Nominees 2021
Plein Air at Tamworth Astronomy and Science Centre & Tamworth Regional Museum. Photo by Emma Stilts.
National Military Renactment Group visit, Rocky Hill War Memorial Museum, July 2020. Photo by Kathy Rowe.
Megan Cope, Untitled (Death Song) 2021. Performance by Sonya Holowell, Jonathan Holowell, Melanie Herbert and Niki Johnson. Photograph: Cassandra Hannagan.
Volunters construct the frame of the Lawrence Rural and River Museum’s new shed, an additional display for the museum.
Still from video outcomes of Gudskul workshop ‘Speculative Collective’, part of Pari’s P2P program.
EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES
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| 107 Projects | Untitled.Showa |
| Bank Art Museum Moree | Unveiled: Love, Lace and Longing |
| Fairfield City Museum & Gallery | Here: After |
| Pari | Sports Show |
| S.H. Ervin Gallery | Papunya Tula 50 Years 1971-2021 |
| Shoalhaven Regional Gallery | the TERRA within |
| Shoalhaven Regional Gallery | Wonder + Dread |
| Tamworth Regional Gallery & Museums | Collection Conversion |
| The Lock-Up | miyarnuwimanha – Nicole Monks |
| UTS Gallery | There we were all in one place |
| UNSW Galleries | Megan Cope: Fractures & Frequencies |
| UNSW Galleries | The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W.E.B. Du Bois |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES
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| Australian Design Centre | Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | Chester Nealie: Etched in Fire |
| Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | Critical Mass: The Art of Planetary Health |
| Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | This changes everything |
| Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre | Terra inFirma |
| Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Hello again – it’s nice to see your face: Portraits from the MRAG Collection |
| Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Shadow Boxer |
| Mosman Art Gallery | Wendy Sharpe Ghosts |
| New England Regional Art Museum | Compass: Generations of Walcha Artists |
| Newcastle Art Gallery | WARWAR: The Art of Torres Strait |
| UNSW Galleries | Friendship as a Way of Life |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES
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| Art Gallery of New South Wales | Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize |
| Campbelltown Arts Centre | Space YZ |
| Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | Bittersweet |
| Murray Art Museum Albury | 20:20 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia | Richard Bell: You Can Go Now |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS
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| Alison Homestead Museum (Wyong District Museum & Historical Society) | Aboriginal Mural |
| Jervis Bay Maritime Museum | Munggura-Nggul: Home Belong |
| Moree Plains Museum | Love and Lace, Long Ago |
| Moruya Museum | Illuminated: The Art of Children’s Book Illustration |
| Rocky Hill War Memorial Museum | Objects of National Significance: When war trophies came to Goulburn |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS
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| Albury LibraryMuseum | Collections From the Asylum: Past Lives, Present Tense |
| Albury LibraryMuseum | Earth Canvas: Linking Artists and Regenerative Farmers |
| Customs House, City of Sydney | Developing Sydney: Capturing Change 1900-1920 |
| Fairfield City Museum & Gallery | Travelling Sounds: Music & Migration in Western Sydney |
| Hawkesbury Regional Museum | Uncovered |
| Hurstville Museum & Gallery | Striving for Gold: Olympians of St George |
| Ironbark Gallery, Strathfield Council Library & Innovation Hub | Strathfield Answers the Call 1914-1918 |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS – MUSEUMS
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| Australian Museum | Unsettled |
| Chau Chak Wing Museum | Gululu dhuwala djalkiri |
| Old Government House (National Trust of Australia – NSW) | Enquiring Minds |
| Sydney Living Museums | Paradise on Earth |
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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| Moree Plains Museum | Love and Lace, Long Ago |
| Pari | P2P |
| Tamworth Astronomy and Science Centre & Tamworth Regional Museum | Sky Canvas |
| The Lock-Up | How to Make A Parrot Workshop |
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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| Australian Design Centre | Design Isolate |
| Bathurst Rail Museum | Bathurst Vintage Rail Weekend |
| Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | Banha (Truly) Belong |
| Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | Critical Mass: Community Engagement Programs |
| Grafton Regional Gallery | Capturing the Magic of the Clarence |
| Lismore Regional Gallery | Community Engagement Activities |
| Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Saturday: When Commercial Artists Go Rogue |
| Newcastle Art Gallery | WARWAR: The Art of Torres Strait |
| Shoalhaven Regional Gallery | Art Detectives |
| Temora Aviation Museum | Virtual Reality Tour |
| UNSW Galleries | Forms of Being Together |
| UTS Gallery & Art Collection | There we were all in one place |
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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| Chau Chak Wing Museum | Academic Engagement: Object Based Learning Program |
| Murray Art Museum Albury | Radical Book Club |
| Sydney Living Museums | Who Goes Here? by Fiona Hall |
INNOVATION & RESILLIENCE
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| Australian Design Centre | Design Isolate |
| Grafton Regional Gallery | Get Creative in the Clarence |
| Hambledon Cottage Museum (Parramatta & District Historical Society) | New Website and Virtual Reality Tour |
| Southern Highlands Artisans Collective | DREAM BIG |
| Sydney Living Museums | Go Back to the Past at Vaucluse House: Live Virtual Event |
| Tamworth Regional Gallery | Blindspot |
| Tweed Regional Museum | Let’s Play: Museum Treasure Hunt |
INNOVATION & RESILLIENCE
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| Art Gallery of New South Wales | AGNSW Arts in Health MPS Pilot Project: Outreach Into Residential Aged Care in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District |
| Bankstown Arts Centre | Symbiosis: 2020 Bankstown Biennale |
| Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Our Place Co-Design Project |
| Murray Art Museum Albury | DIWIL Writers Program |
| Parramatta Artists’ Studios | Riverina Partnership: On the Space of Artists |
INNOVATION & RESILLIENCE
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| Lawrence Rural & River Museum | Lawrence Unlocked |
Imagination Award |
| Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Celebrating art + architecture + Country |
| Old Government House (National Trust of Australia – NSW) | Making Good: Artist in Residence |
| Port Macquarie Museum | Illuminate & Activate |
| Sutherland Shire Historical Society | Bass & Flinders: Behaving very civilly |
The ACHAA Award for Excellence by an Aboriginal Curator |
| Laura McBride, Australian Museum | Unsettled |
| Matt Poll, Chau Chak Wing Museum | Ambassadors and Embassies |
| Warwick Keen, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery | the TERRA within |
| Marika Duczynski, State Library of NSW | Dyarubbin |
The IMAGinE awards are an initiative of Museums & Galleries of NSW, developed with support from Australian Museums and Galleries Association NSW and Regional and Public Galleries of NSW.
