$33,000 for emerging South Australian artists
June 11th 2010 00:49
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Helpmann Academy
More than $33,000 to assist emerging South Australian artists
The Helpmann Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts has announced its first round of competitive grants for 2010, awarding more than $33,000 to fourteen individual projects by emerging artists from a wide range of creative disciplines.
A significant number of these grants provide funding towards professional development projects interstate or overseas. This type of international engagement enriches the work of emerging South Australian artists by exposing them to different cultures and arts practices, while offering them valuable experience not readily available in Australia. At the same time, these overseas projects help raise the international profile of South Australia as a hub of creative education and training.
"As many of these students and graduates are at the very beginning of their careers as artists, it is important for them to have as broad a horizon as possible," says Alison Dunn, CEO Helpmann Academy. "By tapping into the knowledge and experience of overseas artists through master-classes and international arts institutions, or by taking their own projects to global audiences, these emerging artists are taking an important first step, and the Helpmann Academy is proud to be supporting them at this vital stage of their careers."
Some of the projects supported by the Helpmann Academy include:
Adelaide College of the Arts dance graduate Lisa Lonero will travel to South Africa to participate in a secondment with Debbie Turner, the Artistic Director of the Cape Dance Company during September and October. The secondment also offers the potential for a performance in the company's 2010 season.
Classical violinist from the Elder Conservatorium of Music Jeri Foreman will travel to the United States and Canada to undertake private lessons at four fiddle colleges. Jeri will also have the opportunity to attend a Celtic music festival.
Adelaide Central School of Art lecturer Chelsea Lehmann will undertake a professional research and development tour in Paris from July to September to develop and create a new body of work for exhibition at Arthouse Gallery in Sydney.
David Sprod - a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) graduate from the South Australian School of Art - will present his exhibition Cartoons by that Odd Mr Sprod to new audiences at the City of Sydney Library in September, following its successful showing in Adelaide.
Helpmann Academy grants are open to staff, students and recent graduates of the Adelaide Central School of Art, Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide), the Adelaide College of the Arts (TAFE SA), Vizarts O'Halloran Hill (TAFE SA), Flinders Drama and Screen Production (Flinders University) and the South Australian School of Art (UniSA).
The Helpmann Academy Grant Scheme is proudly supported by ETSA Utilities (platinum sponsor) and Ernst & Young.
The Helpmann Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts has announced its first round of competitive grants for 2010, awarding more than $33,000 to fourteen individual projects by emerging artists from a wide range of creative disciplines.
A significant number of these grants provide funding towards professional development projects interstate or overseas. This type of international engagement enriches the work of emerging South Australian artists by exposing them to different cultures and arts practices, while offering them valuable experience not readily available in Australia. At the same time, these overseas projects help raise the international profile of South Australia as a hub of creative education and training.
"As many of these students and graduates are at the very beginning of their careers as artists, it is important for them to have as broad a horizon as possible," says Alison Dunn, CEO Helpmann Academy. "By tapping into the knowledge and experience of overseas artists through master-classes and international arts institutions, or by taking their own projects to global audiences, these emerging artists are taking an important first step, and the Helpmann Academy is proud to be supporting them at this vital stage of their careers."
Some of the projects supported by the Helpmann Academy include:
Adelaide College of the Arts dance graduate Lisa Lonero will travel to South Africa to participate in a secondment with Debbie Turner, the Artistic Director of the Cape Dance Company during September and October. The secondment also offers the potential for a performance in the company's 2010 season.
Classical violinist from the Elder Conservatorium of Music Jeri Foreman will travel to the United States and Canada to undertake private lessons at four fiddle colleges. Jeri will also have the opportunity to attend a Celtic music festival.
Adelaide Central School of Art lecturer Chelsea Lehmann will undertake a professional research and development tour in Paris from July to September to develop and create a new body of work for exhibition at Arthouse Gallery in Sydney.
David Sprod - a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) graduate from the South Australian School of Art - will present his exhibition Cartoons by that Odd Mr Sprod to new audiences at the City of Sydney Library in September, following its successful showing in Adelaide.
Helpmann Academy grants are open to staff, students and recent graduates of the Adelaide Central School of Art, Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide), the Adelaide College of the Arts (TAFE SA), Vizarts O'Halloran Hill (TAFE SA), Flinders Drama and Screen Production (Flinders University) and the South Australian School of Art (UniSA).
The Helpmann Academy Grant Scheme is proudly supported by ETSA Utilities (platinum sponsor) and Ernst & Young.
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