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Artist in Residence 2013 - Alice Springs

Gary Lang - Australia Council for the Arts Dance Board Fellowship

Traditional Indigenous Dance Program receives major funding boost

Colours of the Country III - The Alice Springs Beanie Festival

Good Strong Powerful curator Penny Campton wins NT Access Award 2012

Artist in Residence 2013

Applications for Artist in Residence 2013 - Alice Springs - are now closed.

Stay tuned for updates!

Gary Lang - Australia Council for the Arts Dance Board Fellowship

Darwin choreographer Gary Lang was awarded a Dance Board Fellowship by Australia Council for the Arts for 2013/14. The Performing Arts Touring Program will work closely with Gary on his program of activity and professional development during the next few years. This development includes presentations nationally at Dance Massive, creative development with OCHRE Dance Company in Perth and a work in 2014 with contemporary New Zealand Dance companies.

Image: Gary Lang and Rebecca Harris.
Photo: Glenn Campbell

Watch the Stateline interview with Gary here.

Indigenous Traditional Dance Program receives major funding boost

The success of the Indigenous Traditional Dance Program (ITDP) to date has been acknowledged by the Australia Council for the Arts with the confirmation of Creative Communities Partnerships Initiative funding of $508,260 over three years to conduct the program in the Borroloola region.

Additional funding and in-kind support will be supplied by Mabunju Aboriginal Resource Centre, Waralungku Arts and McArthur River Mines, bringing total funding for the project close to $1,000,000.

Read more here.

Also confirmed is in-kind support from the Remote and Rural Enterprise (RARE) Program at the University of Sydney Business School. This support involves student projects and placements to be staged over the three years to assist with strategic planning for the long-term sustainability of the event and growth pathways as it transitions into community ownership.

This will include business modelling, feasibility studies for viable social enterprise opportunities and a practical framework for capturing and measuring social impacts.

Traditional Indigenous Dancers from the Borroloola region. Photographer: Wayne Quilliam.

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Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring is proud to present a third national tour of Colours of the Country. This collection of Beanies, from the Alice Springs Beanie Festival, demonstrates the growth of the Beanie as an art form over the years and the imagination, creativity and fine craftsmanship presented in each piece. The colourful exhibition encapsulates the whimsical essence of the Beanie Festival and also highlights the works produced by Indigenous artists from the Central Desert region who are regular collaborators in this cross-cultural event.
 
An exhibition embraced not only by a broad cross section of the Alice Springs community but also by artists and beanie makers from far and wide, the collection will inspire audiences to laugh, don crazy headwear and bring out those knitting needles all over again.

The exhibition is available in 2014 and will tour until 2017. For more information, and to negotiate dates to have this wonderful exhibition showing at your gallery, please contact:
Neridah Stockley
[e] alicesprings@artbacknt.com.au
[t] (08) 8953 5941

Tour dates here.
More information here.

Above: ‘I love chocolate’, Wool, Yarns, Plastic, Fibre and Fabrics. Penny O'Neill’. 35 x 35cm.
Image courtesy of the Alice Springs Beanie Festival

Left: ‘I’m your fan’, Wool and Felt. Lisa Waller 2011. 40 x 30 x 30cm
Image courtesy of the Alice Springs Beanie Festival

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Good Strong Powerful curator Penny Campton wins NT Access Award 2012

The NT Arts Access Awards were established in 2009 by Arts Access Darwin with support from Arts Access Central Australia, to help promote arts and disability practice in the Northern Territory. Three winners were announced at an awards ceremony at the Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, on Sunday, 9 December 2012. The event was hosted by Arts Access Central Australia and presented by the Hon Mr Matthew Conlan MLA Minister for Arts and Museums.

The Chief Minister’s Award for Excellence in Inclusive Arts through Projects was presented to Penny Campton for Good Strong Powerful.

Good Strong Powerful is an exhibition featuring the works of ten established and emerging Aboriginal artists from three art centres in the Northern Territory: Mwerre Anthurre in Alice Springs; Ngaruwanajirri Inc. in Bathurst Island; and Julalikari Arts in Tennant Creek. Artists featured include Lorna Kantilla, Alfonso Puatjimi, Estelle Munkanome, Billy Benn Perrurle, Adrian Robertson Jangala, Kukula McDonald, Lance James, Peggy Jones Napangardi, Dion Beasley and Billy Kenda.

A collaboration between Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring and curator Penny Campton, the exhibition celebrates the ongoing production of good, strong and powerful art by the featured artists and reflects traditional and contemporary subjects through both painting and drawings. Although living with various forms of disability, the artists represent the strength and knowledge of their community and people and through their work maintain connections to their country.

Penny Campton was the Arts Access Darwin Project Officer for eight years until June 2012.

Billy Kenda Tjampitjinpa, Untitled, 2010, Acrylic paint on Belgian linen, 30 x 30cm

More information about the exhibition, including tour dates, is available here.

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