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Arts + Culture Update
April '24
Griffith l Leeton l Murrumbidgee l Narrandera
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Penny Paniz Acquisitive Arts Competition & Exhibition
Leeton Museum and Art Gallery l Chelmsford Place
Congratulations to all the Award Winners (and all entrants!) of the Penny Paniz Acquisitive Arts Exhibition held by the Leeton Art Society Inc. Entries exceeded all expectations with more than 150 artworks entered. The awards night was well-attended and a brilliant celebration of community and art. Well done to the Leeton Art Society, their partners and sponsors on the creation and continued growth of this well-regarded regional art prize.
Prize Winners
Acquisitive Prize – sponsor Leeton Shire Council
Deborah Carroll 'Times of Dust & Rain'
Champion Exhibit – sponsor Western Riverina Arts
Anne Morshead 'From Lavender Bay'
Young Artist – sponsor Rotary Club of Leeton
Tahlia Daly 'Home'
Young Artist Encouragement – sponsor Rotary Club of Leeton
Juleesa Twigg 'The Voice in Our Heads'
Flora/Botanical – sponsor Maguires
Jan Thompson 'Hollyhock'
Fauna/Birds – sponsor Leeton Veterinary Hospital
Deborah Carroll 'Fairy Wrens in the Pink Blossom'
Still Life – sponsor Washington Furniture
Anne Morshead 'Red Pears & Rosebuds'
Landscapes – sponsor Milbrae Quarries Group
Josephine Parkhill 'Red Trees'
Portrait– sponsor Sam’s Tile and Light Centre
Shaun Myles 'She is Like the Wind'
Abstract – sponsor Celi Group
Shaun Myles 'Nectar'
Photography – sponsor Leeton Communications
Neil McAliece 'Breaking Through'
Digital Image - sponsor Amberley Pastoral
Glenn Saddler 'Miyagan Guulary'
Indigenous – sponsor Acme Enterprises
Tinyka Tabain 'Murrangadhinya'
Ray Watson Highly Commended – sponsor Stephen and Kathy McMahon
Kylie Baker 'Golden Moon'
Encouragement Award – sponsor Leeton Art Society Inc
Linzie Nardi 'Imminent Rain'
Encouragement Award – sponsor In the Frame
Zoe Hayward 'Morning Light'
The exhibition will be on display at Leeton Museum and Art Gallery until Saturday 4th May.
Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 3pm.
Image: 2024 Penny Paniz Acquisitive Prize Winner Deborah Carroll, Isis-Rae Ronan and Glenn Saddler courtesy Western Riverina Arts.
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Joyce Spencer Textile Fellowship
Textile artist R.R. (Rose) Pascoe from Portland was the 2023 recipient of the Joyce Spencer Textile Fellowship. The Fellowship has enabled Pascoe to develop and present a new body of work 'Digital Tactility', recently exhibited at The Annexe, Portland. Known for her exquisite hand-sculpted wearable art garments, Pascoe has responded to progressive physical barriers to her arts practice by embracing digitally aided production and design, in a way that maintains the hand, and the senses, at the core of the process.The works presented in 'Digital Tactility' are a marriage of the digitally fabricated and meticulously handmade.
“Rose Pascoe ventures into unknown fibrous realms with the ability of an engineer, the eye of an architect, and boldness of an innovator. She reveals a new world of looms and sound where each piece demands its space as a sculptural presence.” Said Executive Director, Western Riverina Arts, Aanya Whitehead, who attended the exhibition in Portland.
The Joyce Spencer Textile Awards are to support regional NSW textile artists or collectives to deliver new artworks or exhibitions. Named after the textile artist Joyce Spencer (1928 – 2019), the awards are made possible with funds from the Spencer family and Western Riverina Arts, in partnership with the Cad Factory.
Round 4 EOIs for the Joyce Spencer Textile Fellowship open on 1 May 2024 and close on 2 June 2024 and regional NSW textile artists are invited to apply.
Image: R.R Pascoe courtesy Western Riverina Arts.
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'Work of Art' Update - by Participating Artist Sharon de Valentin
'Work of Art' is a 17 month developmental project by Regional Arts NSW (RANSW), funded by Women NSW and supported by Western Riverina Arts. It is designed to help develop skills, strategies, confidence and connection for regional artists. I was honoured to be accepted into the program.
The tuition from Creative Plus Business CEO Monica Davidson and the coordination of the NSW Regional Arts team is phenomenal. We have worked through finance, communications and marketing, setting goals, peer coaching, prioritising workloads, action learning sets and building confidence.
I have also started mentoring sessions with Lismore artist Penny Evans, a practitioner in ceramics, collage and mixed media on paper. All the artists will co-design an industry event for November in which people come together in a regional location to talk, share practice and celebrate the achievements of the Work of Art participants.
Image: Sharon de Valentin with her work 'Surrender' courtesy the artist.
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Artist of the Month - Sonia (Paula) Undy
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Wiradjuri woman Sonia Undy is a Western Riverina artist, conducting a traditional weaving practice from her home studio in Griffith, NSW. For Sonia her weaving practice is anchored in culture, in family and in community. Though she is a multi-disciplinary artist, Sonia says that the revival and regeneration of traditional weaving practice leads to conversations, healing, and the sharing of family and community stories – both ancient and new.
“For girls and women, weaving circles provide a safe place to learn culture, to talk things out and learn a skill.” Sonia said.
Sonia says that to be able to concentrate, create and work with colours and materials as they come allows her to express emotion and create works of beauty. Sonia grew up in Griffith and Darlington Point, walking and learning with her grandmother, who shared stories of her own childhood at Warangesda. As a daughter, mother, and grandmother now Sonia wants to ensure that connections to culture and heritage are held strong and available for future generations.
“Both my grandmother and mother were single-minded that we be proud of our heritage and our culture. My mother studied at university and brought that determination back to her work in schools, building understanding and knowledge with kids and with staff. People stop to talk to Mum in the street now to tell her how important she was to them during their school years, and to thank her for the work that she did to make them feel safe and to listen to them. Her work was outside school too, I can remember visiting elders with Mum with her tape recorder, recording family stories and knowledge.”
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Sonia finds weaving to be a strong place for her and a way to find great calm during difficult times. She concentrates on wall hangings and baskets in traditional cultural weaving techniques, marrying colours and textiles in the moment, and often allowing the piece to draw her work along in certain directions.
Sonia generously shares her knowledge and practice through forums and in person, attending and teaching weaving techniques at regional festivals and events, such as the Warangesda Festival and the 2023 Cocoparra Corroboree. In 2023 she led the online weaving circle 'We Weave Together' for the Aboriginal Regional Arts Alliance event 'Here Now & Always' - a global showcasing of Aboriginal Arts and Culture from New South Wales hosted as an annual program of activities and an online festival program and art market.
She is currently one of several Wiradjuri artists working in partnership with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to heighten awareness of Wiradjuri culture at Cocoparra National Park which is a significant cultural site, through updated signage and language throughout the park.
Amidst family and work Sonia hopes to find more time and opportunities to develop her own weaving practice and to teach and share the skill.
Images: Sonia Undy and Weavings, courtesy Western Riverina Arts.
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JamFactory ICON Series
Of Light - Jessica Loughlin
Opening Event
6pm Friday 26th April 2024
Griffith Regional Art Gallery
JamFactory’s ICON Series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Jessica Loughlin is one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed glass artists. Loughlin creates ethereal kilnformed glass artworks that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. Her artworks explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space.
Griffith Regional Art Gallery.
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Tempo by Flying Fruit Fly Circus
Tuesday 9th April 7pm
Griffith Regional Theatre
A highly distinguished musician has arrived to conduct their latest symphony, but the orchestra is nowhere to be found. Fortunately, the Fruities are ready to save the day! Tempo features an extraordinary ensemble of young performers, aged between 12 and 18, who not only possess dazzling circus skills but also play instruments!
With plenty of gasp-inducing action, Tempo appeals to every age and is suitable, or perhaps essential, for all families.
Ordinary Kids doing Extraordinary Things!
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Music in the Regions - Sextets
7pm Wednesday 24th April
St Alban's Cathedral Griffith
7pm Friday 26th April
Leeton Museum and Art Gallery
Meet the Instruments - Morning Tea
11.30am Tuesday 23rd April
Kerri Weymouth Art Gallery & Studio Coleambally
Acacia Quartet, paired with phenomenal international guests, Emile Cantor and Laurentiu Sbarcea, will tour the Western Riverina this month. Performing Dvorak's Op. 48 and Brahms' Op. 36, this tour also includes the world premiere of a new work from Australian composer Lyle Chan. Emile and Laurentiu will be the first international artists to tour with Music in the Regions.
The Acacia Quartet will also be hosted by the Kerri Weymouth Art Gallery & Studio in Coleambally for a community 'Meet the Instruments' morning, a short performance, morning tea and chat. This is a free event, but space is limited. Please RSVP by calling Kerri Weymouth on 0407 233 240 or popping into the gallery.
Griffith tickets
Leeton Tickets
Image: Top left: Emile Cantor (Photography by Susanne Diesner). Bottom left: Laurentiu Sbarcea (Photography by Susanne Diesner). Members of Acacia Quartet Lisa Stewart, Stefan Duwe, Doreen Cumming, Anna Martin-Scrase (Photography by Martin Ollman).
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Author Talk - Andrew Skeoch
'Deep Listening to Nature'
1.30pm Wednesday 10th April
Narrandera Shire Library
6.30pm Wednesday 10th April
Leeton Shire Library
Andrew Skeoch is a naturalist, sound recordist, environmental thinker and author of 'Deep Listening to Nature'.
Over the last thirty years, Andrew has been documenting the sounds of environments around the planet, and through his label 'Listening Earth', published over one hundred recordings allowing listeners to immerse themselves in wild soundscapes from around the world.
Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature's sounds and learn how to truly listen to the world around you.
Narrandera Shire Library
Leeton Shire Library
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The Stitch Up - NACNet
The Arts Hub Narrandera Railway Station
Narrandera Arts & Creative Network (NACNet) are excited to launch
the Stitch Up project led by Lindee Russell and made possible by Western Riverina Arts 2023 Country Arts Support Program. The project will create a series of unique panels that will be installed at the Arts Hub. This collaborative community arts project welcomes you to participate.
PLANNING AND DESIGN
Session 1 Tuesday 9 April 2024 - 2-3PM
Session 2 Sunday 14 April 2024 -2-3PM
The ArtsHub at the Narrandera Railway Station.
Attend either session to learn more about the project and contribute ideas towards the creative concepts.
For more details - NACNet.
Participation in The Stitch Up Project is free and only available to adults.
Image: Narrandera Artist Lindee Russell courtesy NACNet.
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Country Change Expo
RDA Riverina is inviting city dwellers to see what they could gain from a move to the region with a weekend of events on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April.
The Country Change Expo in Wagga Wagga on Saturday 20 April will showcase organisations from a range of industries including housing, education, training, health and lifestyle, as well as employers. Potential relocators can have all their questions answered from jobs to schools and how much a house will cost (plus where to find good coffee).
Regional councils have partnered with RDA Riverina to compile itineraries for a ‘choose your own adventure’ road trip to nearby towns on Sunday 21 April.
Find out more about the weekend and events at RDA Riverina.
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Ardlethan Art Prize
6.30pm Friday 10th May
Ardlethan Memorial Hall
Advance Ardlethan invites entries to the 2024 Ardlethan Art Prize, which will take place from Friday 10 May to Sunday 12 May. Entries are open for the competition, with three sections: Junior, Open and Days of Old.
The Ardlethan Art Prize Exhibition will be hosted 10th, 11th and 12th May 2024
Gala Opening and prize announcements Friday 10 May - 6:30pm
Cost: $20 Gala Night.
Please email k_wood57@outlook.com for artwork requirements and registration.
More information and entries at Ardlethan Art Prize.
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Aboriginal Languages Revival Program
The Aboriginal Languages Revival Program provides one-off funding to eligible Aboriginal community organisations and groups to support them to commence or build on smaller scale Languages revival projects. The program aims to promote and raise awareness of Aboriginal languages in communities across NSW.
This is an open and competitive grants program. Applicants can apply for grants from $1,000 up to $25,000. The Aboriginal Languages Trust has allocated $650,000 for the Aboriginal Languages Revival Program in 2023-2024.
For projects delivered by recipients between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025.
Applications open 9:00am Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Applications close 11:59pm Sunday, 7 April 2024.
More details.
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2024 FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants
FRRR and donor partners collaborate with ABC Heywire to help communities take action on the ideas generated by young Australians who attend the annual Heywire Regional Youth Summit.
Grants of up to $10,000 are available for communities across Australia to adopt, adapt and act on the ideas generated at the Heywire Summit. FRRR first joined forces with the ABC in 2013 and the positive impact of the grants awarded so far is being felt in 160 rural and regional communities around Australia.
The 2024 ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grant Program is now open.
Applications close 29 May, 2024, with funding announcements in August 2024.
There will be a FREE Grantseeker Workshop on Tuesday, 9 April from 12pm – 1pm AEST
More details.
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AWG Emerging Writers' Awards
The Australian Writers' Guild Emerging Writers' Awards (previously the Monte Miller Awards) are the premier awards for unproduced scripts in Australia. Dedicated to uncovering the best new scripts and talents among AWG’s Associate and Student membership, they are your opportunity to put your work in the spotlight and showcase your talent to the industry.
Categories are open to short and long form work across all genres and formats, including film (feature length and short), television, theatre and interactive, with the winning scripts announced at a dedicated industry event in Melbourne.
Entries for the 2024 Emerging Writers' Awards are currently open and will close 5pm AEST Wednesday 17 April 2024.
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Leeton Shire Council Community Strengthening Grants
These grants are offered twice per year to provide funding support to community groups and organisations in their endeavours to establish, strengthen and/or implement projects which will benefit the Leeton Shire Community.
Round 2 Closes – 30 April
Announced – after May Council meeting
Application details
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Destination NSW: Regional Event Fund: Incubator Event Stream
Closes 9 April 2024
This program aims to support innovative events that demonstrate sound organisational planning, have a unique alignment with the character and culture of the local region and which can demonstrate a broad appeal likely to promote tourism and attract overnight visitation. The purpose of the Incubator Event stream is to offer seed funding to events in Regional NSW to support their first or second year of activity.
More info
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Sound NSW Recording and Promotion Grants
Recording, releasing and performing new music is essential to the contemporary music industry. That’s why Sound NSW is investing $1 million in the form of Recording and Promotion Grants to support musicians to record and release new, original creative projects.
NSW artists can apply for grants of:
up to $25,000 for short-form releases, such as a single or EP
up to $50,000 for long-form releases, such as an album
up to $25,000 matched funding for artists signed to a major label.
Applications close 17 April 2024.
Register here for the online information session on 4 April to learn more about the program.
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The NSW Aboriginal Land Council
Regional Event Grants 2024-25
The NSWALC Regional Event Grants program provides grants for organisations and events that have Aboriginal participation and are of regional significance for Aboriginal peoples in NSW.
The events chosen must support and promote Aboriginal culture and/or sporting achievement. Activities that do not meet these purposes will not be funded under the Regional Event Grants program.
The maximum grant available is capped at $25,000 per applicant per year.
Eligible events must be held across the 2024-25 financial year.
Closing 5pm Tuesday 30 April 2024.
More Info
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