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 July 2023 round will share in more than $990,000, with funding supporting activities that are expected to employ more than 590 artists and arts workers.
Fifty grants have been recommended, spanning the art form areas of performing arts, literature, and visual art, craft and design.
Funded activity includes support for Australian Dance Theatre to tour its recent First Nations-led work Tracker to New South Wales in 2024, and for Floating Goose Studios to support its 2024 gallery exhibition program.
Funding will also assist Brink Productions to partner with Tutti Arts to deliver FINAL FRONTIER, a series of concept development workshops over a 15-month period that will engage more than 200 artists with and without disability in the creation of a festival work of scale.
Grant applications were assessed against published criteria by sector representatives with specialist art form, arts practice, arts management, and cultural expertise.
Further information about each grant category and recipients is available in the full list of recipients below.
The October 2023 round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program is currently open, with applications closing 9 October 2023.
| Grant | Artform | Applicant | Project | Amount approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants - Professional Development | Performing Arts | Adelaide Fringe Festival | ATSI Arts Admin Traineeship - Emerging Arts Workers | $10,000 |
| Ms Belinda McKeown | 6-month studio residency and mentorship at the Mill, Adelaide | $10,000 | ||
| Miss Kyarna Cruse | Kaurna Networking | $4,600 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Ms Rebecca Gough | Mentorship Rebecca Gough / Kerryn Levy | $5,865 | |
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Ku Arts | Ngapala Arts Regeneration Project | $25,000 | |
| Ms Anna Dowling | Nourish Me | $24,002 | ||
| Mrs Patricia Ingram | Widen Wil Ba Burunj Direl | $9,000 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Development: Professional Development | Literature | Ms Susan Murphy | Historical Fiction Novel Project | $9,743 |
| Performing Arts | Mr Sam Hall | Mentorship and Workshops in Europe | $9,282 | |
| Mr Duncan Graham | SPEAK NO SOUND | $9,100 | ||
| Ms Ashton Malcolm | Force Majeure INCITE Intensive | $4,538 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Ms Alise Hardy | Career development, mentorship and capacity building with Georgia Close (NGA) and Lilly Blue (AGWA) | $13,984 | |
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Development: Market Development | Literature | Mr Darren Koziol | Dark Oz to Brisbane Supanova | $4,670 |
| Performing Arts | Brink Productions | New Website Build - www.brinkproductions.com | $15,000 | |
| Ms Kathryn Hall | Sheltered - Melbourne Fringe Tour | $11,407 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Mr Christian Lock | Market Development New Work Los Angeles - Christian Lock | $12,240 | |
| Post Office Projects Incorporated | 2024 POP x ACE Visiting Curators Program | $9,014 | ||
| Mrs Alycia Bennett | Transport costs for work to be including in the Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change Exhibition | $1,463 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Projects: Independent Artists and Groups | Literature | Mr Ross Morgan | Picture Book ‘The Diver, The Chicken and The Fox’ | $18,000 |
| Jennifer Mills | The Endeavour final draft | $17,006 | ||
| Dr Rachael Mead | The Amazoniad | $13,361 | ||
| Dr Carol Lefevre | Late in the Day: Essays and Conversations on Ageing | $10,000 | ||
| Mrs Beverley McWilliams | Travel to rural Thailand as research for third middle-grade novel | $4,842 | ||
| Performing Arts | Ms Rebecca Meston | Presentation of ‘Hits of the 70s, 80s & 90s’ at the Space Theatre | $48,489 | |
| Silk Strings | 2024 Silk Strings New Commissions and Performance | $27,902 | ||
| Adelaide Baroque Incorporated | Old Worlds and New | $23,798 | ||
| Kinetik Collective | My Hair is Thinning- Project Development | $20,808 | ||
| Mrs Celia Craig | Songs Without Words- Tarrawatta Trio regional Residency project | $18,412 | ||
| Ade Suharto & Alison Currie | Maintain, Rest, Value | $14,900 | ||
| Madness of Two | Snow Daughter, Fire Son - First Development | $12,655 | ||
| Ms Miriam Crellin | Release and live launch of song cycle and album “All Our Little Boxes” | $9,910 | ||
| Mr Hew Parham | Mr Lucky | $9,667 | ||
| Mr Michael Hill | Mallee Ward | $6,650 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Floating Goose Studios | Floating Goose Studios Inc. Artist Fees 2024 Exhibition Program | $26,400 | |
| Dr CJ Taylor | Flashover - new work project development | $16,838 | ||
| Ms Kirsten Coelho | Research and development of new work | $13,709 | ||
| Jude Adams and Catherine Speck Curatorial Team | Politics, Posters and PAM | $11,860 | ||
| Ms Rita Kellaway | New work for first major solo exhibition | $10,788 | ||
| Ms Jennifer Mathews | Sculptural installation for ACE Studios: 2023 | $5,992 | ||
| Miss Caitlin Bowe | 2023 HIDDEN Rookwood | $1,342 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Projects: Community | Literature | Writers SA | Deaf Writers Commissions | $36,000 |
| Performing Arts | Open Space Contemporary Arts Inc | Rethinking Participation 23/24 | $40,000 | |
| ActNow Theatre Incorporated | Rough House Creative Development - Phase 2 | $39,941 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Projects: Public Arts and Design | Visual Art, Craft and Design | City of Onkaparinga | New Storybook Walk Sculpture – Frog Finds a Place | $15,000 |
| LoveWoodside | SA Water tank mural, Ridge Road, Woodside | $6,000 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Projects: Touring Support | Performing Arts | Australian Dance Theatre | 2024 ‘Tracker’ New South Wales Tour | $45,670 |
| Patch Theatre Company Incorporated | Patch Theatre Zooom Tour to Hong Kong & Singapore | $44,722 | ||
| Slingsby Theatre Company Limited | Ireland Tour - The Boy Who Talked to Dogs | $40,000 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Major Projects: Collaboration | Performing Arts | Brink Productions | Final Frontier - Concept Development Workshops | $100,000 |
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Ms Ray Harris | Neoteric (WT) | $99,670 |