2012 ACR Recipients Announced

20 / 12 / 2011

 

Museums and Galleries NSW (M&G NSW) is delighted to announce the successful recipients of the inaugural Artist and Curator In-Residence (ACR) program who will each receive $22,500 to conduct a residency program within communities of regional NSW.

 

The Artist and Curator In-Residence Program (ACR), funded with the assistance of the Copyright Agency Limited’s (CAL) Cultural Fund and managed by M&G NSW, is a new grant initiative that offers financial assistance for regional galleries to engage established artists or curators to undertake a residency activity within their community. Through this support, the program aims to further encourage audience engagement with innovative and adventurous contemporary art.

 

M&G NSW CEO, Michael Rolfe, commented that since becoming CEO, M&G NSW’s focus has changed to being primarily concerned with supporting the program aspirations of museums and galleries throughout the state. ‘As an organisation we care about programming capacity and the generation of exciting projects, and we know that our galleries and museums embrace that challenge too. It’s wonderful to have a partner in CAL that shares our aspirations and one that also cares passionately about developing career opportunities for artists and curators as well.”

 

The successful recipients are:

 

  • Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, to host a residency for artist Adam Norton.

Contemporary artist Adam Norton will develop a new body of work using Broken Hill and the surrounding landscape of the outback as a backdrop for a series of photographic images and DVD footage depicting human intervention in extreme environments, culminating in the Das Marsprojekt exhibition at Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery in 2013. The artist will conduct and participate in a series of public and educational programs with the local community during his stay in the region.

 

  • Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, to host a residency for artists Mini Graff and Jason Wing.

Street and stencil artist Mini Graff will work onsite at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery’s education studio to create a new series of work in response to issues facing local indigenous and non-indigenous communities, to be exhibited in 2013 at the gallery. Emerging Aboriginal artist, Jason Wing, will join Mini Graff during the residency to collaboratively work and run skills-based workshops for local Aboriginal artists, students and school groups in street and stencil art. Works developed in these workshops will be exhibited at the Gallery in 2012.

 

For more information about the Artist & Curator In-Residence Program (ACR) or to find out more about the 2012 recipients contact:

 

Lillian Lim

Touring Exhibitions Services Coordinator

(02) 9339 9905 

lillianl@mgnsw.org.au.

 

The Artist & Curator In-Residence Grant Program is supported by the Copyright Agency Limited’s Cultural Fund, and is managed by Museums and Galleries NSW.

 

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