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New grantee Anna May Kirk's work: Year without a Sun (2023), volcanic sand from Mount Tambora, glass, mild steel frame, video, projector, circular projection screen, 14min. Image: courtesy of the artist and Jessica Maurer
Welcome to the final issue of The Coronet for 2024.
As another busy year ends, I am able to reflect on all the work undertaken by the Trust to support Australian artists and performers – from its long-standing Emerging Artists Grants program to newer programs designed to support mid-career performers and artists in collaboration with the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and The Sidney Myer Fund I encourage you to read about these new initiatives and our 2023–24 grant recipients in our latest Annual Grants Report.
Congratulations to the 24 emerging artists who were awarded Emerging Artist Grants in our latest funding round enabling them to travel internationally and pursue
professional development opportunities.
We are also pleased to announce the recipients of the second year of the Ian Potter Emerging Performers Fellowships – flautist Eliza Shephard and percussionist Kaylie Melville. Both ANAM and the Trust are proud to be able to support these talented musicians as they pursue their professional ambitions over the next two years.
We joined the Sidney Myer Fund's Creative Fellowships program this year, which awards $200,000 over two years to Australian mid-career creatives Congratulations to our inaugural Ian Potter Creative Fellows – composer-performer James Rushford and writer Josephine Rowe who will embark on their Fellowship journeys in the new year
From 2025, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust will only run two Emerging Artist Grant funding rounds per year. Round One for 2025 is currently open, and Round Two will open in April 2025. Artists who have their sights set on a grant for artistic professional development in mid-2025 will need to apply in this current open round (closing 14 January 2025).
Even though 2024 is coming to a close, our grantees are by no means slowing down. Many are exhibiting their work at various galleries in Australia and New Zealand this summer (see below for more details)
On behalf of the Trust, we wish all our grantees and the arts community a joyous holiday season and a happy New Year.
Paul Conroy CEO
Round 3, 2024
New grantees
In our last funding round, 24 emerging artists were awarded $294,459 in grants, enabling them to undertake professional development opportunities across 15 different countries, from Norway to Mexico.
For the full list of new grantees, check out the link below.
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Announcement
Ian Potter Emerging Performers Fellows
Dance grantee Yuiko Masukawa Image: Sasha Kane
Left: Kaylie Melville, image by Bryony Jackson Right: Eliza Shephard, image by Cameron Jamieson
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The Ian Potter Emerging Performers Fellowship Program is a collaboration between the Trust and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) It supports two ANAM alumni in pursuing careers that fall outside the traditional orchestral pathways.
We are delighted to announce the two new Fellows for 2025: Kaylie Melville (percussion) and Eliza Shephard (flute).
Melville and Shephard will each receive $100,000 in financial support from the Trust as well as tailored mentoring support from ANAM over two years so they can develop their unique performance practices.
Announcement
Ian Potter Creative Fellows
The Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships program began in 2011 to provide unrestricted, tax-free grants of $200,000 over two years to individual Australian artists, creatives, and cultural leaders. The Fellowships are intended to provide artists with the time, space and resources to develop their practice in peace and to take creative risks without fear.
Earlier this year, the Trust joined this program providing funding for two Creative Fellows each year. We are excited to announce the inaugural Ian Potter Creative Fellowship recipients: James Rushford (contemporary music) and Josephine Rowe (literature).
Left: Josephine Rowe, image by Dom Krapski. Right: James Rushford, image by Keelan O'Hehir.
Round 1, 2025 Applications Open
2018 Emerging
and 2025
Applications for our Emerging Artist Grants are currently open. Grants of up to $15,000 are available to support professional development opportunities for emerging artists from any arts practice.
Applications close: Tuesday 14 January 2025 at 5PM AEDT.
For travel/projects after: Thursday 10 April 2025
Grants announced: Early April 2025
To prepare your application, please see our guidelines below
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What's On Grantee News
Former
Artist Grantee
Emerging Performers Fellow, Kaylie Melville. Image: Alt Grafico
Still from The Dark Current (2023). Image: courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf
The final work from our Ian Potter Moving Image Commission series, The Dark Current by Angela Tiatia, is showing at Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand until 27 April 2025.
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2024 Grantee
Truc Truong
Truc Truong. Image: Jack Fenby.
Visual artist Truc Truong is the winning recipient of Guildhouse's Catapult + Adelaide Fringe Mentorship Program
This program will help Truong develop welding skills and steel fabrication techniques, literally strengthening her assemblage and installation practice
Truong's new work will be presented as part of Adelaide Fringe 2025.
2019 Grantee Anna Madeleine
Anna Madeleine during her residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2019 Image: courtesy of the artist.
Multidisciplinary artist Anna Madeleine's cyanotype parachute will be hanging in AGSA, Adelaide Part of AGSA's Radical Textiles exhibition, the parachute will be on display until 30 March 2025
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2023 Grantee
Julia Gutman
Julia Gutman Image: courtesy of the artist
Julia Gutman's latest textile work life in third person is now showing at AGWA, Perth, until 16 February 2025. AGWA commissioned Gutman to create this major new work.
Julia previously undertook a series of international residencies using our Emerging Artist Grant In 2023, she also won the prestigious Archibald Prize.
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2023 Grantee Rama Parwata
Rama Parwata Image: Nathan Goldsworthy
Musician and composer Rama Parwata composed the soundscape for Pulau, a performance commissioned for AsiaTOPA and NGV’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition as a site-specific response to the artist's iconic body of work
Pulau will premiere on 22–23 February 2025 at NGV International, Melbourne.
2024 Grantee Ray Lin
Ray Lin Image: courtesy of the artist
Composer Ray Lin is one of the winners of the 2024 Australian Music Composition Competition
Lin is currently in London starting his Master of Music in Screen Composition, supported by the Trust's Emerging Artist Grant Happy Holidays Office Closure Read more View more
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Please note that our office will be closed from Friday 20 December 2024 through to Monday 6 January 2025.
If you have any questions regarding an application for the Emerging Artist Grants in this funding round, please send a brief message and your contact number to: culturaltrust@ianpotter org au
Our team will respond when the office reopens in the new year For now, we wish all our grantees and the arts community a safe and happy festive season.
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Image: Still from 2019 grantee Alena Lodkina's film Strange Colours (2017)