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 October 2023 round will share in more than $1.4 million, with funding supporting activities that are expected to employ more than 625 artists and arts workers.
Fifty- two grants have been recommended, spanning the art form areas of performing arts, literature, and visual art, craft and design.
Funded activity includes art making and presentation in a range of contexts, including projects of scale through Major Projects categories. Touring, market development and professional development outcomes have also been supported.
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 February 2024 round of the Arts and Culture Grants program will open on 20 December 2023 and close on 5 February 2024.
| Grant | Artform | Applicant | Project | Amount approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performing Arts | Wiri Miya Aboriginal Corporation | Gynburra '24 | $25,000 | |
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Ceduna Aboriginal Corporation: Ceduna Arts and Culture | Aboriginal meet Sami | $24,980 | |
| Tanya Singer and Errol Evans | Touring Kurunpa Kunpu | Strong Spirit | $24,643 | ||
| Christopher and Dylan Crismani | Developing a new sonambient sculpture for the Mulka Yata exhibition | $22,796 | ||
| Iwiri Aboriginal Corporation | Hand-building Our Stories through Clay | $12,581 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Development: Professional Development | Performing Arts | Alysha Herrmann | Alysha Herrmann Professional Development - shadowing Ruth MacKenzie (Adelaide Festival) and Andy Packer (Slingsby) - arts leadership, festival thinking and where to next | $14,637 |
| Emily Tulloch | Development of professional networks 2024 | $11,020 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Joshua Juett | Spelunking The Subconscious | $14,160 | |
| Heidi Kenyon | Mentorship with Canadian artist WhiteFeather Hunter | $7,660 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Development: Market Development | Performing Arts | Ross McHenry | Waves album release market development support | $14,329 |
| Ian Boyd | StorySnorts Advertising Video | $13,050 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Adelaide Contemporary Experimental | ACE International Curators Exchange | $15,000 | |
| Tutti Arts | Tutti Arts Website Upgrade | $15,000 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Development: Fellowships | Literature | Eva Hornung | The Minstrels (working title) | $50,000 |
| Heather Taylor Johnson | Body Mirror, essay collection | $50,000 | ||
| Performing Arts | Jesse Budel | Jesse Budel Fellowship: Building a Higher Order Ambisonic Studio Practice | $50,000 | |
| Emma Beech | TAKING TIME AND SPACE: EXPLORING, DISCOVERING, EMBRACING AND SHARING SUSTAINABLE ARTS PRACTICE | $50,000 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Allison Chhorn | Arts SA Fellowship - Allison Chhorn | $48,733 | |
| Louise Haselton | Junior burger, dinosaur, figurehead, flame | $50,000 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Projects: Independent Artists and Groups | Literature | Aud Mason-Hyde | DREAMLIFE | $19,250 |
| Owen Heitmann | Amplified Press 2024 national event attendance | $14,972 | ||
| Jason Pamment | Ember Book 2 | $10,000 | ||
| Alicia Carter | Songs at the End, A Novel | $8,520 | ||
| Helen Hutton | Olga: A verse novel | $5,650 | ||
| Performing Arts | Madness of Two | Starweaver | $48,555 | |
| Wildhouse Circus | The BOSS SQUAD Project – Wildhouse Circus collaboration with South Australian Circus Centre/Cirkidz | $47,066 | ||
| Felicity Boyd | The Leftovers | $43,397 | ||
| Adelaide Baroque | An Ungrateful Instrument | $33,057 | ||
| Erin Fowler | 2nd stage development of FAFF by Erin Fowler Movement | $28,943 | ||
| Dance Hub South Australia | Choreolab24 | $25,751 | ||
| Astrid Pill | I Hide In Bathrooms AF2024 Season | $24,718 | ||
| Peter Beaglehole | The Tumour Show: Presenting The Joy of the Horror of Being | $19,139 | ||
| Sarah Neville | Agile Mobilities | $4,160 | ||
| Belinda Gehlert | "Diving the Wreck" for Symphony Orchestra | $4,000 | ||
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Patrice Sharkey | Octopus 2024 for Gertrude Contemporary, curated by Patrice Sharkey | $20,756 | |
| Amos Gebhardt | Mangata | $18,500 | ||
| VNS Matrix | Participation of South Australian cyberfeminist art group VNS Matrix in the 24th Biennale of Sydney 2024 | $17,865 | ||
| Samantha Gold | The Minerals: Residency, mentorship and a solo presentation of a new body of work | $14,966 | ||
| Anika Gardner | Rock Prosthesis | $13,737 | ||
| Julia Robinson | New work for solo exhibition in 2024 | $13,220 | ||
| Eleanor Amor | New exhibition work | $12,504 | ||
| Teresa Busuttil | Development and delivery of new work for West Space 2024 | $10,623 | ||
| Anna Horne | Production of new artwork by Anna Horne | $6,463 | ||
| Cassie Thring | Goodbye Toki Hello | $5,573 | ||
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Projects: Public Arts and Design | Visual Art, Craft and Design | Southend Progress Association | Alberto's Dream (working title) | $15,000 |
| Open Space Contemporary Arts | Front Yard Slide Shows – stage 2 / Billboards | $15,000 | ||
| Performing Arts | Windmill Theatre Co | Grug - SA Regional Tour | $45,000 | |
| Grants for Individuals, Groups, Organisations - Major Projects: Collaboration | Performing Arts | Gravity & Other Myths | Ten Thousand Hours - Final Development | $100,000 |
| Insite Arts | Logan Street | $100,000 | ||
| Literature | Writers SA | The Tarntanya Review | $100,000 | |
| Visual Art, Craft and Design | Open Space Contemporary Arts | Projects of the Everyday - Stage 2 | $100,000 |