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December 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the December 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- About NAVA
- NAVA Out and About
- NAVA At Home
- NAVA Grants
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- December’s Featured Artist
The Board and staff of NAVA wish you all a very happy and safe Festive Season. NAVA greatly values the loyalty and enthusiastic participation of its members and we look forward to working with you again in 2013. We also cherish our benefactors, patrons, partners and our volunteers (might you want to be one next year?). We want to gratefully acknowledge the funding bodies who show their appreciation of what we do for the sector by continuing to provide generous support, especially the Australia Council, all national, state and territory governments through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, NSW Government through Arts NSW and the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency.
Please note the NAVA offices will be closed from Friday 21 December and will reopen again on Wednesday 2 January 2013.
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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Fair Payment for Artists
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NAVA continued its campaign for fair payment to artists through organising a meeting with Sally Basser, First Assistant Secretary, Office for the Arts to discuss NAVA’s request to the Arts Minister for his support. Ms Basser gave some excellent advice on which we will be acting. NAVA has also requested the opportunity to meet with the heads of all state and territory arts departments prior to the Meeting of Cultural Ministers in mid-March next year. This follows up on letters sent in November asking for their commitment and support.
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TAFE cuts
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Artrage Rally outside NSW Parliament House. Penny Ryan (right) presenting the Hon. Carmel Tebbutt (left) with the petition. Photo: Tamara Winikoff.
NAVA has been a leading participant in the Art in TAFE campaign in NSW aiming to reverse the government’s decision to withdraw subsidy for visual arts courses in TAFE. These cuts will mean that when courses become full fee paying in 2013, they will be out of reach for most people. It presents the danger that low take up rates may possibly lead to the discontinuation of arts courses altogether.
NAVA staff were active at several events: the rally at NSW Parliament House on November 14th and presentation of a petition with over 20,000 signatures; another protest at the entrance to the Art Gallery of NSW to coincide with the opening of the Francis Bacon exhibition; and on Monday 19th November along with about 100 other prominent artists and arts industry representatives, we attended an ArtRage event at the Damien Minton Gallery in Redfern, Sydney. The protests will continue.
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Digital Copyright
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At the end of November, a submission was lodged by NAVA in response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Discussion Paper on Digital Copyright. In its response, NAVA maintained the principle that while user access should be made as simple and efficient as possible, in the end the decision should rest with the artist about the terms on which their work can be used in reproduction.
NAVA’s submission drew on responses from you, our members to its questionnaire. Thanks everyone who contributed. This followed extensive discussion with copyright industry colleagues and attendance at the consultation roundtable organised by the Australia Council on November 8th. To read NAVA’s submission click here.
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NFP Tax Concessions
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The Government’s Not-for-profit Sector Tax Concession Working Group has released a consultation paper on tax concessions for the not-for-profit (NFP) sector seeking feedback on how these tax concessions can be made fairer, simpler and more effective.
NAVA will be making a submission by the closing date on Monday 17th December. To read more or make your own views known, visit here.
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Living Away from Home Allowance
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Recent legislation in relation to Living Away from Home Allowances may cause some problems for artist residencies. NAVA is consulting with KPMG experts to check whether this is the case or not. We’ll keep you posted.
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Design
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At its 16th November meeting, the Australian Design Alliance started planning a series of strategies for 2013 including the staging of an event in Canberra in February/March and developing a discussion paper to make the case for how building capacity and opportunity for Australian design integration will have important economic, social and cultural impacts.
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Deakin Participation
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Continuing in the role of Advisory Committee member for the Deakin University Art Participation initiative, Tamara provided suggestions for new moves at a teleconference meeting on 22 November.
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NAVA Board
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On Friday 30th November the NAVA Board met to make decisions on a range of policy and strategy matters including the program of activities for 2013. There will be some exciting new goodies being offered including an expanded ‘NAVA Connect’ array of on-line courses, including one on arts writing and another on building a website. Watch the visualarts.net website for details. In addition, the Board congratulated staff on the resounding success of NAVA Synergy. It will be offered again next year. And you will also see a new ‘brand’ for NAVA itself.
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30th Anniversary
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2013/4 is NAVA’s 30th anniversary. Look out for a rolling set of celebratory events to join in. These are in development at the moment so we can’t tell you yet, but watch this space.
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Melbourne Chats
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Tamara conducted a conversation about the issues of censorship, freedom of expression, risk management and artists’ rights with Victorian metropolitan and regional local government cultural managers at the invitation of Melbourne City Council. Tamara was deeply interested to hear these people’s experience and the barriers they have to try to overcome.
While in Melbourne Tamara also met with senior staff at Arts Victoria to discuss the Victorian Government’s attitude to fair payment for artists and other policy matters.
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Brisbane ATP
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NAVA staff will be joining the stampede to Brisbane for the opening of the enormously popular and successful Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art this weekend at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. This exhibition has blazed new trails in connecting Australia into our region and has brought the work of really exciting artists to our shores. While in Queensland, Tamara will be meeting with the Arts Minister's Adviser, Arts Queensland senior staff and arts sector colleagues.
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Building Artists Careers
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i) ‘Want to Travel? The Important Role of Residencies’
Studio at Performing Arts Forum, St-Erme, France. Photo: Monika Behrens
On the 11th December from 2 - 5pm NAVA and Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) will be hosting a forum on the significance of residencies for an artist’s career. The forum will explore the function, purpose and contribution of residencies in a national and global context. It will offer guest presentations from some of the key Australian residency organisations including Bundanon Trust, Artspace, Parramatta Artist Studios, Firstdraft and the Australia Council for the Arts. All guests will be welcome to drinks and canapés following the event.
Date: Tuesday 11 December
Time: arrive 1.45pm - 5pm
Venue: The main lecture hall, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), Balmain Road, Rozelle, Sydney.
Cost: Free
Registration: numbers are limited so register your attendance by emailing events@visualarts.net.au with Residency in the subject line
ii) Building Audiences Using Social Media
Marian Tubbs, Fine Art is the Most Luxurious Brand of All, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist.
Then on the 13th December NAVA will be hosting an event exploring how to build and maintain audiences using social media. This session will be facilitated by Nancy Georges, a speaker, author, social media, customer service and marketing specialist and NAVA’s Rochelle Haley will give an artist’s perspective on using social media to build your brand and audience.
Developing relationships and communicating with your audience and potential customers are vital to the success of any arts business. Using social media to enhance your brand and build the market for your art is key to turning your community into customers.
The seminar is focused on and is tailored to those developing an arts business. At the end of this seminar you will be equipped to take the next steps to ensure the longevity of your business.
Date: Thursday 13 December
Time: 3pm - 5pm
Venue: Level 2 Seminar Room, The Gunnery, 43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
RSVP: http://navasocialmedia.eventbrite.com
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National Craft Initiative
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With new funding from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) in partnership with NAVA will be undertaking a three-year program – the National Craft Initiative. Together, Brian Parkes, Director of the Jam Factory SA and Chair of ACDC and Tamara Winikoff from NAVA made a presentation to the Visual Arts Board on November 8th. A few days later we were delighted to be told that our bid had been successful. The funds will be used to research the nature of the sector and desirable directions for the future, hold a major conference and craft/design fair and develop new career opportunities for practitioners.
We will be recruiting a part-time Program Manager early in the new year to work from the NAVA office in Sydney so keep your eyes on the visularts.net website if you are interested in applying or know someone who would be suitable for the position.
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Synergy Wrap-Up
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Artist Dawne Fahey presenting her pitch to the panel. Photo: Tamara Winikoff.
The first NAVA Synergy pilot program has come to an exciting conclusion with participants delivering their project presentations to a panel of experts from a range of fields including an owner/entrepreneur of creative business, NSW local government representative, philanthropy expert, business development expert and national development manager. Synergy participants have worked hard over the 7 week program to develop their projects and have refined a range of skills and ideas to further their creative careers.
This program will be offered again next year. Watch the website for details.
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The Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Contemporary Art Award
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Deadline: 1 February 2013
This prestigious award supports emerging professional artists through publishing an image of a winner’s work on the back cover of each issue of Art & Australia magazine and inside, an article on the winner’s practice. One of the 2013 winners will have a work acquired for the Art & Australia Collection.
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The Australian Artists' Grant ( formerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant)
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Deadline: 15 February 2013
Supported by Mrs Janet Holmes à Court and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, this grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups.
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The NSW Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 February 2013
Funded by Arts NSW, this grant gives financial assistance to professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups.
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Xmas Card Competition Winner
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Congratulations to the winner of NAVA’s Annual Xmas Card Competition who is Svetlana Bailey with her beautiful image '12/8'. All members will be sent an electronic copy of the card very shortly.
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Latest NAVA Quarterly
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Keep a look out for the December issue of the NAVA Quarterly on the topic of ‘Learning’ which will be landing in your letterbox shortly. In this issue, NAVA deplores the cuts to TAFE in several states round the country and the defunding of visual arts vocational education and training courses in NSW. You’ll hear from Andrea Hull as she discusses the future of Australian art education and the discrepancies between the ambitions proposed in the ‘Australia in the Asian Century White Paper’ and the reality of what’s actually happening. NAVA’s Jill Gientzotis gives you a round up of the history and function of TAFE, while our Artist Profiles feature Kelly Doley and Sarah Rowbottam who provide insight into their practice as education, plus more good reading over the holidays.
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Find your next opportunity at mfva.com.au
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An exciting new benefit available to you as a NAVA Member is FREE access to our recently launched Money for Visual Artists Online. www.mfva.com.au has over 700 listings and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world.
It’s a simple and easy to use database that contains grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships and travel listings. MFVA Online helps you identify art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and links to application forms. The site is updated regularly by users (organisations) and NAVA and contains loads of information about current opportunities.
To access MFVA Online if you are a NAVA member, simply log in to the MFVA site at the login box at the top right of the screen using your current NAVA login details.
Non NAVA members can purchase a 12 month subscription for $35 but they will need to use the login they create on the NAVA site.
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More NAVA Membership Benefits
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One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
Francis Bacon: Five Decades exhibition is on at the Art Gallery of NSW, running from the 17 November until 24 February 2013.
Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists is showing at the National Gallery of Victoria from 16 November 2012 until 17 March 2013.
Coming Soon
Turner from the Tate will be showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 8 February until 13 March 2013.
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) will be on exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery from 8 December until 14 April 2013.
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December 2012 until 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
NAVA member Neil Howe, a digital media artist and film-maker, is collaborating with 30 other artists from all over the globe to produce an arthouse feature film titled ‘Tea In A Thundercup’, the experimental media project is directed and co-ordinated by South African artist/curator Alison Williams via Facebook. People can follow the making of the film (just being completed), on the Facebook page.
Cindy Mann won ‘Best Work on Paper’ recently at the Albert Park College Show 2012 Melbourne for pencil and paper collage, titled: Judith (& Head of Holofernes). Cindy's work is shown regularly at the Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, where until recently she enjoyed a long term incumbency as studio artist. Cindy now occupies a home-based studio, mostly doing works on paper, particularly colour drawings.
Cindy Mann, Judith (& Head of Holofernes),2012. Collage. image courtesy of the artist.
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to Rochelle Haley at rochelle@visualarts.net.au
This month's Featured Artist and winner of the Xmas Card Competition is NSW based Svetlana Bailey.
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Svetlana Bailey, 10/17, 2010. C-type print. Image courtesy of the artist.
Born in St Petersburg in the early 80s, Svetlana is a Sydney based photographer who trained at the College of Fine Arts (COFA). Svetlana’s work is seeking to investigate the ambivalence between belonging and being separate.
Recently NAVA talked to Svetlana about her practice and how the elements of fog and space are integral to her work.
How would you describe your art practice?
I photograph in fog in various unrelated locations. My work is an investigation of the ambiguity between belonging and being separate.
What is the significance of the locations you choose to shoot?
Location provides a context and a sense of belonging. The actual locations with which I work are for the most part anonymous, and the work isn't site specific. In fog, the background becomes obscured, so the cues to anchor location are subdued, and objects that are in their usual place become isolated. It gives one a sense of objects outside their normal context.
When did you decide to become a professional artist and what journey did you take to get there?
During the third year of the BFA at COFA, I understood that working as an artist was the single path that I was on. It felt more like a realisation.
What are you working on at the moment?
I'm in Chongqing, China on an artist residency, where I've set up a studio to make daguerrotypes. Working with daguerreotypes is a different experience of photomedia, as you finish with a unique piece. It's incredibly realistic and fine, and the way the image appears to float behind the surface is ethereal. The dynamic between real and unreal is part of what attracted me to this process, in the same way that I'm attracted to fog.
Where can we see your work?
My next exhibition in Australia will be at Edmund Pearce Gallery in Melbourne, starting April 10. And I'm in a very exciting group show in China right now called Homeland, along with German, English and Chinese artists, at the 501 Gallery in Chongqing, China's fog capital.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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November 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the November 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- NAVA Out and About
- NAVA At Home
- NAVA Grants
- NAVA Members - Plus details to enter NAVA's Annual Xmas Card Competition & Member's Survey!
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- November’s Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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Artists Fees Campaign
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In trying to secure responses from key decision makers to the call for payment of artists’ fees, in the last month NAVA has taken several actions. Firstly we sent a letter to Simon Crean and spoke to his arts adviser asking again for legislation and support funding for galleries to help them meet industry standards of payment of fees to artists. This was followed by letters being sent to all the state and territory arts ministers, and copied to their department heads asking for their commitment and support. Thirdly we have approached the Visual Arts Board and the Chair of the Australia Council as well as the Council’s Director of Arts Funding. We understand that the issue of fair payment to artists was discussed at length at the most recent Council meeting and Tamara will be making a presentation to the Visual Arts Board on Thursday this week. We also are planning to update our research on what is the current situation and will be sending out a questionnaire to galleries shortly.
We also have also just received a report from a-n, our sister organisation in the UK outlining similar moves being made in the UK, Canada and Scandinavia – link here
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TAFE cuts
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The proposed cuts to TAFEs around much of the country is a cause for real disquiet to NAVA especially the decision in NSW to only offer courses in Fine Arts (including sculpture, visual arts and ceramics) on a fee for service basis from 1 January 2013. This effectively prices the courses out of reach for most people. The rationale given for this decision was, ”while valued by the community, (they) are areas of low employment growth”. There is no acknowledgement that education is preparation for work over 40 to 50 years, and that increasingly the skills which artists develop of creativity, adaptability and resourcefulness are sought by employers in a great range of industries. NAVA has written a letter of protest to the Premier Barry O’Farrell and is joining with other campaigners to try to reverse this decision.
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Digital Copyright Inquiry
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NAVA’s submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC)’s Inquiry into Copyright and the Digital Economy is being written for lodgement by the deadline on 16 November. We are concerned that the ALRC may recommend undesirable changes to the statutory licences, and new or extended ‘exceptions’ that will allow uses of artistic content without permission or payment. This could diminish the income to artists from current licensing of their works, and their development of new sources of income. Tamara heard some useful views put by other arts bodies at a round table meeting on this issue organised by the Australia Council on 29 October.
To flesh out our case, we have put a survey on-line and sent it out on Facebook asking for artists’ views and experiences. It is very easy to fill in. Go to http://www.visualarts.net.au/newsdesk/2012/11/navaseekingyourresponsealrcinquirycopyrightdigitalage but we need your responses by 10 November. If you want to send your own submission there’s still time. Go here http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright-and-digital-economy
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National Cultural Policy (NCP)
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The word is that the release of the NCP is delayed until some time in 2013. We suspect it will come out close to Budget time in May so that some funding allocations can be negotiated, to be announced by the Arts Minister, Simon Crean.
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Sydney Public Seminars coming up
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At 6.00pm on Thursday 8th November, NAVA is partnering with the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council to run an information session on grants for ARIs and early career artists. Tamara Winikoff will also share her 'top tips' for grant writing. Grants session: 8th Nov 6pm Bookings essential - book here
Supported by Arts NSW, on November 16th from 10am to 2pm, NAVA is running two workshops at Casula Powerhouse in Western Sydney focussing on artists’ career development. To make a booking email cppp@liverpool.nsw.gov.au
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Public Talks in Hobart & Sydney
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NAVA’s Projects Manager, Kim Goodwin travelled to Tasmania in October to deliver two professional development events at Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST). The first presentation covered early career artist development, while the second was a newly created session on social media for beginners. Both sessions definitely hit the mark and it was great to catch up with the artist community in Hobart.
October also saw Kim present at St George TAFE in Sydney. It was a well attended and timely presentation, given the recent announcements of funding cuts to the TAFE network in NSW. Discussion focused on the role NAVA plays in the arts sector and the importance of artist run initiatives in the arts ecology.
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Arts and Disability Conference
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Image: Panelists at 'Desire and Destination' and Clarrice Collien working on her window wire tapestry. Image courtesy of Accessible Arts.
NAVA’s Executive Director Tamara Winikoff was a panelist at the Arts Activated ’Desire and Destination’ conference held in Sydney last week. The panel was asked to make observations about the value of the newly formed Supported Studio Network, and to identify barriers and openly discuss pathways to a future where visual artists with disability operate in the contemporary art world without differentiation or exclusion. The other speakers were:
- Gabrielle Mordy from Supported Studio Network, Studio Artes
- artist Michael Kempson, Senior Lecturer and Director of Cicada Press, College of Fine Arts, Uni of NSW
- Damien Minton, Damien Minton Gallery
- and facilitator was Colin Rhodes, head of Sydney College of the Arts.
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In Adelaide
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As a member of the Cultural Sector Advisory Committee of Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA), Tamara attended a meeting in Adelaide and put the TAFE cuts issue on the table for discussion. It was agreed that this will be taken up with the Board of IBSA. Also while in Adelaide, Tamara took the opportunity to meet with colleagues from Artlink magazine, Jam Factory, Australian Network for Art and Technology and the Integrated Design Commission.
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NAVA Synergy
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We are in week 5 of NAVA's new pilot program, ‘NAVA Synergy’. Our participants have been able to experience and discuss their project concepts with business coaches, key industry experts and learn in an online environment that is helping to shape their professional skills and potential for gaining new opportunities and support. We are very excited by the developments and have learned a lot already. Stay tuned for the outcomes in December and the opportunity to be involved in the next round in 2013.
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We're in a planning daze!
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For two days in October NAVA staff were in lockdown while we contemplated our future branding, visions, goals and strategic plans for 2013.
To kick off, NAVA staff took a big hard look at our current member and sector services: what we do; how we do it; and for whom. We discussed at length the needs of artists, designers and craftspeople throughout all stages of their careers and measured the gaps in professional development provision and how NAVA can attempt to fill these. We also looked at NAVA's infrastructure, growth, support & sustainability.
By the end of day two the NAVA team were feeling weary yet invigorated by all the exciting plans to be put into place in 2013.
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Farewells
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After two years of service we farewell our Promotions & Marketing Coordinator Micaela Giffney who is heading out west to Orange for a ‘green change’. We warmly thank her for her contribution and wish her good luck with her future ambitions and all the best for her upcoming nuptials.
NAVA’s recently farewelled On-line Communications Co-ordinator, Kim Hirst on her wedding day in New Zealand.
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Winner of the Windmill Trust Scholarship Announced
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NAVA is pleased to announce Bradley Hammond of Orange as this year’s winner of the Windmill Trust Scholarship for 2012.
Drawing directly from life, Bradley’s practice focuses on the surrounding environment of the Central West as the subject for his work. Crafting instruments from bulrushes to create marks using ink, his delicate drawings capture the stillness and silence of working in the field and are a tribute to landscape that is so integral to his work.
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Images (L to R): Plant drawings from sketchbook. Gosling Creek Drawing #5, 2010, bulrush reed pen and ink on Hahnmuhle paper, 110cm x 80cm. Images courtesy of the artist.
Bradley said about winning the Windmill Scholarship, “It's very encouraging to have my work acknowledged in this way. It's good to know that those solitary times spent drawing along river banks and in orchards are not only for my own pleasure but are also meaningful to others in some way.”
The Trustees of the Windmill Trust and their supporters joined the NAVA staff last week for a formal presentation to celebrate Bradley’s achievements and to award him the cheque for $5,000.
The annual scholarship was established in 1997, by Prim Moss to honour her sister, artist and former Director of the Macquarie Galleries, the late Penny (Moss) Meagher.
Click here to read the full interview with Bradley or click here to visit his website.
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The Australian Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 November 2012
Supported by Mrs Janet Holmes à Court and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, this grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups.
Click here to apply
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The NSW Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 November 2012
Funded by Arts NSW, this grant gives financial assistance to professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups.
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Member's Survey
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We’ve asked ourselves the hard questions. Now it’s time for you to tell us what you think! NAVA invites you to participate in our survey aimed at finding out more about you and how you use our services and what you’d like us to do for you in the future. It also helps us to keep in touch and on the right track.
Here is the link to the quick survey – and to say thank you for your time we've got a number of giveaways!
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NAVA's Annual Xmas Card Competition
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We are pleased to announce that entries are NOW OPEN for NAVA’s Annual Xmas Card Competition - deadline COB Friday 23 November 2012.
Offered exclusively to NAVA members, this competition is an excellent opportunity to promote and gain exposure from your work.
The selected image will be showcased on a digital e-card and the winner will be the featured artist on NAVA’s website throughout the Xmas/New Year festive period. The artist will also receive a copyright fee for the use of their artwork.
TO ENTER, email the URL for your 'Artist Gallery' on the NAVA website with your full name and membership number to Micaela Giffney Promotions & Marketing Coordinator micaela@visualarts.net.au with ‘Xmas card' in the subject field.
If you have an image preference, make sure you mention this is your email.
Only the winner will be contacted and a formal announcement will be made nationally via the NAVA news e-bulletin on Thursday 6 December 2012.
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Find your next opportuniti at mfva.com.au
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An exciting new benefit available to you as a NAVA Member is FREE access to our newly launched Money for Visual Artists Online. www.mfva.com.au has over 700 listings and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world.
It’s a simple and easy to use database that contains grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships and travel listings. MFVA online helps you identify art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and links to application forms. The site is updated regularly by users (organisations) and NAVA and contains loads of information about current opportunities.
To access MFVA Online if you are a NAVA member, simply log in to the MFVA site at the login box at the top right of the screen using your current NAVA login details.
Non NAVA members can purchase a 12 month subscription for $35 but they will need to use the login they create on the NAVA site.
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More NAVA Membership Benefits
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One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
Picasso to Warhol is on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (from 16 June until 3 December 2012).
Coming Soon
Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists will be showing at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 16 November 2012 until 17 March 2013)
Frances Bacon: Five Decades exhibition will be on at the Art Gallery of NSW running from the 17 November until 24 February 2013;
Turner from the Tate will be showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 8 February until 13 March 2013.
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) will be on exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 8 December until 14 April 2012)
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December 2012 until 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
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Images (L to R): The Julia & David White Artist's Colony in Costa Rica and studio. Images courtesy of Liz Jeneid.
Liz Jeneid has started a month long residency at the Julia & David White Artist’s Colony in Costa Rica, a private retreat in the midst of a rainforest in Cludad Colon, 35 minutes from the capital of San Jose. Liz has kindly offered to correspond with any artists wishing to know more about this residency. To contact Liz please email micaela@visualarts.net.au
Image: Zorica Purlija, Winter Sunset. image courtesy of the artist.
Sydney photographer, Zorica Purlija, received an Honourable Mention in the Sunset Category for an International Photo Prize.
Inbetween is the first solo exhibition from Kimberley Pace whose work investigates the space between boundaries where subject and object meet, merge and separate. Inbetween runs from November 2nd – 6th, opening night Friday, November 2nd 6.30pm – 8.30pm at Free Range Gallery, 339 Wellington Street, Perth.
Image: Cara-Ann Simpson, Transitional spaces: underground Singapore, 2010. Image courtesy of the artist.
Cara-Ann Simpson recently won the Digital/Photographic Print category for the Albert Park College Art Show 2012.
Image: KT Doyle, Recollected Patterns: The botany of Walter Hill, 2012. Image courtesy of the artist.
KT Doyle is having a solo show at Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba from Monday 8 October – Wednesday 28 November 2012 entitled Recollected Patterns: The botany of Walter Hill. This exhibition explores plants cultivated in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens during colonial botanist Walter Hill’s curatorship (1855– 81), through a series of paper and textile-based works.
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Marketing and Promotions Coordinator at micaela@visualarts.net.au
November’s Featured Artist: Thomas Heidt
This month's Featured Artist is Western Australian based Thomas Heidt.
Recently NAVA talked to Thomas about his practice and how the elements of chance and randomness are integral to creating his work.
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Images (L to R): Thomas Heidt, Star, 2012, Ballpoint Pen and Hightlighter on Ply, H1200 mm x W1200 mm. The Happiness of Pursuit, 2012, Ballpoint Pen and Hightlighter on Ply, H1200 mm x W1200 mm. Photo: Sabine Heidt.
How would you describe your art practice?
I am interested in experimentation, chance and randomness. A significant part of my practice consists of setting up small experiments and tests and looking for meaning, beauty and sense in the unexpected or accidental events. These investigations and their findings form the origin of my works. I then translate them into drawings, paintings, sculptures or photographs.
Sometimes I also use randomness in the strict mathematical sense to create patterns and shapes. I like the idea of not knowing how the finished art piece will look.
What is the significance of the materials you choose to work with?
My preferred materials are plywood, colour pencils and pens, although depending on the project I will also use metal and perspex. I like to use my materials in unexpected combinations. I mainly do studio-based work but sometimes venture out and do public art.
For a recent project I used an 8 metre high Jarrah tree which was marked to be cut into firewood. I salvaged it and gilded the tree in 24 carat gold leaf before reinstalling it 200km away on a sculpture walk nestled in the southwest bushlands.
This love of materials comes from my interest in Arte Povera and Outsider Art, but I am also kicking against Minimalism and Conceptual Art.
When did you decide to become a professional artist and what journey did you take to get there?
I have always been interested in art. At 45 years of age I started taking evening classes in drawing after work and it all developed from there. The following year I enrolled fulltime in Visual Art & Craft at the South West Institute of Technology in Bunbury. Once I finished that I undertook an Advanced Diploma of Visual Art & Craft at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth. This involved travelling two days every week over 160kms for a 2-year period and staying in seedy cheap hotels. It was arduous but well worth it.
What are you working on at the moment?
At the moment I am working towards my third Solo exhibition at emerge ART SPACE using plywood, fluoro pens, liquid paper and inks. It seems to be very promising and I am excited about the possibilities.
Where can we see your work?
My work can be seen on my website http://www.thomasheidt.com/ and I am represented by emerge ART SPACE in Perth http://www.emerge-art.com.au/index.html
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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October 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the October 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- NAVA Out and About
- NAVA at Home
- About NAVA
- Grants
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- October’s Featured Artist
- NAVA Competition
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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NSW Government to defund art education in TAFE
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To keep art education accessible to all in NSW, NAVA encourages you to sign an online petition currently being circulated in support of continued funding for fine arts courses in the NSW TAFE http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/fund-art-education-in-nsw-tafe. To date, it has over 9330 signatures.
The NSW Government has announced that it will no longer continue to fund fine arts courses in TAFE from January 1, 2013 “as there are no job prospects for art students and there are skill shortages in other areas”. It is estimated that 4000 art students will be impacted and up to 400 teachers, potentially leaving them out of a job. Many of these students use the TAFE system to go on to further study or practice as artists. Many more apply their design, conceptual and creative skills in media and industry, and in management.
Contrary to the NSW Government’s claim, visual arts, design and architecture make up over 11% of the creative industries which have been growing in terms of employment opportunity. (See the Centre for International Economics, Creative Industries Economic Analysis June 2009).
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Artists Fees
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NAVA is continuing to seek the support of Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean for legislation to mandate the payment of artists’ fees for art work exhibited in public galleries either on loan or commissioned from artists, at the rate recommended in NAVA’s Code of Practice for the Professional Australian Visual Arts, Craft and Design Sector. NAVA is also calling for the allocation of funding specified for this purpose in the forthcoming National Cultural Policy in order to enable small to medium galleries and other exhibition spaces to meet this obligation.
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ACARA’s draft Australian Curriculum: the Arts
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Last week NAVA submitted a response to the recently released draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation to Year 10. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is the independent body responsible for the development of national curriculum and assessment for schools. NAVA’s submission to ACARA reinforced the importance of having mandatory art education from foundation to year 10 and supported the issues raised by the Visual Arts and Design Educators Association NSW (VADEA). To read NAVA’s full submission click here.
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Digital Copyright Inquiry
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NAVA currently is preparing a response to an inquiry being conducted at the behest of the government by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) into Copyright and the Digital Economy. Under the Terms of Reference for the Inquiry, the ALRC is considering whether exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act 1968 are adequate and appropriate in the digital environment and whether further exceptions should be recommended.
The ALRC received the Terms of Reference on 29 June 2012, and is currently seeking submissions until 16th November in response to the Issues Paper it released on 20 August 2012.
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Engineers Australia joins ADA
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The Australian Design Alliance (AdA) welcomed its newest member, Engineers Australia. AdA now consists of thirteen peak professional organisations representing designers in all sectors of the Australian design industry. Now including engineering professionals, its combined national membership is made up of close to 500,000 practitioners. To read ADA’s media release click here.
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Etsy Forum
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Etsy is the online marketplace for handmade objects. Etsy’s Australian Community Manager, Angela D’Alton spoke at a seminar organized by NAVA on selling artworks and objects online. Angela presented a number of seller case studies, and discussed the opportunities available to artists. With over 19 million visitors to the site daily it’s worth a visit Etsy's website.
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Artist Career Talks
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NAVA’s Projects Manager, Kim Goodwin, gave three talks this month on the topic of artists’ early careers. Kim’s presentation to groups at Pittwater Community Arts and at Port Macquarie’s art centre offered advice and information on opportunities for artists, developing networks and getting an arts business together. Kim also gave a seminar to students at the National Art School on life after art school and the support and opportunities available to graduating students.
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Tamara’s Art Jaunt
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NAVA’s Executive Director Tamara Winikoff has just returned from an arts rich month oversees. Though finding it hard to choose from the many exhibitions she saw in London and New York, she has nominated three favourites.
Art of Change: New Directions from China, is an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery which focuses on contemporary Chinese installation and performance art from the 1980s to the present. Spookily Tamara found herself shadowed by a striped pyjama clad ‘observer’, one of several who were detailed to stalk visitors and presumably give them a taste of the heavy hand of state control of artistic expression.
Image courtesy of Tamara Winikoff.
Appealing to Tamara’s love of architecture and design, Century of the Child: Growing by Design,1900–2000 is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s first large-scale overview of the 20th century modernist preoccupation with children and childhood as a paradigm for progressive design thinking. The exhibition brings together school architecture, clothing, playgrounds, toys and games, children’s hospitals and safety equipment, nurseries, furniture, and book.
Tamara’s continuing interest in contemporary politics and photography drew her to the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, an exhibition at the International Center for Photography examining the legacy of the apartheid system and how it penetrated even the most mundane aspects of social existence in South Africa, from housing, public amenities, and transportation to education, tourism, religion, and businesses http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions.
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New Employees
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NAVA warmly welcomes two new staff members to the team who will replace Kimberley Hirst, our former Online Communications Coordinator. Kim has left to get married and return to the UK. She was fondly farewelled at a staff lunch in mid September.
Rochelle Haley is the newly appointed ArtsCareer Coordinator (2 days/week) and will tackle the task of managing this cross-arts platform which is dedicated to career development of artists and arts educators. Rochelle is a successful practising artist, who has just recently returned from two years of consecutive overseas artist residencies. Rochelle held her most recent exhibition in September this year at Galerie PomPom. Rochelle is also a passionate and experienced communications consultant who has worked with both artists and arts organisations to develop their communications strategies.
In the position of Online Communications Coordinator (3 days/week) NAVA welcomes Alexandra Baranov. Alexandra is a digital designer interested in the application and usability of interactive media, the evolution of the World Wide Web, and the art of storytelling in visual forms. As a video game designer in Brisbane, Australia, she worked closely with 3D artists, sound designers, animators and programmers to create video games for the Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. She has a Diploma in Information Technology, Software Development with a focus on game development. Alexandra also collaborates with other creatives on web development, short films, music and photographic projects.
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Calling all Sculptors!
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The Sainsbury Sculptural Grant is the latest addition to NAVA’s suite of grant programs and is now open for applications. Emerging sculptors and installation artists can now apply for funding of up to $2,000 for individuals and up to $4,000 for groups for the costs associated with furthering their professional skills. The Sainsbury Grant is open to emerging sculptors nationally. Deadline 30 October.
Click here to apply.
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NAVA Synergy
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In October NAVA commences the 7-week Synergy Program. Synergy is an incubator program that aims to enable artists to gain practical skills in forming and growing a sustainable business seven artists have been matched with seven coaches from other industries and will undertake a range of learning activities including facilitated events, online learning and preparation of a project pitch.
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The Australian Artists' Grant (formerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant)
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Deadline: 15 November 2012
This grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups.
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The NSW Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 November 2012
This grant gives financial assistance to professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups.
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Find your next opportunity at mfva.com.au
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An exciting new benefit available to you as a NAVA Member is FREE access to our newly launched Money for Visual Artists Online. www.mfva.com.au has over 700 listings and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world.
It’s a simple and easy to use database that contains grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships and travel listings. MFVA online helps you identify art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and links to application forms. The site is updated regularly by users (organisations) and NAVA and contains loads of information about current opportunities.
To access MFVA Online if you are a NAVA member, simply log in to the MFVA site at the login box at the top right of the screen using your current NAVA login details.
If you are not a NAVA member, you can purchase a 12 month subscription for $35 but you will need to use the login you create on the NAVA site.
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More NAVA Membership Benefits
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One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire is showing at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Picasso to Warhol is on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (from 16 June until 3 December 2012).
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado is on exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
Eugène Atgets’ Old Paris exhibition is on at the Art Gallery of NSW running from the 24 August until 4 November 2012;
Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons is showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia from August 31 until 4 November 2012.
Coming Soon
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December 2012
until the 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
Anita Larkin will be showing her work Apparatus for the Repatriation of Tears at the 5th Beijing International Art Biennale. Larkin is one of 4 Australians selected for this international event with the curatorial theme of Future and Reality. The Biennale runs from 28th September – 22nd October 2012 at The National Art Museum of China, Beijing. http://www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/anitalarkin
Emerging industrial designer Alexander Arias was selected to participate in this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival. His work was on exhibition at ‘The Forum’ in Sydney’s Leichhardt. http://www.ialexdesign.com/
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Barbara van der Linden recently received a ‘Canberra 100’ grant to exhibit her Faces of Canberra project during the Canberra Centenary celebrations in 2013. www.barbart.com.au
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Marketing and Promotions Coordinator at micaela@visualarts.net.au
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October’s Featured Artist: Jamie Boys
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This month's Featured Artist is Melbourne based Jamie Boys. Jamie is an installation artist, drawing upon of variety of different mediums such as photography, drawing, digital video, painting and sound.
Recently NAVA talked to Jamie about his practice and the shift that caused him to step out from behind the canvas and to place himself within the centre of his work.
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Image: Jamie Boys, Transient Permanence, Video Still, 2012. Image courtesy of the artist.
How would you describe your art practice?
Multi-disciplined, weird and often humorous. I need humour in my art; I think art is way too serious these days.
Why is it important to you to involve yourself physically in your works?
A few years ago I was focused on producing paintings but my work became stagnant and boring. I was producing works that I liked but the process had become a bit of a formula and wasn’t challenging me. I had mastered my style.
After reading Eugen Herrigel’s book, Zen in the Art of Archery it opened me up to a whole new way of approaching my art and how I created. After watching a cowboy beetle, (this can be seen in my work 2010 - A POINT OF SURRENDER on my website) trying to make its way across the tanbark in my backyard, I decide I wanted to limit every sensory input and all control over my actions to creating a work, so that I would gain understanding through my failure. This is not a new thing; many artists have explored this in the past, but for me it was like a revelation and a sense of freedom came over me.
By producing the work physically I find I am constantly present in the work and aware of every sensation and thought. I realise now that I very rarely had this when I was painting.
What draws you to a particular landscape to create a work?
Isolated areas are important, as I love the dramatic effect of empty barren landscapes. I prefer these empty spaces because visually you are forced to focus on the figure, plus it creates a space for the viewer for contemplation.
Does your work develop in response to the landscape or do you have an idea of what your work will be before you go?
I usually have an idea of the type of landscape I want to work in before I go. It can be a place I have seen before on a previous drive or I will drive until the perfect scene presents itself.
Once at the location I have a sequence of shots in my head that I need to get in order for the narrative to flow. These things never really go to plan due to weather or people being around so you begin to let the landscape direct you. I have found over the years if you allow this to happen then the final work is often better than what you had in your mind.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am currently in the process of finalising a video and a drawing for a group show called CASHMERE IF YOU CAN / Series – 6 that will be held at C3 Contemporary Art Space from the 29th Aug 16th Sept 2012. CASHMERE IF YOU CAN is a 7-year group project I started in 2007 that deals with the acquisition of raised status through competition and consumerism. I am also about to start a large scale commissioned ceiling drawing for a restaurant called Epocha in Melbourne. This will be my Sistine Chapel.
Where can we see your work?
www.jamieboys.com or cashmereifyoucanseries1-7.blogspot.com.au
To Rome With Love does for Rome what Woody Allen did for Barcelona in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Featuring a fantastic ensemble cast including Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page and Roberto Benigni, To Rome With Love is a kaleidoscopic romantic comedy set in one of the world’s most enchanting cities. Trailer Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YeaWRJisU
In cinemas October 18.
For your chance to win a double pass to see To Rome With Love, email your name and address details to competitions@hopscotchfilms.com.au and tell us in 25 words or less what is your favourite Italian work of art or architecture and why. Personal information supplied will be solely used in connection with this promotion and not disclosed to any third party.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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September 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the September 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- NAVA Out and About
- NAVA Talks and Events
- NAVA at Home
- About NAVA
- Work With Us
- Grants
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- September’s Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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Payment of Artists Fees Petition
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Thanks very much to all of you who took the trouble to sign the NAVA petition asking the Commonwealth Government to mandate the payment by public galleries of artists’ loan and commissioning fees at the recommended arts industry rate and for funds to be allocated for this purpose as part of the National Cultural Policy. By the deadline we had exceeded our target of 4,000 signatures. The petition has been sent to the Arts Minister, Simon Crean with a request for him to champion this cause in parliament and to allocate funds in the NCP to help the public galleries in need of assistance to meet the cost. To follow the progress of this campaign click here.
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Changes to Australia Council
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I know we have been mentioning the National Cultural Policy (NCP) forever but are promised it is definitely coming! NAVA has been having meetings and keeping a watch on what’s unrolling. As part of this story, the Arts Minister Simon Crean announced the second in an expected series of changes relating to the structure and responsibilities of the Australia Council. Arts touring programs previously managed out of the Federal Government’s Office for the Arts will now be taken over by the Australia Council. Playing Australia, Visions of Australia, Festivals Australia, the Contemporary Music Touring Program and Contemporary Touring Initiative are intended to take high quality contemporary music and circus, theatre and exhibitions around regional Australia.
At the same time it was announced that responsibility for the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS) also will transfer to the Australia Council from the Office for the Arts. As the result of the government’s Myer Inquiry, since 2003 this strategy has been delivering over $12 million a year in additional funding to support the sector. However, it is renegotiated every four years and before the next round NAVA will be lobbying for a new analysis to be undertaken to take stock of what has been achieved and where things should go next.
Minister Crean also recently followed the recommendation from the Mitchell Inquiry to create of a new organisation through the merger of Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) and the Australia Council's Artsupport Australia program to encourage increased levels of private sector and philanthropic support for the arts.
The Australia Council itself has released a new planning document entitled The Emerging and Experimental Arts Sector Plan, for its Inter-Arts Office outlining the expanded range of emerging and experimental art that it will be supporting including live art, art/science collaboration, hybrid art, open source and crowd-sourced platforms and gaming, technology and interactive art.
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Melbourne Art Fair
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Over five blissful Melbourne days, NAVA held the fort at the prestigious Melbourne Art Fair. We talked shop, met artists, curators, art lovers and mingled with fellow art sector workers. Our fearless leader, Tamara Winikoff led the charge while we all busily collected over 1000 signatures for NAVA’s ‘Fair payment of artists fees campaign’ during the five day visit.
Amongst the many conversations, our friends at ‘Art Month Sydney’ informed us of a recent success story as a result of a NAVA supported Art Month ‘Speed Dating’ event whereby artist Baden Pailthorpe met his match in Martin Browne Contemporary. A commercial relationship was struck and Pailthrope became a represented artist with his work being exhibited at the Martin Brown Contemporary stand during the Art Fair. You can keep up to date with all the latest Art Month news by subscribing to their eNews or follow them on Facebook.
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Adelaide Field Visit
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In mid-August, Tamara was invited to give a seminar in Adelaide as part of Craftsouth’s INFORM program of specially tailored professional development events that expose local practitioners to new ideas and skills development. Piggybacking on this invitation, Tamara gave lectures to students at both the Adelaide Central School of Art and the South Australian School of Art at the University of SA. While there she also had valuable catch up chats with colleagues at the JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation.
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Arts Participation Incubator
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Participation is definitely the buzz and the Arts and Entertainment Management (AEM) Program in the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University has been developing a proposal for a new centre currently called the Arts Participation Incubator. A pilot program and feasibility study have been funded to develop innovative ways for arts leaders to enliven cultural organisations through participative audience engagement. Tamara was invited to join the Arts Participation Incubator Reference Group and attended a meeting in Melbourne in early August while there for the Melbourne Art Fair.
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‘Roomies’ visit
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Following Tamara’s participation in the forum organised by Accessible Arts to discuss Supported Studios (creative environments that supports the individual practice of visual artists with disability), she visited the ‘Roomies’ facility at the Addison Road complex in Marrickville, Sydney to see a supported studio in action. roomiesartspace.blogspot.com.au
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Understanding Competitions: Winning isn’t everything
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This was the topic of a forum delivered on 28th August at the Gunnery building in Woolloomooloo, as part of NAVA’s program of public forums funded by Arts NSW. Panel participants were Anne Zahalka, one of Australia’s most prolific and highly regarded photomedia artists, Joanne Teng, solicitor, Arts Law Centre of Australia and NAVA’s Tamara Winikoff.
In this session the experts drilled down into the pros and cons of competitions; what is art industry best practice, what to look out for on entry forms; legal consequences associated with competition rules; and an artist’s perspective on the challenges and rewards that can come from competition entry.
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Artists’ Rights
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Tamara gave this lecture to Masters of Arts Administration students at COFA in Sydney, giving them pause to think about responsibilities on both sides.
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Creative Neighbourhoods Roundtable
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Several NAVA staff participated in this all day event organised by freelance arts consultant, Kevin Murray with the aim to devise strategies to promote cultural partnerships between Australia and other countries in the region. A diverse group of participants with a wide range of expertise reviewed draft Protocols for Producing Indigenous Visual Arts and explored how they might be extended to other cultures in the region, recommending strategies for their application. More to come from discussions in Ahmedabad, India to take place later in the year.
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Digital & Copyright
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NAVA attended a meeting last week organised by the Australian Copyright Council for its affiliates to discuss the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC)’s Review of Copyright and the Digital Economy Issues Paper just published. NAVA is likely to make a submission. The paper provides background information about copyright in the digital environment, highlights the issues so far identified in preliminary research and consultations, and outlines the principles that will shape the ALRC’s proposals for reform. It asks over 50 questions about how the current copyright framework operates for both commercial and creative enterprise and how current exceptions and statutory licences are working in the digital environment. The Issue Paper is available here:
Individuals and organisations are invited to make submissions in response to the questions contained in the Issues Paper with the closing date on 16 November 2012.
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NAVA Board meeting
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At its August meeting, the NAVA Board discussed proposals for ways NAVA might celebrate its 30th Anniversary next year. We know it’s hard to believe. The time has gone in a flash. We’d love to hear any ideas you might have that have minimal cost but are memorable, fun and involve the members.
Contact us on nava@visualarts.net.au with ‘NAVA 30’ in the subject line.
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Coming and Goings
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Sadly NAVA’s Online Communications Coordinator, Kim Hirst is leaving us to return to her homeland England. We wish her bon voyage and thank her for her valuable contribution to all things geek @ NAVA.
Still radiant after her month in New York is NAVA’s returned Brokerage and Strategy Manager Brianna Munting. And taking a month’s leave in UK, Tunisia and New York over the month of September, NAVA’s Executive Director Tamara Winikoff is hoping to get some of that glow.
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Applications closing soon for NAVA Synergy
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NAVA Synergy is an innovative new incubator program that brings artists, designers and crafts people together with leaders from other industries who will mentor them in an 8 week program to increase the artists’ knowledge, help them build networks and secure opportunities outside of traditional studio/gallery career pathways.
Over the course of 8 weeks the artist participants will be involved in a range of learning activities all designed to help them build relationships outside the arts sector, to hone their pitching and business development skills and to potentially progress their idea by securing partners/investors from outside the arts industry.
Participation is free in 2012. To find out more about the program or to apply click here.
Applications close on Monday 10 September 2012
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Enrolments now open: Connecting You in the Regions and Beyond
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The fourth and final module in the suite of NAVA Connect online courses for 2012 is ‘Connecting You in the Regions and Beyond’, a program dedicated to exploring and expanding the opportunities for regional artists.
This specifically tailored 7 week course will be facilitated by Merryn Spencer, a Creative Broker for Parramatta City Council and a former Regional Arts Development Officer at Orana Arts.
The course program will include lectures and feedback from four high profile guests: Caroline Vu, the NSW Manager for Artsupport, Kim Goldsmith founding member of Ochre Communications, Helen Bodycomb artist and master mosaicist and Anne Dunn former Deputy Chair of the Australia Council and public sector worker.
Come and learn from the experts and boost your career options.
Connecting You in the Regions and Beyond
Register: On NAVA’s website or phone NAVA on 02 9368 1900
Course Dates: 7 October – 25 November 2012 (7 weeks)
NAVA has two exciting job opportunities available.
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Online Communications Coordinator (3 days)
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Are you passionate about the arts and visual culture in Australia? Do you know your way around tweets, likes, pins and posts?
The Online Communications Coordinator connects NAVA to members and the arts community through NAVA’s websites and social media channels by researching, writing, editing and uploading content for all platforms. This crucial position contributes to the development, management and maintenance of NAVA services and maintains communication with our members.
We are looking for a creative person with an eye for detail who enjoys giving reign to their inner geek in the service of contemporary Australian visual arts, craft and design. You will understand how to create and engage online communities and be able to use your knowledge of online communications to build NAVA brand awareness and drive membership.
Applications close Monday 17 September
To download the job description and how to apply click here.
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ArtsCareer Coordinator (2 days)
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Promote the arts as a career and help artists grow. ArtsCareer is an online professional development resource for artists and arts educators working across all art forms. ArtsCareer posts up to date listings of workshops, events and online resources to help artists in all disciplines with their career development. The vital position coordinates input from all contributors and sources content on career development within the visual arts, craft, media and design sector.
This is a creative, part time opportunity that will ideally suit someone with an understanding of social media channels and how they can be effectively used to engage audiences and inform the community.
Applications close Sunday 9 September
To download the job description and how to apply click here.
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Sainsbury Sculpture Grant
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Deadline: 30 September 2012
NAVA has recently unveiled a new national grant scheme offering four grants of $2000 per annum for applicants working in the field of sculpture and installation. For more information click here.
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The Australian Artists' Grant (formerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant)
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Deadline: 15 November 2012
This grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups. Click here to apply
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The NSW Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 November 2012
This grant gives financial assistance to professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups. Click here to apply
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NAVA Quarterly
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The next NAVA Quarterly due for delivery in the coming days, will look at the issue of ‘Diversity’ with particular reference to the recent Australia Council Review Report and the impending National Cultural Policy. Contributors including Ben Eltham, Kate Larsen and Kiersten Fishburn examine and unpick the scope of the Review Report looking in particular at the necessity that any proposed changes should recognize and celebrate diversity and its expression within Australian visual arts, craft and design.
The September NAVA Quarterly will also feature artist profiles from David Capra, Mary Lou Pavlovic and Mandy Martin plus all the regular features.
We’d love to hear any comments or feedback you have regarding this issue or, any ideas for an upcoming issue - email micaela@visualarts.net.au
The front cover of the September NAVA Quarterly is an image by NSW artist Cigdem Aydemir who recently completed NAVA Connect’s online course ‘Art Business Basics’.
Cigdem Aydemir, Extremist Activity (ride), 2011. Photo: Alex Wisser. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Find your next opportunity at mfva.com.au
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One of the most exciting new benefits available to you as a NAVA Member is FREE access to NAVA’s newly launched Money for Visual Artists online. www.mfva.com.au has over 700 listings and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world.
It’s a simple and easy to use database that contains grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships and travel listings. MFVA online helps you identify art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and links to application forms. The site is updated regularly by users (organisations) and NAVA and contains loads of information about current opportunities.
To access MFVA Online, if you are a NAVA member simply log in to the MFVA site at the login box at the top right of the screen, using your current NAVA login details.
If you are not a NAVA member, you can purchase a 12 month subscription for $35 but you will need to use a login you create on the NAVA site.
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More NAVA Membership Benefits
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One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire is showing at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Picasso to Warhol is on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (from 16 June until 3 December 2012).
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado is on exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
Eugène Atgets’ Old Paris exhibition is on at the Art Gallery of NSW running from the 24 August until 4 November 2012;
Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons is showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia from August 31 until 4 November 2012.
Coming Soon
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December 2012 until the 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
Gaye Chapman has been selected as a finalist in this year’s King's School Art Prize Invitational for her work All This Useless Beauty III.
www.kings.edu.au/preparatory/art-show.php
Carolyn McKay is having a solo show 'Covert' at galleryeight, opening 14 September. The show features recent video works.
www.carolynmckay.com
Anna Lærkesen is running a forum on space and how it affects artists’ practices in Sydney. The forum, entitled Art & Space- co existence in Sydney, will take place on 22nd September from 12pm at 66 Oxford St., Darlinghurst. Meet in the foyer at 11.45am to be guided to the forum site. The forum will be chaired by renowned journalist Stephen Feneley and will include A.R.P Artists Residency Program founder, director & artist Annie Laerkesen, four 2012 ARP resident artists and a representative of the City of Sydney.
arpprojects.com
www.artandabout.com.au/events/show-and-tell-2
Andrea Przygonski has left for Chicago to start her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
www.andreaprzygonski.com.au
‘New Tracks’, an exhibition by Annette Simpson and Jack Randell is on display at Salerno Gallery in Sydney from 10 - 23 September. With more than 120 participants contributing to the collaborative works in New Tracks, the pictures in this exhibition embody collective identity, experience and the common-place. A completely new collaboration will be started on Opening Night 6-8pm Wednesday 12th September. ‘Fresh Tracks’ will feature bird footprints stamped onto paper. Photographed after each participant adds a new footprint, these actions will be made into an animated sequence video.
www.salernogallery.com
Karla Marchesi, has been awarded first prize in the inaugural Wilson Visual Arts Award for her painting More than ever.
Svetlana Bailey received a highly commended award for her work '12' in the Wilson Visual Arts Award.
wilsonartaward.com.au
NAVA members Naomi Ullmann, Petra Svoboda, Kendal Murray, Anita Larkin, Liz Shreeve and Sylvia Griffin have been selected as finalists in this year's Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
sculptureprize.woollahra.nsw.gov.au
NAVA members Izabela Pluta, Polixeni Papapetrou, Cherine Fahd and Rowan Conroy are finalists in this year’s Bowness Photography Prize.
www.mga.org.au/bowness-prize
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Cara-Ann Simpson has been awarded the University of Ballarat Emerging Artist Prize at the 2012 Flanagan Art Exhibition.
www.caraannsimpson.com
www.stpats.vic.edu.au/art_exhibition.php
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Vinnie Gracanin is putting together is first solo show in New York, entitled ‘Pencil Pusher’. Vinnie is working with renowned NYC curator Frankie Velez for a May/June 2013 launch in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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In her latest NAVA blog, Art Partners Program Officer Wanda Ariano tells the story of how an idea for an artistic collaboration from NAVA member Helen Seiver, resulted in the participants being flown to Melbourne to attend the opening of this year’s Rob McNamara Exhibition.
Art Partners is Bunbury’s inclusive arts program that matches people with disability (protégés), with mentors to participate in mainstream art classes and activities together. Since the program’s inception in 2011, Helen has fulfilled many roles, including, in Wanda’s words, those of “mentor, tutor, advisor, ideas generator and cheerleader”.
You can read Wanda’s story of Helen & the journey of the Art Partners at www.visualarts.net.au/navablogs/artpartners
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Online Communications Coordinator kim@visualarts.net.au.
September’s Featured Artist
This month's Featured Artist is Vipoo Srivilasa. Vipoo's works explore the inherent commonalities between the cultures of his native Thailand and new home of Australia. He mostly produces work in series, each exploring a theme that draws on his bicultural experiences, referencing his place between the two worlds.
Recently NAVA caught up with Vipoo to talk about his work and largest project to date, Thai Na Town - Little Oz
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NAVA: How would you describe your art practice?
Vipoo Srivilasa: Fun and fabulous!
NAVA: What first got you interested in ceramics and what do you enjoy about working in the medium?
VS: My first ceramic experience was at the College of Fine Arts, Thailand. It was not love at first sight, however I slowly grew to love ceramics as time went on.
During my time at the College of Fine Arts, I used to make fashion accessories such as necklaces and earrings from air-dry clay. This was very successful and led me to choose ceramics as a subject for both my undergraduate and masters degrees.
I enjoy the idea of turning humble clay into something fabulous! The excitement of opening the kiln is a big draw and after many years of working with clay, I still get excited every time I open a kiln. I also found working with clay turned me back to kid again; it's always fun playing with clay.
NAVA: You’ve said that your works explore the commonalities between your native Thailand and Australia. How have you found the experience of bringing together two cultural narratives? What are the similarities you’ve found? Have any surprised you?
VS: Once someone said to me that creative people often have one strong idea throughout their life but have so many different ways of presenting the idea. I found I relate to this statement very well. Living in both worlds has enabled me to find a wealth of inspiration from both cultures and bringing them together is a real joy!
I found both Thai and Aussie people to be very friendly and laid back.
NAVA: Do you have a favourite work or a work you particularly enjoyed creating?
VS: Most of the time my favourite piece is the one I am working on. Then once it’s done and finished, I create the next favourite. Having said that I also enjoy creating works that interact with audiences, such as the Roop-Rote-Ruang (Taste Touch Tell) project. For this work I created a 105-piece dinner set on which I served a five-course meal in a private residence, telling a story to the audience whilst I served the food. The project emphasises the role of ceramics in sensory experience and embraces the Buddhist philosophy.
Currently I enjoy exploring the possibility of using clay as an interactive medium and developing my work into relational art. I’m also beginning to expand my practice, incorporating other art forms into my ceramic work.
NAVA: What are you working on at the moment?
VS: My latest and possibly largest project to date is Thai Na Town - Little Oz, which aims to address experiences of migration and cultural shifts, whilst promoting the importance of culture and the places we call 'home'.
For this project I’m talking to Thai and Australian expats to find out what they miss the most about their hometown and then helping them to create a ceramic object reflective of their answer. Whilst making the object I encourage them to share their experiences of migration with me. Afterwards the object is sent to the person they miss the most at home.
The project comprises two parts, the first of which took place in Sydney in June this year in association with the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. The second will take place in Bangkok this November, in association with the Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University.
NAVA: Where can we see your work?
VS: My website www.vipoo.com shows a comprehensive range of my work. However you can see some of my work at Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane www.edwinacorlette.com and Nellie Caston Gallery, Melbourne www.nelliecastangallery.com. If you happen to be in the UK, you can also see my work at Adrian Sassoon www.adriansassoon.com.
Vipoo's NAVA Artist Gallery page:
www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/vipoo
Interested in being the next Featured Artist?
Just create an artist gallery on the NAVA website and email a link to kim@visualarts.net.au. All requests are reviewed by NAVA staff on a monthly basis.
Image L-R: Vipoo Srivilasa in his St Kilda studio. Photo: Andrew Barcham | Vipoo Srivilasa 'Mickey's Masquerade'.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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August 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the August 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- NAVA Out and About
- Skills development
- Grants
- About NAVA
- NAVA Members
- Members' News
- August Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous ebulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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NAVA petition
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Your last chance to support fair payment of artists’ fees
Sign the Petition today!
To help us reach our target of 5,000 signatures in support of fair payment of artists’ fees, NAVA urges you to sign the petition (here), if you haven’t already done so, and help us spread the word by encouraging everyone you know to get behind this vital campaign. We are getting close to 3,000 signatures but we still have a way to go.
The petition calls on the Government to mandate payment of artists’ fees for art work exhibited in public galleries either on loan or commissioned from artists, at the rates recommended in NAVA’s Code of Practice for the Professional Australian Visual Arts, Craft and Design Sector.
As you may be aware, NAVA has always been a strong advocate for artists’ right to be paid at an appropriate level for their work and the contribution they make to the cultural life of the community. Though some galleries do pay at the recommended minimum level or above, many others still do not.
In order to enable small to medium galleries and other exhibition spaces to meet their obligations, the petition also calls for the Government to allocate funds to provide these galleries where needed, with adequate additional financial support specified for this purpose.
It is intended that this petition will be presented to Arts Minister, Simon Crean in August to ask for this new contribution towards artists’ financial sustainability to be included as part of the forthcoming National Cultural Policy, promised for delivery later this year.
Please sign the petition here and send out through your networks to others who may be willing to join in. The fast approaching deadline is August 6th 2012.
www.change.org/petitions/australian-commonwealth-government-mandated-payment-of-fair-artists-fees
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Australia Council Review report
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The recommendations of the recent review of the Australia Council would see a radical restructure of the organisation, splitting responsibility with the Federal Government’s Office for the Arts, removing the artform boards and diluting the long cherished principles of arm’s length funding and peer assessment.
While some of the recommendations including the need for research to underpin policy development and the removal of the efficiency dividend obligation are welcomed, the arts industry is very concerned about the potential loss of independence and deep artform knowledge in the grant assessment process.
Representing ArtsPeak, the confederation of national peak arts organisations, on 18th June, NAVA’s Executive Director, Tamara Winikoff together with Julie Dyson, the head of Ausdance had meetings with the Arts Minister Simon Crean’s adviser and the head of the Office for the Arts expressing our concern over many of the proposed measures and offering alternatives. It is hoped that Mr Crean will listen sympathetically to the voice of the arts sector.
To read NAVA’s submission go to www.visualarts.net.au/sites/default/files/nava_final_ozco_review_reponse080612.pdf
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Small to medium arts organisations advocacy
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Also on behalf of ArtsPeak, NAVA and Ausdance have been leading efforts to see more emphasis on and support for the work of the small to medium (S2M) arts organisation through the National Cultural Policy.
While the major performing arts organisations continue to secure regular funding increases (currently at 60% of the Australia Council’s budget), the rest of the arts infrastructure struggles to maintain stability. Requested is an increase of at least 10% of S2M funding, building to 25% over 4 years.
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National arts curriculum for schools
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As a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE), NAVA welcomed the draft of The Australian Curriculum: The Arts, released on 9 July by Schools Minister, Peter Garrett.
From 2013 Australian students will have an entitlement to learn in, through and about the five arts subjects of dance, drama, media arts, music and the visual arts from Years F–6. Students in Years 7–10 will be given art form choices in secondary school in line with available resources.
NAAE made the point that there is still work to be done in refining the curriculum, and affirmed that each arts subject association would be working with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) to achieve further revisions. NAAE is also working on seeing an improvement to teachers’ pre- and in-service education and the resources required to teach this new curriculum.
To find out more about the draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation to Year 10 go to: www.acara.edu.au/arts.html
The draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts for Foundation to Year 10 is open for public consultation until 23 September 2012. To provide feedback go to consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au
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Immunity from Seizure
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NAVA was gratified to see the announcement by Arts Minister Simon Crean that new legislation to stop the seizure of cultural objects that are on loan from overseas organisations to Australia’s major cultural institutions, will be introduced during the Spring Session of Parliament. Without this guarantee, the major galleries have been finding it increasingly difficult to secure overseas loans in case there is a legal challenge about ownership and provenance.
Last year NAVA had joined with the major galleries in writing submissions advocating the need for this legislation because until now there has been nothing in place to prevent cultural objects from being seized. This will remove the barriers to Australian galleries borrowing works from overseas institutions and individuals.
For more information visit www.arts.gov.au/consultations/immunity-from-seizure
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Charity Classification for Arts Organisations
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Tamara Winikoff was invited to a lunch organised by KPMG for David Bradbury, federal Assistant Treasurer. She took the opportunity to ask about the possibility of arts organisations being included in the definition of a charity as Public Benefit Institutions (PBI) for tax purposes. Unfortunately the Minister was not sympathetic to this idea.
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Australian Design Alliance (AdA)
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Following its successful fundraising efforts, the AdA has been working on its top priority, a national policy for design.
The AdA hosted two events that focused on sector consultation about what a national design policy could contain. The first event was held in Brisbane on 8 May at the State Library of Queensland and co-hosted with the Integrated Design Commission of SA and the QLD Design Council.
This event was well attended by sector representatives, government and industry. AdA Patron Michael Bryce AM AE gave the keynote address and other speakers included Julianne Schultz, Tim Horton, Dorte Eckland, Andrew Ritchie and Sam Bucolo.
The second event was held in Sydney on 7 June as part of Vivid Ideas. Oliver Kratzer, Tim Horton, Terri Winter and Glen Barry all spoke about what a national design policy could do for designers.
These events captured some ideas from attendees in the form of sketches and words. They will be available on the AdA’s new website due for launch shortly.
www.australiandesignalliance.com
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NAVA at Melbourne Art Fair
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1 – 5 August 2012, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
NAVA is heading to Melbourne for the much loved biennial Melbourne Art Fair. Make sure you come and visit NAVA’s stand; we’re cooking up some fabulous ideas and we’ll have special discounts and offers available throughout the Fair. Plus get your hands on some of these fab badges, which we're giving away for free throughout the Fair.
Where to find NAVA
NAVA’s stand is located on the balcony level, near the main entrance (near the café).
Art Fair Tickets
Adults $30 or Concession $22. Click here to purchase your tickets to Melbourne Art Fair 2012.
For more information visit Melbourne Art Fair's website at www.artfair.com.au
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NAVA Brokerage
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Arts Queensland provided funding to NAVA to explore the potential development and delivery of a brokerage program for Queensland artists.
Initially, NAVA undertook a study to assess Queensland sector needs and identify potential participants for roundtables. This involved a senior staff member from NAVA undertaking a series of meetings with key Queensland organisations and individuals across the visual arts, craft and design, corporate and government sectors.
Following these meetings, NAVA’s Executive Director and Brokerage and Strategy Manager convened two roundtables in Brisbane and Cairns.
A selection of business and arts leaders from across Queensland were invited to participate in these roundtable discussions exploring mechanisms for developing creativity, innovation and opportunities for Queensland businesses and artists.
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NAVA Synergy
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Funded by Arts NSW, NAVA is developing the ‘NAVA Synergy’ program to be launched later in the year in NSW. It will offer an immersive program for selected artists wanting to access new opportunities in the creative industries and beyond.
More details soon.
Image: Is Art Work an Oxymoron? NAVA Public Forum, Tasmanian School of Art (March 2011) Photo: Iakovos Amperidis
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Pinterest and Social Media Engagement
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On 26 June, with the support of the Copyright Agency Limited, NAVA ran a sell out session in Sydney discussing the issues of social media and its impact on artists. The presenters were Zoë Rodriguez, Mandy King, Bridie Connell. 50 attendees participated in a lively debate that covered the use of social media, one artist’s experience and associated copyright issues. This session was filmed and will be edited for vodcast on NAVA’s website.
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The Power of People
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Held on 16 July this Sydney event was undertaken in conjunction with SAMAG. Presented by organisational psychology lecturer and Art Month Artistic Director, Eliza Muldoon, it covered key issues of motivating others, learning and leadership. From the 28 people who attended, the feedback was extremely positive.
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Other NAVA Talks
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In June, Tamara gave a public talk at Metro Arts in Brisbane entitled ‘What Every Artist Should Know’. It was enthusiastically received by an audience of around 50 people.
While in Melbourne, Tamara gave a lecture entitled ‘After Art School’ in two tertiary institutions, first to students at Victorian College of the Arts’ Art School and then to students at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) TAFE.
At the invitation of Multicultural Arts Victoria, that evening, Tamara followed up with a public talk for artists from non-English speaking backgrounds entitled ‘Artists’ Rights and Industry Issues’.
At an all day forum held at Sydney College of the Arts, Tamara made a presentation as part of an arts industry panel discussing supported studios for artists with intellectual disabilities.
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Understanding Competitions: Winning isn’t everything
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Time: 6pm – 8pm
Date: 28th August
Venue: Level 2, The Gunnery
Entry charge: $6.50 (members) or $16.50
Book online: http://navacompetitions.eventbrite.com/
Competitions and prizes are an important part of the visual and media arts, craft and design ecology. They offer artists a great opportunity for public recognition, audience development and revenue generation. Success in competitions can play an important role in boosting an artist’s career prospects.
For arts organisations, competitions are often a key element in their schedule of work and can add to their public profile and help them reach new audiences. If the prize is acquisitive, it can be an effective way of enhancing a gallery’s collection.
However, there are many important issues that both those who enter and those who run competitions should be aware of.
In this session NAVA is bringing together a panel of experts to drill down into the pros and cons of competitions; what is art industry best practice, what to look out for on entry forms; legal consequences associated with competition rules; and an artist’s perspective on the challenges that can come from competition entry.
Contributing to the discussion will be:
- Tamara Winikoff – Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
- Anne Zahalka - one of Australia’s most prolific and highly regarded photomedia artists who has produced some of Australia’s most iconic images. Included in every major national collection, Anne has generated thirteen major series of works over the last thirty years.
- Joanne Teng, Solicitor, Arts Law Centre of Australia.
Image: Anne Zahalka, Santa’s Kingdom Christmas Tunnel, Fox Studios, Sydney, 2004. Image courtesy of Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery and Arc One Gallery Melbourne.
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NAVA Connect Online Courses
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Last chance to enrol: Expanding Your Career!
Running for 7-weeks and starting on Saturday 18 August, Expanding your Career is for professional artists looking to develop their skills to branch out beyond their studio and gallery practice to seek opportunities to collaborate and engage with the broader creative industries and the commercial sector.
The Course is facilitated by Lisa Cahill, the Executive Director of the Australian Design Alliance (AdA) a highly skilled professional who has worked in various capacities in the arts and creative industries: a creative producer in theatre and the visual arts: a business development and fundraising consultant for arts organisations; a research analyst at the Australia Council for the Arts; and a sessional lecturer at the College of Fine Arts (COFA).
Expanding Your Career will include lectures and feedback from three high profile guests Alison Carroll, former Founding Director of Asialink, Marla Guppy director of Guppy & Associates and Terri Winter founding member of ‘top3 by design’ and judge for the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Awards and the Australian International Design Awards.
Come and learn from the experts who can help you shape your career in new and exciting directions.
Expanding Your Career Details
To find out more and to register go to www.visualarts.net.au/whatson/onlinecourses/expandingyourcareer
or phone NAVA on (02) 9368 1900
Course dates: 18 August – 7 October 2012 (7 weeks)
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WAH Catalogue
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The ‘We Are Here’ (WAH) catalogue will be formally launched at the Melbourne Art Fair in August but copies are available from NAVA now. This 140-page publication combines critical thinking on artist run initiatives with exhibition and project evaluations and documentation. It is one of the outcomes of the very successful symposium NAVA held last year for artist run initiatives in collaboration with First Draft.
To order your copy go to http://www.visualarts.net.au/shop/publications RRP $25 or $15 for NAVA members.
Image: Ella Barclay. 'Maelstrom Studies'. Artspace 2011. (February 2012 NSW Artists' Grant recipient).
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Australian Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 August 2012
This grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups.
To find out more and to apply go to www.visualarts.net.au/grants/australian-artists-grant
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NSW Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 August 2012
This grant gives financial assistance to professional visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups.
To find out more and to apply go to www.visualarts.net.au/grants/nsw-artists-grant
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Sainsbury Sculpture Grant
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Details of this new grant managed by NAVA will be announced shortly. Keep an eye on NAVA’s website for the terms and to access an application form.
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Staff changes
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Emma Thomson, NAVA’s General Manager resigned in June to take up a position as Assistant Finance Officer at Hassell architects.
Taking her place is Jill Gientzotis, who has had extensive administrative experience. Jill has held senior positions in vocational education and training in NSW and for the last ten years has been Director of Gientzotis Consulting, working with remote Aboriginal community councils and Indigenous owned Art Centres. She previously worked with NAVA on the development of the National Indigenous Art Commercial Code of Conduct.
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Find your next opportunity at mfva.com.au
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One of the most exciting new benefits available to you as a NAVA Member is FREE access to NAVA’s newly launched Money for Visual Artists online. www.mfva.com.au has over 700 listings and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world.
It is a simple and easy to use database that contains grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships and travel listings. MFVA online helps you identify art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and links to application forms. The site is updated regularly by users (organisations) and NAVA, and contains up to date information about current opportunities.
To access MFVA Online, if you are a NAVA member simply log in to the MFVA site at the login box at the top right of the screen, using your current NAVA login details.
If you are not a NAVA member, you can purchase a 12 month subscription for $35 but you will need to use a login you create on the NAVA website.
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More NAVA Membership Benefits
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One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state art museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Picasso to Warhol will be on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (from 16 June until 3 December 2012).
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
Coming soon
Eugène Atgets’ Old Paris exhibition will be on at the Art Gallery of NSW and will run from the 24 August until 4 November 2012;
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December 2012 until the 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
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Members' News
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Amanda Donohue is participating in ‘Leave Nothing but Prints’, an exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, which runs to 2 September 2012.
Katie Lenanton recently curated HERE&NOW12, the inaugural annual exhibition of early-career, contemporary Western Australian artists, which opens at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on the 10 August 2012. The exhibition surveys the activities of artist run initiatives (ARIs) and places craft-based practices and DIY endeavours within the scope of the Gallery, presenting an experimental and interconnected system of art making unique to Western Australia in 2012.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s work Three Worlds was presented at a State Lunch at Parliament House in February this year to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Australia and Thailand diplomatic relationship. Another work, Not For Sure, is currently on display at the MCA until 16 September 2012, as part of the 18th Biennale of Sydney.
Santina Amato has been awarded a residency at Artspace, Sydney, which will take place from October to December 2013 and has also just received a New Work Early Career Grant from the Australia Council. Santina recently returned from exhibiting at Currents 2012, an International New Media Art Festival held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Gaye Chapman is a finalist in three major national art prizes this year: The Black Swan Portrait Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award Touring Exhibition and the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing.
www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/gayechapman
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Online Communications Coordinator kim@visualarts.net.au.
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Featured Artist
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This month's Featured Artist is Canberra based Alexandra Gillespie. Alexandra is a video/media artist whose work explores themes of place and history.
Recently NAVA talked to Alexandra about her recent projects and what she's been doing as part of her PhD at the School of Art, Photography and Media Arts, Australian National University.
NAVA: Tell us more about your art practice.
Alexandra Gillespie: Existing at the cross roads of media and visual arts practice, my practice includes video, photographic, installation, interactive and collaborative works, within which themes of place, memory and history are explored.
My work has formed around thinking about place and belonging, my relationship to place, a sense of location/ dislocation, memory associated with particular sites, intersections of personal and cultural histories and exploring a sense of home and belonging as an individual and with particular communities.
I work on solo projects and in collaboration with others and have worked within a range of contexts such as public galleries, commercial galleries, site specific performance and media environments for museum exhibition.
NAVA: What draws you to create works that respond to particular sites? And what is it about a site that might draw your attention?
AG: I’m often interested in the history and resonance of a site or personal material objects. Questions arise about who has lived there, what has been their experience/story, what traces or objects have been left and what events have happened at that particular location.
Broadly I’m interested in what is no longer visible or present and how it can be given presence or unearthed and layered into the present.
I’m also drawn to the physical features of a site: if it’s a building then I’m interested in the architectural design, materials, relationship to landscape and if it’s landscape then it’s the particular form, scale and feeling of emotional resonance within me, I’m exploring.
I’m also interested in liminal, transitional spaces; the edges or borders of a place.
NAVA: Where would you most like to do a site specific work or installation?
After the experience of working a long way from home in Central Australia I want to work on something closer to home and have been thinking about a number of sites – from a mountain to an institutional building - in Canberra where I live.
NAVA: Favourite work or work you particularly enjoyed creating?
AG: I enjoyed the process of working on Insulate the Future, a project I undertook over nine months in 2010 for an exhibition at Gallery Smith, Melbourne. The exhibition was held about a month before the birth of our second child so in a way the show had a double deadline around it.
The work consists of six electric blankets with house plans printed to scale on them via a large-format inkjet UV solvent print. I enjoyed the processes of researching and finding housing plans, reading about the increasing scale of houses in Australia and the ecological and energy consequences of people living at that scale. The process of research and writing the short texts in the work was also satisfying.
Through this body of work I became interested in asking questions surrounding our experience of home; examining how housing design is changing over time and how many new home designs reduce private exterior space and expand interior space.
Within the differing volumes of green space around the house plans I wrote personal, hand written meditations about home and private green space and also drew from media and academic writings; picking up on catch phrases and key notions covered in the discussion around sustainability, design futures and the current ecological crisis.
NAVA: What are you working on at the moment?
AG: At the moment I’m writing about Australian media art installation and place. This is a focused six-month window of writing and interviewing artists, which will go towards completing my PhD at the School of Art, Australian National University next year.
In writing on other artists’ work I have drawn on theories of place, site specificity and histories of media arts, which will no doubt inform new bodies of work into the future.
In mid 2013 I plan to exhibit the work created during my PhD and to show a new photographic series currently in development.
NAVA: Where can we see your work?
AG: My work can be seen on my web site www.alexandragillespie.net and Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandragillespie/ and in mid 2013 at the ANU, School of Art Gallery.
Alexandra's NAVA Artist Gallery page:
www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/alexandragillespie
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July 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the July 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
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In this issue:
- Advocacy
- About NAVA
- NAVA Out and About
- Grants
- NAVA Members
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- July’s Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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Sign NAVA’s Petition about payment of artists’ fees
NAVA invites you to sign the attached petition (here) intended for presentation to Federal Arts Minister, the Hon. Simon Crean MP.
The petition calls for the mandating of payment of artists’ fees for art work exhibited in public galleries either on loan or commissioned from artists, at the rates recommended in NAVA’s Code of Practice for the Professional Australian Visual Arts, Craft and Design Sector.
As you may be aware, NAVA has always been a strong advocate for artists’ right to be paid at an appropriate level for their work and the contribution they make to the cultural life of the community. Though some galleries do pay at the recommended minimum level or above, many others still do not.
In order to enable small to medium galleries and other exhibition spaces to meet their obligations, the petition also calls for the Government to provide these galleries where needed, with adequate additional financial support specified for this purpose.
It is intended that this petition will be presented to Minister Crean in August to ask for this new contribution towards artists’ financial viability to be included as part of the forthcoming National Cultural Policy, promised for delivery later this year.
Please sign the petition here and send out through your networks to others who may be willing to join in. The deadline is July 31st 2012.
Image courtesy Kim Goodwin.
Canberra Meetings
Representing ArtsPeak (the confederation of Australian peak arts organisations), NAVA’s Executive Director Tamara Winikoff and Julie Dyson, CEO of Ausdance National had interesting meetings in Canberra with the Arts Minister Simon Crean’s Adviser, Helen O’Neil and with Sally Basser, First Assistant Secretary, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. With Helen O’Neil, we talked through various concerns that ArtsPeak members had with some of the recommendations in the recent Review of the Australia Council.
The same issues were raised with Sally Basser who is responsible for cultural policy, arts and cultural funding programs and relationships with arts statutory bodies and companies. Since she has the task of following up on the arts industry’s responses to the recent Review of the Australia Council, Julie and Tamara went through the pros and cons in more detail. Sally also showed interest in NAVA’s intention to seek a commitment of new funding for mandated payment of artists’ fees by all public galleries. She saw a similarity with the Public Lending Right for authors each time their work is taken out on loan from a public library.
New Australia Council Leaders Welcomed by Arts Sector
NAVA warmly welcomed the federal Arts Minister, Simon Crean’s announcement of the appointment of Rupert Myer AM as Chair of the Australia Council and Robyn Archer AO as the Deputy Chair.
Rupert Myer brings his long experience in business, philanthropy and various leadership roles in the arts. As Chair of the Inquiry into the Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Sector, Mr Myer consulted closely with key organisations like NAVA. From 2002 the resulting Visual Arts and Craft Strategy delivered an increase of around $12 million in annual funding from federal, state and territory governments which ensured the sustainability of the sector.
Robyn Archer has extensive experience as an artistic director, writer, advocate and most importantly as an artist herself, and brings a deep understanding of how the arts ecology works and the needs and contribution of Australian artists. Her strong voice will further help to bring the arts to prominence in Australian public discourse.
NAVA also expressed its thanks to the outgoing Chair of the Australia Council, James Strong for his six years of service to the Australian arts community and to Deputy Chair John Denton.
Arts Curriculum for Schools
Continuing its work to ensure that children get an arts rich education, the National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) met on 25th June at the Gunnery building in Woolloomooloo, Sydney where NAVA has its office. The purpose of the meeting was to talk about finding support for the development of inspiring teaching resources and the importance of effective preparation of teachers to take on the role. We confirmed that the draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts (Foundation to Year 10) is scheduled for release for public consultation on Monday, 9 July 2012.
Australian Design Alliance (ADA)
As part of the Vivid Festival in Sydney, on 6th June the ADA held a very successful forum, ‘Driving Australian Design – What a National Design Policy Could Do for Australia’. The fully booked event was presented in the Lounge at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney with a top lineup of speakers: Timothy Horton, CEO of the South Australian Integrated Design Commission; Terri Winter Managing of Top 3 by Design; and Glen Barry NSW President of the Graphic Design Association; and chaired by Oliver Kratzer President of the Design Institute of Australia.
Australian Commercial Galleries Association
Tamara had a working lunch with the Australian Commercial Galleries Association State Chair Victoria/Tasmania, Anna Pappas, Director of the Melbourne based Anna Pappas Gallery. What was discussed was a possible collaboration on building the capacity of the ACGA and its important work on encouraging ethical practice amongst the private gallery fraternity. Given some of the recent media coverage of highly questionable actions by some dealers, this continues to be a hot topic.
The Power of People Forum
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When: 6 - 8pm, Monday 16 July 2012
Where: Level 2, The Gunnery, 43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo
Price: $6.50 NAVA/SAMAG members and $16.50 for non-members
Numbers are limited. To register for this important event visit http://navapowerofpeople.eventbrite.com
The arts industry is full of creative, passionate people who address a range of challenges often with limited resources. For those endeavouring to achieve their creative aims, the ability to motivate, develop and inspire is crucial. The Power of People forum, organised by NAVA and the Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group (SAMAG), is presented by
Organisational Psychology lecturer and Art Month Artistic Director Eliza Muldoon and will cover key issues of motivating others, learning and leadership.
An expert in the area of people management within the arts, Eliza will help participants with understanding theoretical concepts and the practical applications of these concepts. It will demonstrate how working effectively with others can enhance your practice and career. This session is a compacted version of the very successful workshop held by SAMAG in 2011. It is intended for those who were unable to attend previously, or for those newly interested in the area. SAMAG will then be holding a second workshop on July 30 to continue the exploration of organizational psychology, focusing on decision making, conflict and communication. This second masterclass will allow participants time for more discussion and peer learning.
Insurance for Curators, Installers, Registrars, Conservators and Arts Administrators (CIRCA)
Just launched is NAVA’s new CIRCA membership which offers access to a comprehensive insurance package for independent curators, installers, registrars, conservators and arts administrators.
The comprehensive insurance package covers:
· Public Liability $20,000,000
· Professional Indemnity extension $5,000,000
· Property in custody or control $100,000
· Tenants Liability $20,000,000.
In addition to the regular NAVA member benefits, an extra major incentive of CIRCA membership is access to a discounted rate on membership of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which gives free or discounted entry to most major galleries and museums around the world.
Click here to apply for the CIRCA membership.
NAVA Connect (NAVA in partnership with COFA Online)
The first two NAVA Connect courses have been a sell out so don’t forget to sign up early if you are interested in the next two as places are going quickly!
Running for 7-weeks and starting on Saturday 18 August, ‘Expanding you Career’ is for professional artists looking to develop their skills to branch out beyond their studio and gallery practice to seek opportunities to collaborate and engage with the broader creative industries and the commercial sector. Click here to enrol.
‘Connecting You in the Regions and Beyond’ is the final course in the NAVA Connect suite this year and is dedicated to exploring the challenges and opportunities for regional artists. This course starts on Sunday 7 October and will run for 7-weeks. Click here to enrol.
As a NAVA member you get a special discounted rate of only $100 (normally $140) for any of the ‘NAVA Connect’ online courses.
Art Business Basics has just wrapped up with a brilliant group of participants who worked hard on developing their business skills and producing some fantastic business plans. Participants really felt the benefits of this course in providing expert advice, information and a community of learning even when they were juggling lots of deadlines in their lives. Artists said they “feel more directioned” and “the course was fantastic. I certainly am much more aware than 7 weeks ago!”. A big special thank you goes to the guest lecturers Brian Tucker from Brian Tucker Accounting, Fiona James from the Australian Copyright Council, Sam Chester Founder of Queens St Studios and Fraser Studios and Simeon Beckett, human rights lawyer, who all generously gave their time, tips and expertise to all who participated.
Brisbane and Cairns
In developing ideas about how new programs for artists could be piloted in Queensland, NAVA’s Brokerage and Strategy Manager Brianna Munting undertook extensive research and consultation. She travelled to Queensland in April to hold a series of meetings with a variety of entities including artists, arts organisations and a range of other bodies which could be brought in as participants in a program to develop new career opportunities for artists in non-arts sectors. In June, Brianna was joined in Queensland by Tamara for roundtable discussions with selected participants to develop the ideas further. These have been submitted to Arts Queensland for its consideration.
Tamara stayed for an extra day to have further meetings with representatives from Arts Queensland, Artisan and QUT Creative Industries and to give a public talk ‘What Every Artist Needs to Know’ at Metro Arts, which was enthusiastically attended by about 50 people.
Canberra
To further development of the ideas broached at a teleconference early in June for a joint national craft strategy, representatives from NAVA and the Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) met a couple of weeks later for a planning day in Canberra. It was a fruitful meeting with ideas consolidating around a series of strategies to build the profile and capacity of the craft/design sector.
NAVA Forums
With funding from Arts NSW, NAVA recently held a number of successful professional development events across NSW.
On June 13th, Projects Manager Kim Goodwin presented two workshops in Albury focussing on practical strategies and information for early career artists. The first, ‘Early Career Artist Development’ covered topics including marketing, project management, budgeting and key issues every artist needs to know. In the afternoon the group engaged in a ‘Career Marketing for Artists’ session which discussed creating a successful resume, how to interview, how to build relationships with galleries and how to use social media to build a positive personal brand. Feedback from both sessions was very positive and NAVA has been asked to return in 2013.
On June 26th NAVA held a sold out professional development forum in Sydney titled ‘Sharing Your Canvas: Pinterest and Social Media Engagement for Artists’. Participating in the forum was Mandy King, a public relations and social media expert, Bridie Connell, an artist who uses social media in her practice and Zoë Rodriguez from the Copyright Agency. This engaging session covered not only how social media can be used to build audiences for art, but also the associated sometimes tricky copyright issues. As the topic is one that generated such interest, NAVA is exploring running a second session on more advanced social media issues and techniques. Excerpts from the first session will soon be posted on the Arts Career You Tube channel.
Winners Selected:
The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship winners were selected at the assessors’ meeting on Monday this week. The applications were so good that the Foundation decided to give not the usual four, but this year six grants to send some lucky young artists off on a professional development adventure mostly overseas. The winners will be announced at the Freedman exhibition showing the work of this year’s winners along with that of returning scholars from 2010. The exhibition will be opening on the 4th September and running until the 15th September at Kudos Gallery in Sydney. All welcome to see the before and after from a travel and learning experience for artists at the beginning of their careers.
Winners Announced: The Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award 2012
NAVA and Art & Australia are pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award:
Alasdair McLuckie is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice encompasses drawing, craft and sculpture. McLuckie explores mythology and folklore with an aesthetic that references modernist design.
Britt Salt is concerned with creating spatial experiments where line, pattern, form and space intertwine. Her works often employ repetitive lines created from lengths of tape, or layers of industrial mesh suspended from the ceiling, to make unexpected forms for a viewer to encounter. Salt was born in Western Australia and is now based in Melbourne.
Tim Woodward is a Queensland based artist who works with a range of mediums and forms including film, audio recordings and installation. Often operating outside of the studio, Woodward is concerned with renegotiating an understanding of the art object and its place in the world.
Patrick Francis’s vivid portraits and still life installations in bright blocks of colour explore aspects of his personal experience. Francis is a Melbourne-based artist who has been working with Arts Projects Australia since 2009.
The work of one of these lucky winners will be purchased for the Art & Australia collection. The collection will be exhibited at Newcastle Art Gallery in November 2012 and will tour to selected regional galleries during 2013- 2014.
The Australian Artists' Grant (formerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant)
Deadline: 15 August 2012
This grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups. Click here to apply
The NSW Artists' Grant
Deadline: 15 August 2012
This grant gives financial assistance to professional visual arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups. Click here to apply
Sainsbury Sculpture Grant
Details of this new grant managed by NAVA will be announced shortly. Keep an eye on NAVA’s website for the terms and to access an application form.
Find your next opportunity at mfva.com.au
One of the most exciting new benefits available to you as a NAVA Member is FREE access to NAVA’s newly launched Money for Visual Artists online. www.mfva.com.au has over 700 listings and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world.
It is a simple and easy to use database that contains grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships and travel listings. MFVA online helps you identify art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and links to application forms. The site is updated regularly by users (organisations) and NAVA and contains up to date information about current opportunities.
To access MFVA Online, if you are a NAVA member simply log in to the MFVA site at the login box at the top right of the screen, using your current NAVA login details.
If you are not a NAVA member, you can purchase a 12 month subscription for $35 but you will need to use a login you create on the NAVA site.
More NAVA Membership Benefits
One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
SOUTH AUSTRALIA ILLUSTRATED: Colonial painting in the Land of Promise at the Art Gallery of South Australia (from 2 June until 5 August 2012)
Fred Williams Infinite Horizons at the Ian Potter Gallery (from April 7 until 22 July 2012);
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Picasso to Warhol will be on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (from 16 June until 3 December 2012).
Coming soon
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
Eugène Atgets’ Old Paris exhibition will be on at the Art Gallery of NSW and will run from the 24 August until 4 November 2012;
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December 2012 until the 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
Peter Sharrock has been selected as one of 50 artists chosen to represent Australia in the Festival of Pacific Arts.
Julie Shepherd’s exhibition Transpire will be on display at the Logan Gallery from the 27th of July to 4th of August 2012. The exhibition shows new porcelain art works inspired by the beauty and fragility of life along with its strength and resilience.
Harrie Fasher’s exhibition A Sculptors Portrait opens at Maunsell Wickes Gallery on the 1st of August. Harrie is currently on a residency in Iceland at the Baer Art Centre.
Louisa Dawson was recently awarded the UWS Sculpture Prize for her work New Arrivals. From August to November this year Louisa will be undertaking an Australia Council Residency in Liverpool, UK and then from November to February 2013 she will be undertaking a residency at Otte1 Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany.
In the recent Queen's Birthday Honours List Michael Meszaros was awarded an OAM "for services to the visual arts as a sculptor".
Natalie McCarthy is participating in and curating a show of six female Australian Artists in Serbia this month. Resonance, Everything Touches Everything is on show at the International Art Studio “Radovan Trnavac Mića” in Valjevo.
Josephine Telfer’s exhibition Billabong was on show at the Stephen McLaughlan Gallery in Melbourne from 13 – 30 June. Josephine was a recent recipient of the Ausrtralian Artists Grant, which assisted her in promoting the exhibition.
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Online Communications Coordinator kim@visualarts.net.au.
July’s Featured Artist:
This month's Featured Artist is Queensland based Carly Scoufos. Carly's work has associations with traditional textile processes such as needlework, lace making and knitting, however in Carly's case the 'fibre' or 'thread' used is fencing wire, which she interweaves to create structure and define space. She describes her work as "bridging elements of the mechanistic and industrial to the organic and natural patterns of growth and decay".
Here Carly talks to NAVA about her practice and what she's working on at the moment.
NAVA: Tell us about your art practice?
Carly Scoufos: My practice centres around the re-interpretation of natural and fluid phenomena and the organic patterns of growth and decay. Much of my work is sculptural although I prefer to take a multi-disciplinary approach to my art practice, incorporating sculpture, installation, drawing and video.
NAVA: What draws you to make those connections between industrial elements and organic structures?
CS: I am interested in binary oppositions and developing a juxtaposition between the material used and the overall imagery the artwork presents to the viewer. I think the key element that connects the two within my practice is the process.
NAVA: What do you enjoy about exploring these connections through sculpture and installation?
CS: I find sculpture a very accessible medium. We live and experience everything in three dimensions so it seems a very natural way to consider art making; utilising and activating space and form. I also find installation the natural progression from sculpture; where space is still the key concern, but moving beyond this to also engage on multiple perceptive levels eg. touch, sense, smell etc.
NAVA: Do you have a favourite work or a work you particularly enjoyed creating?
CS: I would have to say my first suspended woven wire work Unstable Surface Tension is still one of my favourites. Mostly because it was the very first time that I experienced a completed artwork to turn out exactly as I had initially envisioned it in my mind before making it.
NAVA: What are you working on at the moment?
CS: For the next few months I am weaving and sculpting approximately 250kgs of bronze wire for an artwork in the Neo-Natal Courtyard at the new Gold Coast University Hospital. The sculpture will suspend the four stories of the space and be viewable from each level. This will be my largest woven work to date and I'm really excited about the outcome and can't wait to see it installed.
NAVA: Where can we see your work?
CS: I currently have a work touring in the 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial. The exhibition is currently showing at the Manning Regional Art Gallery and then onto the Albury Art Gallery.
www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au
You can also see more of my work on my website: www.carlyscoufos.com
Carly's NAVA Artist Gallery page
Interested in being the next Featured Artist?
Just create an artist gallery on the NAVA website and email a link to kim@visualarts.net.au. All requests are reviewed by NAVA staff on a monthly basis
Acknowledgements
NAVA is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is also assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW. NAVA is also assisted by Copyright Agency Ltd.
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June 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the June 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- About NAVA
- NAVA Out and About
- Grants
- NAVA Members
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- June’s Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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Pay Artists Fees
Once again, the issue has boiled up of the lack of commitment to and uniform standard for the payment of artists fees across the art industry. A group of artists will be meeting in the next couple of weeks to plan some actions to draw attention to this problem and demand a positive response by public galleries. NAVA is providing support and advice to the group.
Artists' Long Service Leave
Following media coverage of a proposal for portable long service leave for musicians by Bill Shorten, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Tamara Winikoff published an article in ArtsHub advocating for a range of alternative arts policy measures to change the working environment for artists. She was contacted by Bill Shorten’s Adviser, Simone Stephensen to comment on the applicability or otherwise of the long service leave measures for the visual arts sector. Tamara advised that for most visual arts enterprises where artists were largely self-employed at very low income levels, long service leave was but a dream. Instead, Tamara recommended an annual government contribution to artists’ superannuation.
Government Arts Policies
As part of the pursuit of the arts sector’s interest in both the National Cultural Policy promised by Government and the more recent Review of the Australia Council, Tamara along with Julie Dyson director of Ausdance National both as co-convenors of ArtsPeak, had a meeting with Helen O’Neil, Adviser to the Arts Minister Simon Crean. Discussed were our concerns about the importance of maintaining respect for deep artform knowledge and experience in funding decision-making and a commitment to ensuring the integrity of the arm’s length funding and peer assessment principles. We expressed particular concern over the unmet needs of the small to medium arts organisations and artists’ career viability.
Australian Design Alliance 
L to R: Paul Berkemeier, Tim Horton and Tamara Winikoff.
Following its success in raising funds for the next year of its operations, the Australian Design Alliance (ADA) of which NAVA is founder and an active member, held a Special General Meeting of members to amend its constitution to confirm its not for profit status. This was immediately followed by a meeting of members. ADA welcomed its new partner, the Integrated Design Commission of South Australia (IDCSA) represented by its director Tim Horton and guest David Parken, CEO of the Australian Institute of Architects. The meeting discussed ADA’s strategic plan for the coming year. This was followed in the early evening by a forum as part of Sydney’s Vivid Festival on ‘Driving Australian Design: what a National Design Policy could do for designers’, organised in partnership between ADA and IDCSA and held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Last week in advance of the South Australian Government's State Budget, the Premier Jay Weatherill advised that the Integrated Design Commission (IDC) would be axed at the end of 2012. This is disappointing news for the design sector and is even more reason why the ADA believes the Federal Government needs to fulfil its commitment to work with the sector to put a national framework in place. The ADA plans to work closely with Tim Horton over the coming months to ensure that the great work he has done in South Australia in promoting innovation across design, planning and development is channelled into the work being done on national design policy. The AdA recently received a grant that would see it working in collaboration with the IDC over the next 12 months towards a national policy for design. The relationship will continue through the State Government Architect, Ben Hewitt, whose role is not affected.
Australia Council Review Report
NAVA and Ausdance organised a meeting by teleconference on 1st June, of several members of ArtsPeak (the confederation of Australian peak arts organisations) to compare notes on their responses to the Australia Council Review
Report, made public on 15th May. There was general agreement on the main areas of concern, especially with what were seen as significant departures from the arm’s length and peer assessment principles. At the time of writing, a media release is being drafted. After having consulted with members of the National Visual Arts, Craft and Design Network, NAVA lodged its own response to the Australia Council Review Report today. You can read it here.
VAB Consultation
NAVA’s Executive Director, Tamara Winikoff has been having meetings with the Chair and Director of the Australia Council’s Visual Arts Board to discuss various policy matters and to exchange views on key strategies in relation to craft and design. Over recent weeks, Tamara has had conversations with Ted Snell, Chair of the VAB and at the end of May, had a telephone meeting with Julie Lomax, almost new VAB Director.
NAVA's AGM and Board Meeting
NAVA held its Annual General Meeting on 30th May, confirming the re-elected Board directors, Rick Clise (SA), Alexie Glass-Kantor (Vic) and Aaron Seeto (NSW) and welcoming newly elected directors: Pippa Dickson (Tas) who has worked as a designer, curator, project manager and consultant in the private and public sectors for close to 15 years; and Kelli McClusky (WA), an artist and co-founder of tactical media art group, pvi collective [est 1998] and head girl at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts. NAVA warmly thanked departing Board members, artist Julie Shiels (Vic) and curator and writer Tim Morrell (Qld) for their dedicated service and advocacy. The meeting accepted NAVA’s annual report including the audited accounts and the report of the Chair Ian Howard and Executive Director Tamara Winikoff.
At the Board meeting which followed, Ian Howard was re-elected as the Chair of NAVA for another year, Dina Madorsky was reconfirmed as NAVA’s Treasurer and Company Secretary and three other people were co-opted for another year: Simeon Beckett barrister and human rights lawyer; Joyce Parszos communications and marketing professional; and Jenny Wong taxation expert. The Board also nominated a new NAVA representative for the Viscopy Board.
Money for Visual Artists is now online!
NAVA is pleased to announce the launch of Money for Visual Artists online. On this site you can find hundreds of grants, awards, prizes, residences and professional development opportunities for Australian visual arts, craft, design and media arts practitioners. As a member you are now entitled to free access to Money for Visual Artists online.
MFVA is a simple and easy to use database which has over 700 listings of grants, awards, prizes, residencies, scholarships, travel and opportunities for visual and media arts, craft and design practitioners in Australia and around the world. MFVA will help you identify the opportunities specific to your art practice, including art form type, prize money and entry restrictions and has links to application forms.
To access MFVA online as a NAVA member, simply log into the site at mfva.com.au using the login box at the top right of the screen, using your NAVA website (visualarts.net.au) login details. If you have visited this site from the NAVA website and you were already logged into that site, then you will automatically be logged into mfva.com.au.
Insurance for Curators, Installers, Registrars, Conservators and Arts Administrators
Just launched is NAVA’s new CIRCA membership which offers access to a comprehensive insurance package for independent curators, installers, registrars, conservators and arts administrators.
The comprehensive insurance package covers:
· Public Liability $20,000,000
· Professional Indemnity extension $5,000,000
· Property in custody or control $100,000
· Tenants Liability $20,000,000.
In addition to the regular NAVA member benefits, an extra major incentive of CIRCA membership is access to a discounted rate on membership of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which gives free or discounted entry to most major galleries and museums around the world.
To apply for the CIRCA membership click here.
NAVA Connect (NAVA in partnership with COFA Online)
With Art Business Basics, the first NAVA Connect on-line course proving enormously popular and successful, NAVA is pleased to announce enrolments are now open for courses 2, 3 and 4.
Starting on Sunday 8 July the Maximise Your Exposure 7 week course will help you to effectively market and promote your art practice or creative business to increase your sales and build audiences for your work. You will learn how to develop strong marketing skills using branding, technology and the media and get useful tips on successful grant writing and alternative sources of revenue. Towards the end of the course you will have an opportunity to develop your own marketing plan, idea pitch or grant application. Click here to enrol.
Running for 7-weeks and starting on Saturday 18 August, ‘Expanding you Career’ is for professional artists looking to develop their skills to branch out beyond their studio and gallery practice to seek opportunities to collaborate and engage with the broader creative industries and the commercial sector. Click here to enrol.
‘Connecting You in the Regions and Beyond’ is the final course in the NAVA Connect suite and is dedicated to exploring the challenges and opportunities for regional artists. This course starts on Sunday 7 October and will run for 7-weeks. Click here to enrol.
As a NAVA member you get a special discounted rate of only $100 (normally $140) for any of the ‘NAVA Connect’ online courses.
Have you visited ARIna yet?
Immerse yourself in the Artist-Run community online with ARIna.org.au - the only site dedicated to a continuing conversation around the big issues pertinent to ARIs. Registration is free for you to find, share and connect with others working in the ARI environment.
Read up on all the latest postings including ‘Why do we need ARIs? ’ as responded by three active participants of the ARI sector: Anna Dunnill (ARI director), Michael Graeve (artist), and Sharne Wolff (arts writer).
Don't Lose Control of Your Artworks
Most artists don’t yet realise the very important implications of the recently introduced Personal Property Security (PPS) Act. In mid-May, NAVA in partnership with the Arts Law Centre of Australia presented a forum on the subject in the seminar space at the Gunnery building, home to both organisations. The session went through the importance of artists registering with the new PPS Register, to ensure that if the entity (say a gallery) which is holding their work on consignment becomes insolvent, they will not lose their rights over their artwork. The session was filmed and an edited version will be made available on the NAVA and Arts Law websites shortly.
Sharing Your Canvas: Artists, 'Pinterest' and Social Media Engagement Forum
WHEN: June 26th, 6pm – 8pm
WHERE: Level 2, The Gunnery 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo
REGISTRATION: Numbers are limited.
To register for this important event visit http://navapinterest.eventbrite.com/:
COST:
$6.50 for NAVA members
$16.50 for general admission. Please purchase tickets prior to the event.
Pinterest a new visual platform, is one of the newest and fastest growing social media tools. It seems an obvious choice for artists wishing to share and sell work and build their brand. This forum will go through the pros and cons of how Pinterest and other social media tools can be leveraged effectively by artists.
Topics covered:
- why Pinterest is gaining all the press
- how Pinterest, and other social media tools, can be used to promote and monetize the work of individual artists, crafts people and designers
- the experience of an artist currently using social media as a forum for communication with their audience
- the intellectual property and copyright issues associated with these new technologies and tips for best practice usage.
Panel members:
- Bridie Connell, artist
- Mandy King, a consultant from ‘Professional Public Relations’ in Canberra, who has extensive experience
- Zoë Rodriguez, Government and Stakeholders Coordinator, Copyright Agency Limited.
‘Sharing Your Canvas’ is a NAVA initiative in collaboration with the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).
NAVA in Queensland
In mid-June NAVA’s Executive Director, Tamara Winikoff and its Brokerage and Strategy Manager Brianna Munting will be flying to Cairns and Brisbane to facilitate two round table meetings of artists and people from the business and local government communities to discuss the best way to achieve an exchange of skills between professionals in these sectors. This is a new initiative by NAVA being rolled out initially in Queensland and NSW to open new career opportunities for artists.
National CHASS Conference
Director of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Padma Mennon is planning ‘The Human Dimension’, a major conference to be held in Canberra in September this year. She discussed with Tamara and Julie Dyson the possibility of ArtsPeak running an arts sector session as part of this event.
Craft Initiatives
With the demise of Craft Australia, NAVA has been liaising with the members of the Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) about ways to collaborate on new policy and program directions for the sector. A joint proposal will be developed for the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council to consider in relation to its commitment to a National Craft Strategic Initiative. A NAVA/ACDC working meeting is planned for the end of June in Canberra to finesse these ideas into an expression of interest.
Kevin Rudd's Art 
L to R: Ian Howard and Kevin Rudd.
NAVA’s Chair Ian Howard presented a painting at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney to The Hon Kevin Rudd MP at an event also attended by NAVA’s Executive Director. Mr Rudd made an elegant off-the-cuff speech about the importance of art education and the role played by artists in Australia’s cultural life.
Emerging Curator's Grant
To oversee the decisions on who would be the lucky winners of the Sidney Myer Fund’s Curator Mentorship Initiative, Tamara Winikoff and NAVA’s General Manager Emma Thomson flew to the Sidney Myer Fund’s office in Melbourne for the day on the 1st May. The panel consisted of guest judges Kay Campbell, Executive Director of ACCA (Vic), Delia Nichols, Curator of MONA (Tas), Jim Adamson, Rupert Myer’s representative and Kate Sheldermine, Sidney Myer Committee, with Leonard Vary, CEO of The Myer Foundation and Debra Morgan, Program Manager, the Sidney Myer Fund in attendance.
Winners were:
Brooke Babington to be mentored by Melissa Loughnan of Utopian Slumps Second Round, Melbourne
Rayleen Forester to be mentored by Cuauhtemoc Medina from the Manifesta Foundation Belgium
Baden Pailthorpe to be mentored by Kyle Weise from Screen Space, Melbourne
Brigid Noone to be mentored by Mary Knights, SASA Gallery at the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide.
The Australian Artists' Grant (fomerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant)
Deadline: 15 August 2012
This grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups.
The NSW Artists' Grant
Deadline: 15 August 2012
This grant gives financial assistance to professional visual arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups.
On Now
South Australia Illustrated: Colonial painting in the Land of Promise at the Art Gallery of South Australia (from 2 June until 5 August 2012)
Fred Williams Infinite Horizons at the Ian Potter Gallery (from April 7 until 22 July 2012);
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Coming Soon
Picasso to Warhol will be on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 16 June until 3 December 2012;
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
Eugène Atgets’ Old Paris exhibition will be on at the Art Gallery of NSW and will run from the 24 August until 4 November 2012;
Toulouse –Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge will be on at the National Gallery of Australia from 14 December until the 2 April 2013.
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members, visit the NAVA Directory.
Nola Farman has started a residency in the art department at Newcastle University to work on the Clothes Hoist Project.
Arts SA has awarded a $3,000 Professional Development grant to Rick Clise, which will support his mentorship with artist George Popperwell.
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Online Communications Coordinator kim@visualarts.net.au.
This month's Featured Artist is Perth based Mark Parfitt whose practice is concerned with the boundaries of art and life, fusing creativity with ordinary living.
Mark has a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science) from Edith Cowan University, a Master of Arts (Visual Art) from Curtin University and is currently undertaking a PhD (Education) at Curtin University.
Mark has received numerous grants and scholarships including a New Work Emerging grant from the Australia Council and an All Artforms grant from the Department of Culture and the Arts, Western Australian Government.
Recently Mark talked to NAVA about his art practice and what's coming up next for him.
Click here to read our interview with Mark.
Acknowledgements
NAVA is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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May 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the May 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Advocacy
- About NAVA
- NAVA Out and About
- Grants
- NAVA Members
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- May’s Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
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ArtsPeak’s Recent Actions
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Expectations that the National Cultural Policy (NCP) would be announced along with Tuesday’s Federal Budget have been put on hold with the information in the media and confirmation from the Office for the Arts that "the Minister has agreed to delay the release of the NCP by a few months" and that details of what will happen will be contained in the Budget.
ArtsPeak, the national confederation of peak arts organisations, (co-convened by NAVA and Audance) has sent a media release which expresses our hope that the Policy will be released very soon and appropriately resourced
In the last few days a letter also has been sent from ArtsPeak to the Arts Minister Simon Crean asking that there be an immediate 10% increase in real funding for small to medium arts organisations.
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The Convergence Review Final Report
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Last week the report of the Convergence Review was made public. It recognised that content which was previously only delivered in a cinema, on television or in a newspaper now can be accessed on devices such as smartphones and tablets but currently this content is regulated differently depending on how it is accessed.
The Report recommended that a new communications regulator be established to replace the existing Australian Communications and Media Authority, it should operate at arm’s length from government direction (except in a limited range of specified matters) and should incorporate a Classification Board as recently recommended in the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC)’s review of the National Classification Scheme.
NAVA’s submissions on these matters to both the Convergence Review and the Classification Review recommended that:
a) adults should be able to read, hear and see what they want;
(b) minors should be protected from material likely to harm or disturb them;
(c) everyone should be protected from exposure to unsolicited and illegal material;
and where regulation is required, it should be the minimum necessary to achieve a clear public purpose.
Encouragingly, the Report’s starting point was that unnecessary regulation should be removed and there should be a flexible and technology-neutral approach to content regulation that reflects community standards. It recommended that a common classification scheme should apply to media content where content would be classified once and applied across all platforms.
It proposed that the new regulator should work with industry to improve information for users about what they can do to control access to sensitive content, such as parental locks or age-verification systems.
To read the Report go here
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National Design Policy Campaign
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After 50 days, NAVA can proudly announce the success of the Australian Design Alliance (AdA)’s Pozible crowd funding campaign. Just over the target of $15,000 was raised towards its work to secure a National Design Policy. Congratulations and thanks to those of you who made the pledge. We are sure your money is well invested for the long-term benefit of Australia’s design culture.
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NAVA's AGM
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All members are cordially invited to attend NAVA’s Annual General Meeting to be held from 9.30 – 10.30am on Wednesday 30th May 2012 on the second floor of the Gunnery, 43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Road Woolloomooloo, Sydney NSW.
The meeting agenda is:
1. Apologies
2. Approval of the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held Monday 30 May 2011.
3. Business arising
4. Receive and consider the Chairperson’s and Executive Director’s report
5. Approve the Balance Sheet and the Profit and Loss statement, together with the report and statement to the Directors and audited accounts, as presented in the 2011 Annual Report.
6. Approve the 2011 Annual Report
7. Confirm the auditors for 2013
8. Confirm the Directors of the Company for the ensuing year.
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Pinterest Forum
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NAVA is offering a forum on Pinterest, the newest social media tool used to collect and share images. It will be held in Sydney but we hope to vodcast the highlights later for everyone.
Date: June 26th 2012
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Location: Seminar Room, Level 2, The Gunnery, 43-51 Cowper Rd, Wharf Woolloomooloo, Sydney.
Check our website at the end of May for information.
In this professional development workshop hosted by NAVA, we shall explore:
- What is Pinterest, the latest social media platform gaining all the press,
- How Pinterest, and other social media tools, can be used to promote and monetize the work of individual artists, crafts people and designers,
- The experience of an artist current using social media as a forum for communication with potential customers,
- The intellectual property and copyright issues associated with these new technologies and tips for best practice usage
Pinterest, the current darling of the social media industry, is a tool that has inherent benefits for those in the art world. Being a visual platform it seems an obvious choice for artists wishing to share their work and build their brand. In addition Pinterest has been used to great success as a tool for selling products, offering opportunity for users to generate revenue. It is reported to be the fastest growing site in history with 11.7 million unique users recorded in December 2011.
NAVA is curious to know your thoughts about Pinterest and how it can benefit your practice. Email your ideas to marketing@visualarts.net.au
Further reading
What Pinterest means for the arts by Matthew Caines
How 5 Artists Use Pinterest by Alicia Eler
Why I tearfully deleted my pinterest inspiration boards by Karen Kowlalski
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Personal Property Securities Act Forum
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NAVA and Arts Law are holding a seminar about the impact of the recently legislated Personal Property Securities Act on artists who have works on consignment in a commercial gallery or on loan for an exhibition.
‘Answers for Artists: The Personal Property Securities Act’
Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012
Time: 5.45pm, for a 6pm start, until 8pm
Location: The Gunnery L2, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road Woolloomooloo, Sydney
Registration: Numbers are limited.
To register for this important event visit http://ppsa.eventbrite.com/
Costs:
$5 + booking fee for members or subscribers
$15 + booking fee for general admission
Please purchase tickets prior to the event.
In this 2 hour seminar, panelists will:
- outline how the Act has changed the law and why artists now should consider registering on the Personal Property
Securities Register to protect their rights - explain the function of the new register and demonstrate how it works
- discuss personal experiences when faced with an insolvency situation
- answer questions from the audience.
Panelists are:
- Andrew Sellars, Principal Legal Officer, Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia (ITSA)
- Camille Masson-Talansier, Artist
- Robyn Ayres, Executive Director, Arts Law Centre of Australia
- Rebecca Laubi, Senior solicitor, Arts Law Centre of Australia
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NAVA Connect Online Courses
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NAVA’s new program of on-line career development courses for artists is now underway. The first course is fully booked with a waiting list. However, the second course, ‘Maximise your Exposure’ is available for registration and selling fast. Don’t miss out. As a NAVA member you get a special discounted rate of only $100 (normally $140) for any of the ‘NAVA Connect’ online courses.
Maximise your Exposure with NAVA Connect Online Courses
Only $140 (non-members) or $100 (NAVA members)
Course dates: 7 July – 26 August 2012 (7 weeks)
Maximise Your Exposure will run for seven weeks covering
- how to reach your target through marketing and promotion,
- social and mainstream media,
- grant writing and
- revenue raising.
The online delivery includes high levels of collaboration and interaction, making it a sociable as well as a learning event. As a course participant you would connect online on a daily basis much like email, and complete a set of activities that would assist you in getting your art out there. Click here to enrol.
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New ARIna Website
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NAVA, in collaboration with Crawl Inc. has launched ‘ARIna’, a brand new online resource dedicated to Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs). ARIna.org.au is a place for ARIs to find, share, connect and expand ideas and practical information on issues and topics affecting them.
ARIna is now open for business, so we encourage you not only to visit the site, but to register (it's free) and begin to contribute to the dialogue. There are already questions and conversations around the role of ARIs in our community and requests for information on issues such as the best insurance options. This is a great way to contribute to the Australian art community in a practical, easy way.
One person’s trash is another’s treasure. In the spirit of recycle, reuse and renew, ARIna has a section dedicated to sharing and swapping supplies called ‘Scrapyard’. This means you can clear out the garage and find a good home for all those items too good to become landfill. Register now to find a new artist home for your no longer needed materials or equipment. Or if you are an ARI looking for materials, register and post your needs.
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NAVA in Queensland
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Following on from the work done by the consultant researching “New Directions for NAVA’ last year, we recently extended the scoping study in Queensland. Brianna Munting, NAVA's Brokerage and Strategy Manager, looked at the climate, needs and service provisions for artists and the arts sector in new areas of opportunity. NAVA held discussions with over 25 organisations and individuals across the arts, business and social enterprise sectors. It was a timely exploration of how NAVA could further fulfill its national mandate and the importance of generating opportunities and access to new relationships for artists across the country.
Thank you to everyone from Brisbane, Cairns and Toowoomba who contributed their time, knowledge and ideas assisting us to gain a strong state view and information on the impressive range of practices and work being produced across the Sunshine State.
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Canberra Meetings
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Early in April, NAVA’s Executive Director Tamara Winikoff was in Canberra for several purposes. Firstly, along with Julie Dyson as the co-convenors of ArtsPeak (the confederation of peak Australian arts organisations), we met with senior staff of the Office for the Arts to take further the conversation started a few weeks before about the National Cultural Policy and Australia Council Review.
Tamara also separately met with Avi Amesbury, Craft ACT and Catrina Vignando, Craft Australia about planning a new collaborative strategy between NAVA and the Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) to build the capacity of Australian craft in the aftermath of the closure of Craft Australia at the end of April.
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NAVA in Melbourne
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In mid- April Tamara went to Melbourne for several meetings. She met with senior staff at Arts Victoria to discuss a number of policy matters including progress of the Victorian Organisations Program review. Already completed are two information sessions, seven sector meetings and an online survey which closed in April. Shortly a discussion paper will be released which will include key themes from the forums as well as other issues. This will be followed by Discussion Paper Forums some time in May.
The other meetings were with City of Melbourne to discuss progress on a grant given to NAVA for the ARIna project, and policy consultations held separately with the directors of Craft Victoria and Gertrude Contemporary.
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Curator Mentorship Initiative
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Last week NAVA staff flew down to Melbourne to facilitate the judging of the Curator Mentorship Initiative supported by the Sidney Myer Fund and managed by NAVA. Over 30 high quality submissions were received which made the selection process a challenging one. The four assessors (2 independent senior gallery staff & two people nominated by the Myer Trust) finally achieved consensus and four winners will be sent letters this week after which the decisions will be made public. Keep your eyes on our website for the results.
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The Australian Artists' Grant (formerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant)
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Deadline: 15 May 2012
This grant offers financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. Up to $500 + gst for individuals and $1000 + gst for groups.
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The NSW Artists' Grant
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Deadline: 15 May 2012
This grant gives financial assistance to professional visual arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. $1250 + gst for individuals and $2500 + gst for groups.
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The Windmill Trust Scholarship for Regional NSW Artists
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Deadline: 28 May 2012
Applications are now open for The Windmill Trust Scholarship for Regional NSW Artists, which marks its 15th year of dedicated support for visual artists living and working in regional areas of NSW. The annual scholarship awards up to $5000 to an artist in the field of sculpture, drawing, painting and/or printmaking to provide financial aid for the costs associated with being a professional artist, including: materials; marketing and promotion; studio and exhibition fees; as well as related educational fees. For more information or to apply online click here.
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The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
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Deadline: 5 June 2012
Applications are now open for the prestigious Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists. The scholarship awards up to $5,000 each to four winning artists to provide assistance towards travel (for educational purposes) and/or tuition costs for young people building a career in the visual arts, broadly in the areas of painting, photography or sculpture. For more information or to apply online click here.
One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
The annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition opened on 31 March at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (until 3 June 2012);
Fred Williams Infinite Horizons at the Ian Potter Gallery (from April 7 until 22 July 2012);
Coming soon
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members visit the NAVA Directory.
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Money for Visual Artists Online
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Very shortly, all current NAVA members will get the online version of NAVA’s best selling publication ‘Money for Visual Artists’ free as part of your membership package. For non-members, for $35 it is available as an online subscription service. This exciting new benefit will provide you as a NAVA member, with access to all the current opportunities, grants and prizes around Australia and beyond. NAVA will keep you posted about when it goes live.
Book lovers need not despair. The hard copy version of the 11th edition of Money for Visual Artists will be available at the end of May and can be purchased at the discounted membership price of $25 including postage (full price $35). To pre-order, email marketing@visualarts.net.au with MFVA in the subject line.
Nola Farman has been awarded an ANAT Synapse Grant to work with solar power physicists at the Centre for Organic Electronics at Newcastle University, NSW.
Mindfulness 101 by Alan James was recently acquired by Redland Art Gallery and is now permanently displayed in Cleveland Library, Qld. On Saturday 12 May Alan will be auctioning one of his art works as part of Laruche Bar’s ‘One Small Miracle Art Auction’ in support of Mater Little Miracles Charity Foundation.
http://signs-of-life.com.au/tag/mindfulness-101/
https://www.facebook.com/events/279337122137152
Sculptor Alison McDonald is currently mid way through a three-month residency at Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales.
http://alisonmcdonaldinabers.blogspot.com.au/
Andrea Przygonski has been admitted to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) to undertake a Masters in Fine Art. She has also been awarded their New Artist Society Scholarship to support her studies. Andrea still has additional costs to fund and is seeking donations to help. If you would like to support Andrea’s studies go to http://www.abaf.org.au/donors/artist-projects/andrea-przygonski.html
http://www.andreaprzygonski.com.au/
Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Online Communications Coordinator kim@visualarts.net.au.
This month's Featured Artist is Sydney based Ella Condon whose photography, sound, video and installation based practice interacts with spaces that have been reinvented.
Ella's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, as well as a range of Sydney based galleries. She is currently a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts by Research, University of Sydney.
Recently Ella talked to NAVA about her practice and her interest in creating work around reinvented spaces.
Click here to read our interview with Ella.
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Acknowledgements
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NAVA is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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April 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the April 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
- Help make a National Design Policy a reality
- Advocacy
- About NAVA
- NAVA Out and About
- Grants
- NAVA Members
- NAVA Membership Benefits
- Members' News
- April’s Featured Artist
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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Help make a National Design Policy a reality
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The Australian Design Alliance (AdA) of which NAVA is an active member has launched a campaign on Pozible – the Australian crowdfunding platform – to help fund advocacy for a national design policy. Why should this be of interest to you as a visual or media arts, craft or design practitioner? NAVA believes it can create really exciting new fields for you to apply and profile your innovative and creative skills. The policy could be relevant across many areas of government responsibility: the Innovation Agenda; education; international trade; environmental sustainability; urban design; manufacturing as a start. But it needs your contribution now.
NAVA is asking you to help by showing your support through a donation pledge of any size and by making this a viral campaign through sending the request on to your mates. If lots of people give even just a little, it will demonstrate to Government that there is BIG support for this idea in the creative sector. We hope you will add you pledge however
small by going to: http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/5291/description/0/0 Or contacting Lisa Cahill, AdA Executive Director, at info@australiandesignalliance.com
For the last 18 months ADA, has been very active at both a policy and project level getting design to front of mind for politicians, key decision makers and the community. But the funding has just about run out. We need your help to maintain the impetus of this work.
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Zoo Competition
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There was a successful outcome to NAVA’s short sharp campaign to persuade Melbourne Zoo to amend its entry conditions for the ‘Mali in the City’ competition. We were tipped off by an artist’s complaint and acted quickly as the competition was already seeking submissions. The Zoo was asking all applicants to agree to completely assign their copyright in perpetuity even if their work was not selected. Sadly, the problem is not an uncommon one.
The good result of this negotiation was an agreement that the Zoo would be entitled to use images only of the winners, and only for the purposes of promoting the exhibition. Separate licenses with appropriate remuneration would be negotiated for any further uses. This is one of the important roles NAVA plays for you i.e. monitoring and requiring compliance with art industry standards.
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Craft Sector Planning
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The catalyst is the imminent closure of Craft Australia, the national peak organisation for the Australian contemporary craft and design sector. What is taking place is intense discussion about what should happen now. NAVA helped to organise last week’s meetings of the Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC), Craft Australia and NAVA, both with the Visual Arts Board (VAB) of the Australia Council and between ourselves to discuss where to next. When making the decision towards the end of last year to end the funding for Craft Australia, the VAB announced “a National Craft Strategic Initiative with a total budget of $400,000 over four years that will build advocacy and strategic opportunities for the Australian craft sector”. Subsequently $100K of these funds was allocated to assist in the winding up of Craft Australia which closes its doors this month. The ACDC and NAVA will be responding to this initiative by proposing a three year strategy.
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Australian Design Alliance
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NAVA participated in two meetings about the ADA, one with the members to discuss possible sources of support for the 2012 program and the other with Arts NSW about NSW design policy development and support.
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Stop Press
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The results of the NAVA Board election are just in and bring two new people onto our governing body who will start their duties at the May Board meeting.
Continuing on for another two years are Artist Representative, sculptor Rick Clise (SA) and Organisational Representatives, Alexie Glass Kantor (Vic) Director of Gertrude Contemporary & Aaron Seeto (NSW) Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Newly elected are Artist Representatives, Kelli McClusky (WA) artist and co-founder of the PVI Collective artist run initiative and Pippa Dickson (Tas) designer, curator, project manager and consultant.
We are delighted to have attracted such great people onto the NAVA Board.
For their commitment and greatly valued work on NAVA’s governance, policy and program development we would like to warmly thank outgoing Board members, artist Julie Shiels from Melbourne and Tim Morrell, art curator and writer from Brisbane. We would also like to thank the other people who nominated for the Board for their interest in being involved our work.
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NAVA Connect
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NAVA’s new program of online career development courses for artists is now available for registration. Courses 1 & 2 are selling fast – don’t miss out. As a NAVA member you will receive a special discounted price of only $100 (normally $140) for any NAVA Connect online course.
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Courses 3 & 4 will open for enrolment in May 2012. Stay tuned for further details.
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Professional Development
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Over the next few months, NAVA is partnering with the Arts Law Centre of Australia to deliver six seminars covering legal issues impacting on artists today. Each session will include high-level industry professionals who will address key topics that every artist needs to be aware of including:
· Personal Properties Securities Act (new rules affecting your work on consignment)
· Occupational Health & Safety
· Freedom of Expression & Censorship
· Intellectual Property
· Accessibility
· Indigenous Legal issues
Check out the NAVA website for session times and details.
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New web resource - free to use
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NAVA, in collaboration with Crawl Inc., is soon to launch ‘ARIna’, a brand new online resource dedicated to Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs). ARIna.org.au is a place for ARIs to find, share, connect and expand ideas and practical information on issues and topics affecting them.
ARIna offers users the opportunity to create or comment on a topic, post listings and connect with others working within the artist run community.
One person’s trash is another’s treasure.
In the spirit of recycle, reuse and renew, ARIna will have a section dedicated to sharing and swapping supplies called ‘Scrapyard’. This means you can clear out the garage and find a good home for all those items too good to become landfill. Stay tuned. We’ll keep you updated on when you can get started.
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The We Are Here Catalogue is almost here
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The 140 page ‘We Are Here’ (WAH) catalogue will soon to be available only from NAVA. To pre-order, email marketing@visualarts.net.au. The cost is a bargain at $15.00 including postage.
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Melbourne Art Fair
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It’s confirmed. NAVA is heading to Melbourne for the much loved biennial Melbourne Art Fair. Make sure you come and visit NAVA’s stand; we’re cooking up some fabulous ideas and we’ll have special discounts and offers available throughout the Fair. Melbourne Art Fair will run from 1 until 5 August 2012 at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.
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Artists Week
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NAVA’s Executive Director, Tamara Winikoff attended some of Artists Week at the Adelaide Festival and visited many of the exhibitions that were curated for the Festival. She took the opportunity to discuss policy and exchange up to date sector information at meetings with the senior staff of Arts SA, and directors of the Australian Experimental Arts Foundation (AEAF), Jam Factory, Craftsouth, Artlink magazine and the curator of the South Australian School of Art Gallery.
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Art and Australia
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As the manager of the Art and Australia/Credit Suisse Bank Art Award program, NAVA was invited to attend the dinner celebrating the exhibition at MOP Projects gallery in Sydney of works from the Art and Australia collection, bought from winners of the award.
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Art Month Talk at Blacktown
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In mid-March, NAVA’s Brokerage & Strategy Manager, Brianna Munting, joined two other expert panellists for Blacktown Arts Centre’s forum ‘Debunking the Myths’. Brianna’s talk dealt with the issues facing artists when submitting their work in prizes and exhibitions, detailing the need to read the fine print in entry forms, the benefits and traps of these events and artists’ rights, expectations, and considerations in regard to copyright and moral rights. The event was held as part of Sydney’s Art Month and presented in partnership with NAVA.
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COFA Talk
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Tamara and Brianna gave a joint two-hour presentation to Media Arts students at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) in Sydney about career development options, setting up in business as a professional on leaving art school and the political and industry background for their practice.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Reopens
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NAVA staff joined the glamorous crowd of artists, donors, well wishers, art gurus and addicts at the triumphant opening of
the refurbished and greatly expanded Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney on 28th March. As well as new gallery spaces, it provides a technologically up to the minute art education facility for school kids and their teachers, artists and the community of interested people. And the café has the view to die for.
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The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes
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On Friday 30th March, NAVA staff were part of the scrum at the opening of the most well known of Australia’s art competitions at the Art Gallery of NSW. One of Australia’s oldest, the Archibald Prize is awarded to the best portrait painting of someone distinguished in art, letters, science or politics. It is often set about with controversy. At the same time the Wynne Prize is awarded to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery or figure sculpture, while the Sulman Prize is given to the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project in oil, acrylic, watercolour or mixed media.
This year the winners in each category are:
Archibald: Tim Storrier with ‘The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch)’
Wynne: Imants Tillers with ‘Waterfall (after Williams)’
Sulman: Nigel Milsom with ‘Judo House pt 4 (Golden Mud)’.
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Curator Mentorship Initiative: Deadline Now Extented until Monday 16 April 2012
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There are only a couple of weeks left to get your application in for the Curator Mentorship Initiative. This unique opportunity is available to assist emerging and mid-career curators to realise their dream projects through mentored placements within an art institution, gallery or university. To find out more about the CMI or to apply online click here.
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The Windmill Trust
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Applications are now open for the annual ‘Windmill Trust Scholarship for Regional NSW Artists’. Up to $5,000 is awarded to an artist living and working in a regional area of NSW. To find out more about the Windmill Trust Scholarship or to apply online click here.
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NSW Artists' Grant
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The closing date for the next round of the NSW Artists’ Grant is Tuesday 15 May. The NSW Artists’ Grant gives financial assistance to professional visual arts, craft and design practitioners in NSW to effectively produce, present and promote their work throughout NSW, interstate and overseas. To find out more or to apply online click here.
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Australian Artists' Grant & Eckersley's Art Material Prize for NAVA Members
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The closing date for the next round of the Australian Artists’ Grant is also Tuesday 15 May. The Australian Artists' Grant (formerly the Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant) gives financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work. To find out more or to apply online click here.
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NAVA's new CIRCA Membership for art workers
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As part of a suite of new benefits, NAVA’s is excited to offer a brand new membership category for curators, installers, registrars, conservators and arts administrators. The package includes access to a comprehensive insurance package including public liability. You can also get a discounted rate on membership of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). To apply for NAVA’s CIRCA membership you’ll need to meet the selection criteria and complete an online form. Applications open in April. To find out more click here.
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NAVA's Professional and Certified Membership
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If you are wishing to upgrade your NAVA Individual Membership, the next round of applications for Professional and Certified Membership is closing on 8 April.
If you miss the closing date, NAVA can now fast track your membership application for an extra $10. Applicants will be signed up within 5 days of lodging their application. If you would like to take up this offer, email admin@visualarts.net.au once you have submitted the online application form. Click the ‘Join NAVA’ tab on the visualarts homepage to start your application. For information and to apply, click here.
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New Membership Benefit: Money for Visual Artists Online
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Very shortly, all current NAVA members will get the online version of NAVA’s best selling publication ‘Money for Visual Artists’ free as part of your membership package. For non-members, for $35 it is available as an online subscription service. This exciting new benefit will provide you as a NAVA member, with access to all the current opportunities, grants and prizes around Australia and beyond. NAVA will keep you posted about when it goes live.
Book lovers need not despair. The hard copy version of the 11th edition of Money for Visual Artists will be available at the end of May and can be purchased at the discounted membership price of $25 including postage. To pre-order, email marketing@visualarts.net.au with MFVA in the subject line.
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Gallery Discount
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One of the many benefits of NAVA’s membership is free or concession price entry to paying exhibitions at all the major national and state museums and galleries. Below we’ve listed a few exhibitions where you can currently present your NAVA membership card for a discount:
On now
The annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition opened on 31 March at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (until 3 June 2012);
Works by the great masters of 15th and 16th century Europe are on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Renaissance: Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, Bellini (from 9 December 2011 to 9 April 2012);
Coming soon
Napoleon: Revolution to Empire at the National Gallery of Victoria (from 2 June until 7 October 2012)
Fred Williams Infinite Horizons at the Ian Potter Gallery (from April 7 until 22 July 2012);
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado at the Queensland Art Gallery (from 21 July until 4 November 2012);
For a full list of galleries offering discounted or free entry to NAVA members visit the NAVA Directory.
Karen Standke’s exhibition you are here will be showing at Jackman Gallery in St Kilda, Melbourne until 14 April 2012. Click here to visit Karen's website.
Ben Kenning is currently in Beijing on a two-month Artist in Residence program with Red Gate. When he returns he will join Newcastle Regional Art Gallery as a Gallery Attendant. Click here to visit Ben's website.
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Anna Glynn will be artist in residence at the Avian Kingdom, Harlösa, Sweden in July and August this year. Whilst there she will be creating a new Avian Kingdom series of works, which will combine drawings, paintings, photos, video and sound as well as a short digital video artwork that ARNA can include for an online audience. Click here to visit Anna's website or here to visit ARNA's. |
Ceramicist Cathy Keys has a brand new website www.cathykeys.com .Head to the website for a preview of Bunya, her latest exhibition. Bunya will be on display until 30 April 2012 at the Bunya Forest Gallery, Bunya Mountains, Queensland. Cathy's gorgeous new website was created with the assistance of a Queensland Government Arts Queensland Presentation and Development Grant.
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Margo Humphries’ t-shirt design recently made it to the top 20 in Redbubble’s T-Shirt design competition for New York band 'The Big Sleep'. The competition involved designing a limited edition tee for the band’s SXSW gig in Austin, Texas on 15 March 2012. For the design, Margo sourced dolls from op shops, removed the bodies and then sewed the doll heads onto pink straps before photographing them. Click here to visit Margo's website.
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Submit your news
If you have any exhibitions, events or residencies coming up or if you've recently received a grant or prize then please let us know and we'll feature it in the next eBulletin. Send your news and any images to our Online Communications Coordinator kim@visualarts.net.au.
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April Featured Artist: Mairi Ward This month’s Featured Artist is Launceston based artist/designer Mairi Ward. Since her first solo exhibition in 2007, Mairi has exhibited on a regular basis and has been selected as a finalist in juried exhibitions, including the 2010 Glover prize. She is represented by Handmark Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania and in 2009 Mairi received an Australian post-graduate scholarship to undertake a Masters of Fine Art at the university of Tasmania. Recently Mairi spoke to NAVA about her work and the relationship between the visual art and design aspects of her practice. Click here to read NAVA’s interview with Mairi.
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Acknowledgements
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NAVA is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NAVA is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. NAVA is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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March 2012 - All the latest from NAVA
Welcome to the March 2012 NAVA News eBulletin!
Stop Press - Friday 9th March is your last opportunity to participate in the Review of the Australia Council survey. Go to http://online.tns-global.com/wix/p1177550425.aspx
Click here if you'd prefer to read this eBulletin on our website.
In this issue:
About NAVA
- NAVA Connect Online Courses
- Money for Visual Artists online FREE for members!
- Pre-order your WAH Catalogue
- The NAVA Quarterly
Advocacy
- The Personal Properties Securities Act and its serious impact on artists
- Beware of Entry Conditions
Grants
- The Curator Mentorship Initiative
NAVA Out and About
- Tamara in Adelaide
- Art Month
- Art School Talks
NAVA Members
- Next round for NAVA Professional and Certified Membership Applications
NAVA Membership Benefits
- Gallery Discounts
Have Your Say
- Vote in NAVA's 2012 Board Election
- Participate in the Australia Council Review Survey
- VJing Survey
Members' News
- The latest from our members
- March Featured Artist: Rachel Verheggen
Competition
Happy reading!
From the NAVA Team.
P.S. Don't forget you can catch up with all of our previous eBulletins in the Member Only Area on our website.
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