Congratulations to the South Australian artists and arts organisations who have secured funding in the latest round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program.
Recipients of the February 2024 round will share in more than $1.1 million, with funding supporting activities that are expected to employ more than 570 artists and arts workers.
Fifty-eight grants have been recommended, spanning the art form areas of performing arts, literature, and visual art, craft and design.
Funded activity includes support for Beacon Studios to develop a new work, GNOSIS, which fuses holographic technology with contemporary dance and is set to premiere as part of the 2025 Illuminate Adelaide Festival.
Funding will also assist Piri Eddy to complete the first draft of manuscript Coastlines, a literary climate fiction novel set in a degrading Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Love Woodside community group to create a mural on the SA Water tank and utility building on Ridge Road in Woodside.
Grant applications were assessed against published criteria by sector representatives with specialist art form, arts practice, arts management, and cultural expertise.
Information about each grant category and recipients is available in the full list of recipients below.
The next round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program will open on Monday 20 May 2024.
| Grant | Artform | Applicant | Project | Amount approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants – Professional Development | Other | Adelaide Fringe | ATSI Arts Traineeship 24/25 | $10,000 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants – Projects | Music | Balya Productions | Yabaardu 2024 | $25,000 |
| Soundstream New Music | Pukatja Community (SA) members to join their family in the Inarma Womens’ Choir (SA/NT), sharing culture and singing in language, keeping culture strong. | $14,991 | ||
| Visual Arts | Ku Arts | ELEVATE - Community Connections | $25,000 | |
Iwiri Aboriginal Corporation | Kuruntu Walkatjunanyi: Painting from the heart | $25,000 | ||
| Adelaide Contemporary Experimental | Lartelare by the Kaurna Women's Art Collective | $24,948 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Development: Professional Development | Literature | Sarah Bown | Professional development in support of manuscript Second Nature | $3,440 |
| Performing Arts | Annabel Matheson | Professional Development in Directing and Leading the creative room | $14,293 | |
| Adam Lutley | Investigating How to Play the Jazz Organ.. Shining a Light on the Hammond Organ | $10,000 | ||
| Yoz Mensch | L'ecole Gaulier Summer Masterclass | $8,057 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Kate O'Boyle | 10 week residency and research project | $15,000 | |
| Emmaline Zanelli | Into the Dark: Colour chemistry within a multi-disciplinary photography practice | $14,993 | ||
| Jorji Gardener | Jardin Botanique Residency | $14,183 | ||
| Tom Summers | Pottery Workshop Residency in Jingdezhen, China | $8,453 | ||
| Asha Southcombe | Arts Itoya Residency | $6,391 | ||
Jianzhen Wu | Hot Shop Building Blocks Workshop | $5,541 | ||
| Amber Cronin | PADA (Portugal) Artist In Residence + Research Program | $5,470 | ||
| Alexandra Hirst | Glass Art Society Conference | $5,204 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Development: Market Development | Performing Arts | Windmill Theatre Co | Near Neighbour Strategy - market development project | $15,000 |
| Australian Dance Theatre | Reconceptualising ADT's touring framework | $12,960 | ||
| Motus Collective | Motus Collective market development | $12,251 | ||
| Patch Theatre Company | International Market Attendance 2024 | $10,595 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Projects: Independent Artists and Groups | Literature | Allayne Webster | Parent Club | $20,000 |
| Aimee Knight | Heart of Felt: How Jim Henson’s Muppets Taught Me to Be a Person | $18,394 | ||
| Piri Eddy | Coastlines | $13,584 | ||
| Colin Varney | The Comeback of Jack Pann | $12,600 | ||
| Georgina Chadderton | Completing 'Oh Brother' graphic novel | $10,000 | ||
| Performing Arts | Amplified House | Simply BRILL - Australia Tour 2024 | $44,500 | |
| Theatre Republic | The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver, presented by Theatre Republic | $42,862 | ||
| Lina Limosani | Design, Build and Realisation of costume and props’ phase. | $34,634 | ||
| Samuel Lau | Bang On The Nerve - A Modern Asian-Australian Adaptation | $32,657 | ||
| The Bowerbird Collective | The Bowerbird Collective - On tour in the USA | $32,000 | ||
| South Australian Playwrights Theatre | An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Hugs | $31,572 | ||
| Kirsty Martinsen | Bodiness: hands like wings inSPACE | $29,966 | ||
| Michelle Pearson | Skinny - Project Development for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival | $20,805 | ||
| Wattleseed Ensemble | Homecoming: Site and Sound Intertwined | $17,759 | ||
| Valerie Berry | Island Project | $12,954 | ||
| Alison Currie | Alison Currie's participation in the 2nd development of 'Multi-solo' co-directed by Alison & Alisdair Macindoe | $11,765 | ||
| Gabriella Smart | Gabriella Smart to travel to Europe in May 2024 for a Creative Development and the world premiere of a new work. | $9,716 | ||
| The Kegelstatt Ensemble | Creative Development: Workshop of the Times | $4,627 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Unbound Collective | Sovereign Acts/ Love Praxis | $20,407 | |
| Chelsea Farquhar | 2024 Collection | $13,020 | ||
| Aldo Iacobelli | Solo presentation at ArteSantander fair Spain 2024 | $13,000 | ||
| Caren Elliss | Research, Experimentation and Development of New Work | $12,828 | ||
| Carly Snoswell | Development of a new body of work for Radical Textiles at AGSA | $12,244 | ||
| Henry Wolff | New work for solo exhibition | $11,848 | ||
| Deirdre Feeney | Image Light | $11,083 | ||
| Jingwei Bu | Hammered (working title) | $11,000 | ||
| Tom Keukenmeester | Catalonia: Residency and new work development | $10,465 | ||
| Kristel Adele Britcher | New work for exhibition | $9,910 | ||
| Danny Jarratt | Temporal Crash | $8,358 | ||
| Floating Goose Studios | Golden Goose 10th Anniversary Project | $8,000 | ||
Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Projects: Community | Performing Arts | Open Space Contemporary Arts | Opal Evolution - stage 2 | $40,000 |
Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Projects: Public Art and Design | Visual Art, Craft and Design | LoveWoodside | SA Water tank mural, Ridge Road, Woodside | $15,000 |
| Adelaide Film Festival | 2024 Reflective Screen | $14,950 | ||
Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Projects: Touring Support | Performing Arts | Gravity & Other Myths | Australian Masterclass and Presentation Tour | $49,985 |
| Lewis Major Projects | Little Murmur and Triple Bill National and International Tour | $42,375 | ||
Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations – Major Projects: Triennial | Performing Arts | Beacon Studios | GNOSIS | $120,000 |