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Translate Issue 11, September 2019
A word from our CEO
Sustaining artistic vision
Georgia Saxelby at the opening night of Lullaby at the Australian Embassy, Washington, DC. Image credit: Jenny Magee.
Congratulations to the 19 emerging artists awarded Cultural Trust grants in the second funding round for 2019. A common theme in all grantee applications and subsequent project reports is an abiding passion for their artistic practice. This is particularly evident in the thought-provoking work of two new grantees – new media artist Michael Candy and poet Eunice Andrada – which invites the questions ‘where does the journey of an artist’s practice begin?' and 'what draws each artist to their respective mediums?’. Both Andrada and Candy’s work touches on ecology and sustainability. However, due to their disparate practices these issues are communicated in different and surprising ways. Andrada explores climate change through poetry and has performed her work at the UN Climate Negotiations in Paris. Candy has created a synthetic pollenizer, describing his work as a conceptual intervention in real-world ecological systems. In late 2018, the Board of The Ian Potter Foundation (which funds the Cultural Trust)