Nominees 2019
This year we have received an incredibly strong selection of nominations. We welcome the many new museums and galleries who have nominated for the first time as well as great new projects from past nominees and winners. We look forward to sharing the winners and celebrating the successes of the year with you at the 2019 IMAGinE awards night to be held at the Powerhouse Museum on Friday 29 November.
Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum, The Albert Chapman Collection: remarkable minerals from the Australian Museum nominated in EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS 3-10 paid staff.
Australian Design Centre- The Teapot Project: Hendrik Forster and Kenny Son. Nominated in EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue nominated in EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES 3-10 paid staff. Xiao Lu, 2019, pictured in front of her work Polar《极地》(detail), 2016. Installation view at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, January 2019. Image: Kai Wasikowski.
Parramatta Artists' Studios, Expansion of Parramatta Artists' Studios with new artists' studio facility in Rydalmere nominated in CAPACITY BUILDING, CAPITAL & SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS More than $100,000. 2019 Studio Artists, Parramatta Artists' Studios Rydalmere, photo by Jacquie Manning
| EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES Volunteer or up to 2 paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Bega Valley Regional Gallery | South/East Interference Volume II |
| Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School | Euan Macleod: Guardian |
| EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES 3-10 paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art | Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue |
| Australian Design Centre | The Teapot Project: Hendrik Forster and Kenny Son |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | Curiouser & Curiouser |
| Blue Mountains City Art Gallery | Blue Mountains Botanica exhibition |
| Fairfield City Museum & Gallery | Fort Thunder: an electro acoustic playground |
| Goulburn Regional Art Gallery | Goulburn Bustle |
| Hazelhurst Arts Centre | Weapons for the soldier: protecting country, culture and family |
| Hurstville Museum & Gallery | Beyond the bowl |
| Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre | Daneha (Seeds) |
| Mosman Art Gallery | T5 Tank Sound Project |
| Newcastle Art Gallery | SODEISHA: Connected to Australia |
| Parramatta Artists’ Studios & Mosman Art Gallery | New Sacred |
| Tamworth Regional Gallery | The View From 1919: A Century of the Tamworth Regional Gallery Collection |
| UTS ART | Void |
| EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES 11+ paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Campbelltown Arts Centre | Borrowed Scenery |
| Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | Copper |
| Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) | Plastic Palace (Summer Place Annual Architecture Series) |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia | John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new |
| Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of the Lewers Bequest & NSW State Archives | Marriage: Love and Law |
| EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS Volunteer or up to 2 paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Batemans Bay Heritage Museum | ‘After Hours’ Back in the Bay in the Day |
| Berrima District Museum | A Butcher A Baker a bunch of Makers |
| Port Macquarie Museum | Where we call home |
| EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS 3-10 paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Albert Kersten Mining and Mineral Museum | Shoulder to Shoulder: Rebel Women of Broken Hill 1888 – 1917 |
| Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum | The Albert Chapman Collection: remarkable minerals from the Australian Museum |
| Hurstville Museum & Gallery | Keep in Touch |
| Norfolk Island Museums and Research Centre | What’s in a Name? |
| Orange Regional Museum | All in a Day’s Work |
| Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre and Archives | Sisters of Charity Exhibition |
| EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS 11+ paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Australian Museum | Capturing Nature: Early photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 |
| Australian National Maritime Museum | War & Peace in the Pacific – The Home Front |
| Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences | Akira Isogawa |
| NSW State Archives | The Queen’s Album |
| Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest & Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences | The Ideal Home |
| State Library of NSW | Dead Central (and companion podcast The Burial Files) |
| ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS Volunteer or up to 2 paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Berrima District Museum | The Story Centre in HD Digital Gallery |
| Bondi Pavilion Gallery | Enchanted Garden |
| Eugowra Museum & Bushranger Centre | Bigger than Ben Hall |
| The Lock-Up | Argo Pacifico Kids Club |
| ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS 3-10 paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Australian Design Centre | Gadigal Mural |
| Bank Art Museum Moree | BAMM Art Fair |
| Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | Exploring Aboriginal Astronomy through Cross-disciplinary Programs |
| Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery | FRESHbark |
| Hurstville Museum & Gallery | Reminiscing sessions |
| Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Stories from Wonnarua Country |
| Mosman Art Gallery and Parramatta Artists’ Studios | New Sacred |
| Museum of the Riverina | STEAM the Museum |
| Newcastle Art Gallery | Last Fridays |
| Newcastle Museum | The Shake Up |
| Norfolk Island Museums and Research Centre | Norfolk Island Museums School Holiday Activity Program |
| Parramatta Artists’ Studios | The Long Table |
| UNSW Galleries | Radical Sydney as part of ‘The Beehive’ |
| ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS 11+ paid staff |
| Organisation | Project |
| Australian Museum, Blacktown Arts, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | Oceania Rising |
| Australian National Maritime Museum | Australian Migration Stories |
| Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | Way Out West (WOW) Festival for children |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia | Conversation Starters: Temperature Rising |
| State Library of NSW, DX Lab | #NewSelfWales |
| CAPACITY BUILDING, CAPITAL & SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS Less than $100,000 |
| Organisation | Project |
| 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art | Sustainability Plan: Certified Carbon Neutral |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | RE-ORG BATHURST |
| CAPACITY BUILDING, CAPITAL & SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS More than $100,000 |
| Organisation | Project |
| Australian National Maritime Museum | Lightweight solar panel system |
| Barraba Museum | Barraba Museum Revitalisation Project |
| Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery and Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum | Australia’s First Heritage Listed City Goes Digital |
| Gallery DownTown annexe of the Tweed Regional Gallery | Gallery DownTown |
| Golden Memories Millthorpe Museum | Exhibition Pavilion and Pioneer’s Gallery Refurbishment |
| Mosman Art Gallery | State-of-the-Art Storage for Mosman Art Collection |
| Parramatta Artists Studios | New artists’ studio facility in Rydalmere |
| ACHAA Award for Excellence |
| Nominee |
| Djon Mundine OAM |
| Hubert ‘Laddie’ Timbery |
| Individual Achievement: Volunteer |
| Nominee | Organisation |
| Marea Buist | Port of Yamba Historical Society Yamba Museum |
| Nicole Topic Sosa | Museum of Human Disease |
| Individual Achievement: Paid staff |
| Nominee | Organisation |
| Vivien Clyne | Bank Art Museum Moree |
| Lee-Anne Hall | Penrith Regional Art Gallery |
| Dean Lovett | Museum of Human Disease |
| Ashleigh Weir | Museum of Human Disease |