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JUNE WRAP-UP | LATEST NEWS |
EVENTS | OPPORTUNITIES | GRANTS
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Have we heard your feedback? We have been receiving insightful feedback from the arts and cultural communities of Griffith, Leeton, Narrandera and Murrumbidgee on what professional development opportunities or events they'd like to see come to their region. Help inform our 2023 program - have your say!
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The Native Garden’s cultural learning area at Booligal Public School is now complete. Artist Kerri Weymouth with assistance from upcoming local Wiradjuri artist Emma Johnston worked with the students on the design and painting of the beautiful yarning circle. Connected by sitting around the yarning circle, students can come together to talk and share ideas as equals without any judgment. This project was supported by Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc.
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Eucalyptusdom is on display at the Powerhouse Museum until 28 August 2022. Featured in the First Nations Fashion + Design display is a dress (front left) by local designer Lillardia Briggs-Houston. Binyal (River Red Gum) Draped gown: Hand dyed habotai silk with ink lino print overlay, gumnuts, river red gum bark dye, river red gum sap. Image: Mika Nishimura
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The Western Riverina Arts ROR Residency has finished. Recipient Dorothy Roddy spent the six weeks at ROR Space in Griffith developing her arts practice: "I achieved all the goals I set myself and more besides. Thank you for enabling this opportunity and awarding it to me. It is an experience which has helped me grow as an artist and I highly recommend it to others."
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The Rescue of Riverina Native Birds exhibition has finished touring in Narrandera at the beautiful venue of The Hive. Thank you Melissa and John from The Hive for your assistance in setting up the exhibition. If you missed the exhibition you can view it from July 15 at its next stop which is the Griffith Regional Theatre.
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CASP Recipients Announcement
Western Riverina Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Country Arts Support Program (CASP) for the Western Riverina. A total of $17,992 has been awarded.
Administered by Western Riverina Arts, CASP is a Create NSW initiative that supports a creative, vibrant and resilient NSW arts and cultural sector that engages with diverse audiences and communities.
CASP is supporting six projects from our region that will be delivered over the next 12 months:
• Red Earth Ecology - Developing Our Riverina Artists (Griffith) $3,000
• Griffith Child Care Centre Inc. - Mending Fences (Griffith) $3,000
• Red Earth Ecology - Leeton Memories (Leeton) $2,992
• Murrumbidgee Council - Renew & Reconnect (Murrumbidgee) $3,000
• Griffith Regional Association of the Performing Arts - The Crucible (Griffith) $3,000
• Griffith Regional Association of the Performing Arts - Griffith Screen Acting and Production Workshops (Griffith) $3,000
Says Aanya Whitehead Executive Director of Western Riverina Arts: “This is a significant investment into our community arts across the Western Riverina. All the projects have large outcomes that bring people together and focus on wellbeing and upskilling. There is something for everyone when they start to happen over the next year. Our arts community can also look forward to the second round of the Western Riverina Arts Micro Grants that will open towards the end of this year.”
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National Cultural Policy: Have Your Say
The Australian Government is developing a renewed cultural policy for the decade ahead. Anyone involved in or interested in our nation’s arts, entertainment and cultural sector is encouraged to give feedback. Have your say on how they can place arts at the centre of modern Australian life, including respecting and celebrating First Nations art and culture, and recognising artists as critical workers in our economy.
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Expressions of Interest: Join the Western Riverina Arts Board
Are you passionate about your local community? Western Riverina Arts has two openings for board members. WRA is seeking a Murrumbidgee Community Representative and a Narrandera Community Representative.
As a newly elected board member you will be part of the governance of WRA and representing our four LGA regions of Griffith, Leeton, Murrumbidgee and Narrandera. As an active board member, the Executive Director will be relying on your expertise and representation in your communities and will seek your combined and/or individual advice and feedback related to both the broader region and your own communities. Representatives must be 18+. Please email Aanya at rado@westrivarts.com.au to submit an EOI.
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* The following events may be subject to change pending Covid-19 restrictions and current health advice. Please check in with each event organiser for updates and information regarding vaccination status.
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Rescue of Riverina Native Birds Exhibition
15 July to 22 August | Artspace, Griffith Regional Theatre
OPENING TIMES: Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Artists from across the region have been selected to take part in a group exhibition that raises awareness about the endangered Plains Wanderer, Australasian Bittern, Mallee-Fowl and their habitats. Visitors will be able to learn about the conservation and management which is integral to the species recovery. This is the exhibition's last stop in our region before it travels to the South West Riverina.
Artists: Jan Lawler, Miranda Brett, Josephine Duffy, Hape Kiddle, Cory McKenzie, Allan McKenzie Snr, Michael Lyons, Sophie Chauncy, Sharon De Valentin, The Spot Gallery Hay, Kerri Weymouth, Samantha Davies, Robyn Davis, Sarah Allen, Bernard Higgins, Jason Richardson, Finley Art Network, Linzie Joanne and David Booth (Ghostpatrol).
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Roslyn Lockhart: Her Story Exhibition
Closes 23 July | The Willows Homestead, 15 Powell Street Jerilderie
You're invited to celebrate Roslyn Lockhart's Her Story Exhibition! The celebratory event will be held 1:00pm - 2:30pm, Saturday 16th July. Please RSVP here. Roslyn Lockhart’s exhibition of painted portraiture, Her Story, shines a light on the females we admire and love from our region. This exhibition's opening times are Wednesday to Saturday, 10am-4pm and is on display until 23 July.
This exhibition is supported by Western Riverina Arts, Murrumbidgee Council, NSW Government through Create NSW and Leeton Museum and Gallery.
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Create NSW SongMakers Winter Sessions
27-28 September | Yanco Agricultural Institute
The search is on for aspiring songwriters in the Leeton Shire to be part of a new music industry mentoring program touring regional NSW. The SongMakers Winter Sessions are presented by national music organisation, APRA AMCOS, as part of the Office for Regional Youth Holiday Break program in partnership with Create NSW.
FREE places are being offered to 16 young people, aged 16-21, to participate in the program. They will spend 2 days writing and recording songs and learning about music careers with Sydney musicians, artist/producer/songwriter and triple j favourite, Ninajirachi; and artist/producer/MC Blake Rhodes aka Mr Rhodes. They will join resident musos, Ken Dachi, and Dookie to mentor participants through 2 days of creative collaboration.
The workshops will be held at Yanco Agricultural Institute. Interested young people can send an email to lily@songmakers.com.au or message @gosongmakers on Instagram for details about securing a place at the Leeton workshop - or register online.
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Wide Open July: Alice Halden & Ayla Young
Closes 30 July | Narrandera Arts and Community Centre
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Abundant School Holiday Activities
Various Dates July | Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Abundant school holiday activities are on offer at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery for children aged 7 – 12, with a parent/guardian to supervise. Explore the fantastical creatures, objects and worlds in Tom Moore’s Abundant Wonder exhibition, then kids can create their own Tom Moore wondrous creature to take home with them.
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Street Photography Exhibition
Ends September | Leeton Museum and Gallery
Before the days of Instagram, personal cameras, copyright and privacy laws, street photographers were a familiar part of city streets during the 1930’s to the late 1950’s, inadvertently creating a vast archive of black-and-white, postcard-sized candid images. Developed in collaboration with nationally acclaimed photomedia artist Anne Zahalka, this exhibition explores the heyday of this once popular but now forgotten genre.
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JamFactory Icon Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder
Closes 21 August | Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Tom Moore is one of Australia leading glass artists and over the course of his career has carved out a singular voice within Australian glass art making. Highly skilled in a range of glass working techniques, Moore uses traditional processes in innovative ways to create fantastical creatures, objects and worlds that can be both amusing and alarming. His engaging, sophisticated and technically challenging hybridised animal/plant sculptures and the fantastical worlds they inhabit are deeply embedded in the history of glass making and scientific discovery.
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Music NSW: Sound Advice | Booking a Tour
6pm - 7.20pm Wednesday 27 July | Zoom
Touring is complicated. There are so many things to keep track of, like which venues to approach, line-ups, backline, transport, budgets, accommodation, and all this before a chord’s even been strummed!
July's instalment of SOUND ADVICE to the rescue! Hosted by Mia Hull (FBi Radio) and featuring artist Loren Ryan, Rebecca Young (Collective Artists) and Tom Gordon (Yours & Owls), this panel will get you ready for whatever the road can throw at you, and will include an intro to MusicNSW’s game changing new tour planning tool, the Regional Touring Network (RTN). Check it out ahead of time at rtn.musicnsw.com
Live captioning will be available during the session. For any other access requirements please contact laura@musicnsw.com
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Dobell Drawing Prize #22
26 August - 23 October | Griffith Regional Art Gallery
The Dobell Drawing Prize is an unparalleled celebration of drawing technique and innovation. This National Art School touring exhibition showcases 43 of the 64 finalists from the 2021 Prize and includes Euan Macleod’s winning work, chosen by guest judge and acclaimed artist Lucy Culliton. Presenting a range of material approaches – from animation, collage and paper weaving, to charcoal, ink and watercolour – the exhibition demonstrates the remarkable vitality and scope of contemporary Australian drawing. Opening Event: 6pm Friday 26 August.
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Moorambilla Magic
13 July | Griffith Regional Theatre
Soroptimist Griffith presents Moorambilla Magic - An inspirational evening with Michelle Leonard. Relive the memories of the Outback Choir and meet the inspirational Michelle Leonard, Artistic Director of Moorambilla Voices, in conversation at the Griffith Regional Theatre. Hear how Michelle’s work uncovers artistic excellence in Australia’s regional youth, empowering them to ...THINK BIG, DREAM WILDLY and CONNECT TO COUNTRY.
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Grass Roots Under 30's Open Mic Competition
31 July | Griffith Regional Theatre
Perform at the Open Mic on Sunday 31 July for a chance to win one of three fantastic prizes:
• The Best Original Song winner get their music produced with a recording session at The Cad Factory, including a mixed and mastered finished song, valued at $800.
• The ADITO Award winner will open at A Day in the Orchard (ADITO) festival on Sunday 9 October, and get paid $500 for their ADITO performance.
• The Judges’ Choice winner will receive a ticket to the Sound Workshop with Hilary Geddes and Niki Johnson, as part of the Speaking Place workshops by ADITO at Piccolo Family Farm on Saturday 8th October.
PLUS all Grass Roots Open Mic participants will receive a ticket to A Day in the Orchard festival at Piccolo Family Farm. The comp is to all music genres and styles, solo artists, bands, producers and djs - limited spots, register now to avoid missing out!
Grass Roots is presented by Griffith Regional Theatre. Supported by Piccolo Family Farm through A Day in the Orchard, Western Riverina Arts and The Cad Factory.
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Robert Sherwood Duffield: Complex Surfaces
19 July - 30 August | Gallery 43, TAFE NSW, Wagga Wagga
Riverina-based artist Robert Sherwood Duffield's latest solo exhibition is Complex Surfaces. This body of work are all monoprints and use a process that Duffield has developed enabling him to print onto very lightweight paper. The works are representative of his restless need to investigate and experiment with media
He says, “These works are a welcome diversion to my usual and more constrained way of making that involves a lot of thinking. I am currently quite tired of work that ‘thinks too much’ these works however are still linked to my restless need to investigate and the satisfaction it gives me to explore colours, textures and media.
They are representative of an investigation into a process and a medium. However in their making there is a joy and surprise in that making that has intrigued and captured me for some time now. There is an almost endless variation of texture and colour within the complex surfaces.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I have, making them for you.”
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Coolamon Up2Date Exbibition
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Barpirdhila Grant
Are you a First Nations muso (or know one) that’s had their work screwed by COVID? The Adam Briggs Foundation has launched a new grants initiative called Barpirdhila (which translates to ‘morning star’ in the Yorta Yorta language), offering up to $10,000 to First Nations artists actively working on a forthcoming music project that’s been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The $10k can be put towards third party production costs – eg. studio hire, mixing and mastering, music video production, artwork, publicity, and merch. To be eligible, grant applicants are expected to have their project underway and due to be completed by end of December 2022.
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Women In Music Mentor Program
The Women in Music Mentor program is a four-year nation-wide mentoring and training program aimed at empowering women in the Australian music industry. The program will run once a year from 2020 to 2023 and is designed to enable women to navigate their career and leadership pathways, develop professional decision making, governance, commercial and corporate engagement skills. Closes 10 August.
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Every Voice Initiative
TikTok is partnering with Screen Australia and NZ On Air to support Aussie and Kiwi storytellers in sharing their voices and stories with the world and is intended for creators from under-represented backgrounds. Creators could receive up to $75K in production money. Applicants are required submit a short one minute pitch video and post the video on their public TikTok account, between 27 June and 21 July, including the hashtag #everyvoice, as well as providing their contact details via this online entry form. Terms and conditions can be found here.
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Varuna Residential Fellowship
Varuna Residential Fellowships offer two to three weeks of full board and accommodation at Varuna including a prepared evening meal, uninterrupted time to write in your own private studio, the companionship of your fellow writers and a one-hour Varuna Conversation with a Varuna consultant. In 2023, Varuna will offer 27 Varuna Residential Fellowships. Applications for the 2023 residency program closes midnight on July 29, 2022.
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Olga Masters Short Story Award 2022
The Award welcomes entries from writers of all ages resident in Australia. Short stories (2000 to 4000 words) on the theme of life in rural Australia. Main Prize is $1500 for first and $500 for runner-up. The first-prize winning story will be published in Island magazine. Entries are open now and will close on 31 August 2022.
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National Emerging Art Prize
The National Emerging Art Prize was established to provide a highly visible national platform to identify, promote and support the most promising emerging visual and ceramic artists in Australia. Offering a total prize pool of $30,000, up to 25 finalists will be invited to participate in an exhibition in November with all works available for sale to the public. This prize looks to connect collectors with emerging artists.
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Nextwave Youth Short Film Competition
The Nextwave Youth Short Film Competition is OPEN FOR ENTRIES! The Screenwave International Film Festival is looking for the next wave of storytellers. Are you between the ages of 10 - 25, living in Australia, and love to get creative ? Then Nextwave is for you! The rules are simple: Create a film under 5 minutes, Include this year ’ s theme and item, TRANSFORMATION and GREEN. Submit your film before October 25 for your chance to win big, and have your film premiere at the 2023 Screenwave International Film Festival! Head to www.nextwavefilm.com.au to learn more! Nextwave is proudly supported by Southern Cross University.
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Burning Seed Art Grants
Burning Seed is an experimental gathering held at Matong State Forest dedicated to creativity, collaboration and a cash-free community. Artists are encouraged to bring art installations to Burning Seed, which they can register here. There is also funding available specific to local Riverina residents who are interested in making art for Burning Seed. Generally ARTery looks to fund installations that are stand alone, sculptural installations that are independent of specific performances or activities, although these may accompany the installation.
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International Art Textile Biennale
Fibre Arts Australia is calling for entries to the International Art Textile Biennale 2023. The International Art Textile Biennale (IATB) seeks to exhibit the best of contemporary art textiles and invites submissions, from Australia and Internationally, that reflect a wide range of works related to the textile medium. Total prize monies AU$15,000. Entries close 17/08/2022.
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joanne burns Microlit Award
This award seeks submissions of microfiction or prose poems, up to 200 words, which reflect on some form or aspect of play – whether playful ideas, language or behaviour. Spineless Wonders will offer publication to the winner and finalists in its annual anthology. Submissions due by midnight, August 28, 2022.
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Fed Art Prize 2022
Entries to the Federation Art Prize 2022 are now open! Artists who work across two and three dimensional mediums are invited to enter their work in this years prize and exhibition. There are $7,500 worth of prizes including the $3,000 Federation Art Prize acquisition for overall winner. Entries close 12 September.
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Mona Mag #CollaboWriMo
This July Mona Magazine are giving you an excuse to get together with your female* writing friends and write a collaborative piece for their first Mona Anthology! If you, or one of your collective live in rural or regional Australia, submit your collaborative writing by the 31st of July to be featured in Mona's collaborative anthology! The best three pieces will be paid features on the Mona Blog in August!
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Mosman Art Prize
Mosman Art Gallery is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the 2022 Mosman Art Prize. Established in 1947 it is the oldest Municipal Art Prize in Australia. This national acquisitive painting prize is valued at $50,000 with an additional four awards on offer, including an Emerging Artists’ Award. Entries close 20 July, 5pm.
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First Nations Creators Program
Screen Australia’s First Nations Department and Meta Australia are pleased to announce that the First Nations Creators Program for Instagram is returning in 2022, with applications now open. Creators who successfully complete the program will receive production funding of $5,000 and equipment to help them create a Reels project series for their Instagram account. Applications close at 5pm AEST Thursday 25 August.
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RAF Project Grants Open
The Project Grants will fund high-quality arts projects benefitting regional or remote artists, arts workers, audiences and communities. The focus of the project could include any area of creative practice, multiple art forms or cross-disciplinary practice. Apply for up to $30,000! Regional Arts Fund (RAF) Project Grants will close on Monday, 15 August 2022 at 5:00pm.
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AlburyCity Short Story Award
Writers from across Australia are invited to enter the AlburyCity Short Story Award. There is no set theme. Just submit your most inspired writing! The word limit is 3,000. First prize $1,000; 2nd prize $200 book voucher; 3rd prize $100 book voucher. Closes Monday 25 July, midnight.
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Sustainable Waste 2 Art Prize
The City of Ryde’s annual Sustainable Waste 2 Art Prize (SWAP) is back for its 12th year in partnership with Meadowbank TAFE. With $5,000 in prizes and more opportunities to get creative, this environmental art competition is not to be missed. Applications close 31 July 2022.
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Meroogal Women’s Art Prize
Sydney Living Museums is excited to announce that entries are now open for the 2022 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, with a prize pool of over $10,000. Female artists from across NSW are invited to submit works, in any medium, that respond to the historic house of Meroogal, its former occupants, and its meaning within broader historical and contemporary contexts.
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Creative Riverina Database
Are you on the database? Artists and performers of all kinds are listed on CREATIVE RIVERINA, the go-to online directory for creatives in our region! Make sure people can find you - create your FREE listing today!
The online database is also accompanied by a supportive online Facebook group with over 400 members. Artists and arts organisations of all types from Riverina NSW can share their ideas, events and simply connect! Join the CREATIVE RIVERINA group now!
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Oxford & Foley EOI Public Art
Oxford & Foley are seeking expressions of interest from artists, curators and organisations to create a second iteration of the WE ARE HERE(2013) artwork on the northern Foley Street facade at 90 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. It is anticipated three to five artists will contribute to the facade with separate artworks at different locations or through design development with the curator and other artists. The $200,000 budget will be split across the selected three to five different artworks/artists. Expressions of Interest close at 12 noon on 15 July 2022.
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JADA 2022
Grafton Regional Gallery is inviting Australian artists aged 16 and over to enter in their biennial Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA)! The award seeks to encourage and promote innovation and excellence in drawing, while playing a vital role in fostering Australian drawing practice. Entries close Sunday 17th July.
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The Basil Sellers Art Prize
The Basil Sellers Art Prize is a biennial competition celebrating and awarding artistic excellence and creative practice and offers a prize pool of over $30,000. In 2022 the prize is poised to become a nationwide prize with a new direction for the latest evolution and an increased major prize of $25,000. All entries must be received by Friday 29 July 2022.
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