VISIONS OF AUSTRALIA FUNDING ROUND 35
New South Wales
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Women With Clever Hands: Gapuwiyak Miyalkurruwurr Gong Djambitjmala
Touring Funding: $75,397
Women With Clever Hands which features baskets, mats, bags, sculpture and body
wear is the result of a collaborative exchange between the curator, Dr Louise Hamby
and the Indigenous women from Gapuwiyak in northeast Arnhem Land, with whom
she has worked for over 15 years. The exhibition represents a deep understanding
of Yolngu culture and traditions and aspires to encourage younger women to
become involved in fibre practice as a means of artistic, economic and cultural
growth.
The exhibition will tour to four venues in the Australian Capital Territory, New South
Wales, South Australia and Victoria.
Powerhouse Museum
The Odditoreum
Touring Funding: $104,834
The Odditoreum is an exhibition designed for children and their families based on the
successful collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and Australian artist
Shaun Tan, the award winning children's author and illustrator who created
fantastical stories behind 11 especially unusual and odd museum objects. The
exhibition presents this contemporary ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and mirrors the
Museum's diverse collection and experimentation with ways of engaging visitors and
their imagination.
The exhibition will tour to five venues throughout New South Wales, Western
Australia and Queensland.
Victoria
National Exhibitions Touring Support Victoria
Dreamweavers
Touring Funding: $82,247
Dreamweavers explores the relationship between art and the subconscious through
the work of four Australian and two international surrealist artists. The overarching
curatorial rationale is to investigate contemporary neo-Surrealist concerns, and the
contemporary interest in the Gothic—recalling horror films as well as film noir,
mysticism, spiritualism and the occult. The highly theatrical and captivating
presentation of the exhibition is designed to be accessible for audiences of all ages.
The exhibition will tour to seven venues throughout New South Wales, Victoria,
Tasmania and Queensland.
State Library of Victoria
Look! The art of Australian picture books today
Touring Funding: $120,235
Look! The art of Australian picture books today has been developed specifically for
children and families and explores the real and imagined worlds of the child as told
through the art of contemporary children’s book illustration in Australia today.
Sketches, drafts, mock-ups and finished artwork will be on display to uncover the
creative processes behind this visual mode of storytelling. The exhibition also
focuses, explores and highlights the diversity of illustration styles and artworks
produced by some of Australia’s most accomplished children’s book illustrators.
The exhibition will tour to six venues throughout New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
Museum Victoria
Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic
Touring Funding: $140,500
Developed in collaboration with the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Ancestral Power and
Aesthetic features works from central and eastern Arnhem Land collected by
Professor Donald Thomson in the mid-1930s to 1942. The collection is the earliest
and most comprehensive bark work series from the region. The exhibition
showcases 20 of the finest paintings from the Thomson Collection together with key
objects like men’s sacred baskets painted with the sacred clan designs.
The exhibition will tour to six venues throughout New South Wales, Victoria,
Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
Queensland
Artisan—idea: skill: product
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: 100 Years, 100 Women, 100 Stories, 100
Brooches
Development Funding: $71,037
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor is being developed in homage to the 2011 centenary of
International Women's Day. It will feature 100 stories of great Australian women who
have broken the barriers in the arts, sciences, humanities and sport, and 100
brooches made in response to these stories by 100 of Australia's most well-known
women jewellers. The exhibition aims to generate pride in the milestones achieved
by women in the past and also provide inspiration for future generations of women.
Australian Capital Territory
National Museum of Australia
Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu
Touring Funding: $93,320
The exhibition Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu is the result of collaboration
between the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the Marika family
from Yirrkala. The exhibition explores the complex relationship between people, their
ancestral mythology and land ownership through 60 artworks illustrating many of the
fifty named sites at Yalangbara. The exhibition also aims to educate non-Indigenous
people about the complex cultural and environmental significance of the land to
Indigenous ancestral clans.
The exhibition will tour to two venues in the Northern Territory and Western
Australia.
National Portrait Gallery
Jenny Sages: Paths to Portraiture
Touring Funding: $101,100
Paths to Portraiture explores the process of portrait making through works by Jenny
Sages. and the exhibition includes drawings that the artist made in preparation for
the works. Subjects of the large portraits include artist Emily Kngwarreye, author
Helen Garner, prima ballerina Irina Baronova and the artist herself. The exhibition
draws from the National Portrait Gallery and Tweed River Art Gallery and also
includes works from the artist’s own collection.
The exhibition will tour to five venues throughout Queensland, Tasmania and New
South Wales.
South Australia
Flinders University Art Museum
Lines of Engagement
Development Funding: $56,750
Lines of Engagement will explore the influence of Australian Aboriginal culture on
recent non-Indigenous Australian visual art and craft. The core of the exhibition will
comprise art and craftworks produced from the 1980s until the present day by nonIndigenous artists whose lives have involved significant interactions with Aboriginal
people and their communities. Documentary material including photographs,
literature and multimedia will be presented alongside Aboriginal art and artefacts to
help illuminate contexts of production and sources of inspiration.
Northern Territory
Artback NT Arts Touring Inc
Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrula
Development Funding: $68,660
Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrula will be the first major survey exhibition of desert
artist Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrula (c1924-2006) and will trace her development
as a highly original artist during her 20 years of practice. The aim of the exhibition is
to emphasise the artist’s importance within the Lajamanu region and to position her
within the broader framework of the western desert art movement. Yulyurlu Lorna
Fencer Napurrula achieved considerable national acclaim during her lifetime after
she first began painting on canvas in 1986 at the Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu,
and an appraisal of the historical and artistic significance of her work is timely.