolade for modern design bestowed by an Australian public gallery and seeks to profile a distinct area of design apply each three years. That is the primary exhibition of communication and promoting design within the Prize’s historical past and highlights the wealth of design expertise in these sectors.
Writing and publishing:
Silver Gull Play Award for 2022
The Silver Gull Play Award is a contest open to NSW-based writers over the age of 18 for an unpublished and unproduced unique play of 60 minutes or extra length that speaks to New Theatre’s ethos of ‘Performs With a Objective’. This yr’s winner is Xavier Coy for his play Combating, an exploration into the thoughts of 1 man as he traverses the highs and lows of Bipolar over the course of a day, and we witness his battles with each the individuals in his life and the voices in his head.
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund Recipients
In partnership with the Myer Basis, the journey fund opened in 2017 to rising, mid-career and established Australian writers and literary sector employees. This consists of writers, editors, brokers, publishers, librarians, booksellers, workers and associates of literary organisations and journals and different literary professionals at present dwelling in Australia.
The seven recipients are: poet, artist and musician Daniel Ward (VIC); author and editor Katrina Trinh (NSW); author, editor and researcher André Dao (VIC); poet, librarian and cultural employee Eunice Andrada (NSW); author, editor, arts employee and educator Hasib Hourani (VIC); music journalist and essayist Simone Jordan (NSW); novelist and brief fiction author Eugen Bacon (VIC).
2022 Varuna fellowships
The 2022 Varuna fellowships have been awarded to Lucy Nelson and Hajer Al-awsi. Awarded yearly, the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowships are for members of Writing NSW who’ve a piece that’s prepared for the following stage of improvement. Two fellowships had been accessible this yr, with one place reserved for a author beneath the age of 30. Via this initiative, the winners will obtain a week-long residency at Varuna, the National Writers’ House, and the runners up will obtain a ebook pack from Hachette Australia and the chance to submit their manuscript to Hachette for evaluation.
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