Congratulations to the successful South Australian artists who have secured funding under the latest round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program.
Recipients of the October 2022 round will share in more than $1.7 million, with funding to support activity that is expected to employ more than 620 artists and arts workers.
Grants were recommended for more than 60 applications across a range of art making, presentation and touring, market development and skills development initiatives.
Funded activity includes support for established ceramic artist, Honor Freeman, to undertake twelve months of intensive studio practice and research, and to artist collective COLLECT for Bárbaros, anew contemporary dance work developed through a multi-disciplinary collaboration led by choreographer, Lina Limosani, visual artist, Thom Buchanan, and author, Sean Williams.
For the first time, a new category was offered for Major Projects – Biennial Project, which saw three applications recommended, including Gray Street Workshop for the development, making and documentation of new work for a major exhibition in 2025 to celebrate the studio’s 40th anniversary.
Funding will also see the development of a new theatre work by No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability exploring the experience of returned veterans, and a new song cycle commissioned by Adelaide Chamber Singers in collaboration with poet and author, Kate Llewellyn, and composer, Anne Cawrse.
Six fellowship grants were also recommended for a range of art form practice, doubling the number of fellowships awarded in 2021.
Applications were assessed against published criteria by sector representatives, and the funding will support professional South Australian artists and arts organisations, spanning literature, visual art, craft and design and performing arts.
Further information about each grant category and recipients is available in the full list of recipients below.
The February 2023 round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program is currently open, with applications closing 6 February 2023.
Pictured clockwise from left: COLLECT, Bárbaros, second development performance, 2022, photo: Felicity Arts; Catherine Truman, Shared Reckonings, 2020, photo: Grant Hancock; Honor Freeman, and the tide rises, the tide falls, 2022, photo: Sam Roberts.
October 2022 Arts and Culture Grants
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants
Projects
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Uninypa - Inside Out- Women's Prison Project
- APY Art Centre Collective Aboriginal Corporation - Kulata Tjuta - Tirkilpa
- ACE Open - a river that flows both ways: First Nations curator
- Christina Gollan - Development of New Work in Ceramics
Performing Arts
- Adelaide Festival Centre Trust - Language Projects at AFC in 2023
Learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants: Projects
Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations
Development: Professional Development
Performing Arts
- Jamie Harding - BEYOND (Mentorship)
- Jesse Budel - WFAE 2023 International Conference + San Francisco PD Tour
- Clementine Benson - A structured program of overseas professional development
- Noriko Tadano - Yasha’s Lullaby - Script Development
- Penny Bonney - First Nations Cultural Advisor to Fringe Mount Gambier
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Kate O’Boyle - Mentorship
- Sally Craven - International Artist Residency at GlogauAIR in Berlin
- Kate Bohunnis - International Professional Development Program
Development: Market Development
Performing Arts
- Restless Dance Theatre - Building a Restless Global Audience
- Connecting the Dots in Music - An invitation to Carnegie Hall, New York: Collaborations, co-design, research and performance partnerships to expand Lullaby Project Australia & Music For All Project: The Nest.
- Access2Arts - Culture Club - Blind Focus
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Fine Print Magazine - fine print magazine website redevelopment
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Development: Market Development
Development: Fellowships
Literature
- RoyceKurmelovs - How The Fossil Fuel Industry Came To Dominate Everything
Performing Arts
- Phillip Kavanagh - Surrealism and Collaboration
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Honor Freeman - Ordinary Alchemy: a year of ceramic research, experimentation and development
- Bridget Currie - creating embodied experiences in the visual arts
- Monika Morgenstern - Colour as a Mystical Material
- Daniel Connell - Encounter and Obligation: building global networks
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Fellowships
Projects: Independent Artists and Groups
Literature
- Molly Murn - Radiance: a state of being
- Alison Flett - First draft of a memoir
- Katerina Bryant - Writing ‘Queen Pawn’
- Owen Heitmann - Papercuts Comics Festival 2023
Performing Arts
- Katherine Sortini - All The Things I Could’'t Say
- Garry Stewart - Rituals of Memory
- Tim Overton - Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
- The Sisters of Invention - The Sisters of Invention - Perth International Cabaret Festival 2023
- Theatre Republic - Theatre Republic presents Future:Present 2.0
- Miriam Crellin - Development, Performance and Recording of a 9-part Song Cycle for Voice, String Quartet and Jazz Quartet
- The Fish Bowl - The Fish Bowl: Development of a tour-ready package for Adelaide Fringe 2023
- Dylan Crismani - Refining the design of the Electric Cristals
- Mo-Ko Piano & Circus - Oat Milk & Honey
- Emma Beech - Here We Are - Residency Project
- Motus Collective - The Leftovers
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Fine Print Magazine - fine print magazine 2023 program
- Susan Frost - The investigation of colour and building a sustainable practice
- Jennifer Mathews - Creation of solo exhibitions in Sydney and Canberra
- Jess Dare - With a handful of flowers... A major solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki, Victoria
- Janice Vitkovsky - New work for exhibition Feb 2024
- The Bait Fridge - The Bait Fridge ROCKAMORA IV performance
- Louise Haselton - Studio Research and Development
- Truc Truong - Everything is cake
- Kate Kurucz - Haza: funding for new solo exhibition
- Zoe Freney - Work From Home
- Relics and Ruins - Relics and Ruins
- Jessica Murtagh - Solo exhibition (currently untitled)
- Roy Ananda - Development and presentation of new work as a solo exhibition at Post Office Projects
- Anna Horne - Anna Horne production of new sculpture work
- Alice Castello - Development of an exhibition at Post Office Projects in 2023
Projects: Touring Support
Performing Arts
- Patch Theatre Company - ZOOOM SA regional tour 2023
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Projects: Touring Support
Major Projects: Biennial Project
Performing Arts
- Astrid Pill - Widow Weirdo by Astrid Pill - creative development and rehearsals
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Gray Street Workshop - The presence of time – Gray Street Workshop celebrates 40 years
- Post Office Projects - POP 2023 & 2024 Exhibition Program
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Major Projects: Biennial
Major Projects: Triennial Project
Performing Arts
- Flying Penguin Productions - Unforgivable
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Major Projects: Triennial
Major Projects: Collaboration
Performing Arts
- Adelaide Chamber Singers - The rhapsody of nature (working title)
- No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability - My War
Visual Art, Craft and Design
- Adelaide Film Festival - 2023 EXPAND Lab: development & commissions for Australia's next generation of moving image artists
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Major Projects: Collaboration
Major Projects: Major Commission
Performing Arts
- COLLECT - Barbaros - Final Development & Presentation
Learn more about Grants for Individuals, Groups and Organisations: Major Projects: Major Commission