The Coronet #16 June 2021

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A word from our CEO

The beginning and the end

Gabriella Hirst's DARLING DARLING, Ian Potter Moving Image Commission 2020, now exhibited at ACMI.

Over the past three decades, The Ian Potter Foundation and The Ian Potter Cultural Trust have supported Art Commissions in various forms to support established artists creating in the mediums of sculpture, music composition, and currently moving image art.

Last month, we were delighted to announce Angela Tiatia as the winner of the final $100,000 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission (IPMIC). It is both the beginning of an exciting new work and the end of a decade-long series of commissions in moving image art. The IPMIC 2022 judging panel was so impressed with the competitive pool of applicants, that for the first time the Cultural Trust and ACMI will support three runner-up artists via a six-month Creative Development and Mentorship Program.

You can learn more about IPMIC 2022 winner Angela Tiatia, her commissioned work Liminal Persuasion (working title), and the Creative Development and Mentorship Program grantees below.

The long-awaited premiere exhibition of IPMIC 2020 Darling Darling by Gabriella Hirst Subscribe Past Issues opened at ACMI in February. The planned 2020 premiere of the commission was postponed due to ACMI’s extended closure as a result of its redevelopment works and

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COVID-19 restrictions. I would like to congratulate Gabriella on her outstanding new work which contrasts the preservation of a colonial painting of the Darling River and the reality of environmental preservation in the Barka Darling region.

Darling Darling highlights the critical importance of preserving Australia’s freshwater resources. It is my hope that the recent establishment of an independent water and catchment policy centre, supported by The Ian Potter Foundation and a coalition of 16 Australian philanthropic foundations, will be a catalyst for change in how this precious resource is managed.

With IPMIC slowly coming to a close and our emerging artist development grants paused due to travel restrictions, we have initiated an evaluation of the Cultural Trust's grant programs. The evaluation will seek to understand how the Cultural Trust grant programs benefit artists and how we might improve the impact of the Trust’s grants. We look forward to the new insights we will gain from this process.

Lastly, I hope that you are all safe, healthy, and able to pursue your creative goals despite the continued disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Craig Connelly CEO

2020 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission

Darling Darling

Gabriella Hirst on DARLING DARLING, ACMI YouTube.

The long-awaited premiere exhibition of IPMIC 2020 Darling Darling by Gabriella Hirst opened at ACMI in February. Darling Darling presents two contrasting visions of the Barka Darling River in dialogue with each other and explores the contradictions in how we revere

nature in art yet exploit and degrade it in reality. The major moving image Subscribe Past Issues installation explores notions of care, containment, and how depictions of nature reveal underlying cultural and political values.

Owing to new circuit-breaker restrictions keeping Victorians safe, ACMI and the Darling Darling exhibition are currently closed. Learn more about Darling Darling in the video above.

Ian Potter Moving Image Commission 2022

Angela Tiatia awarded IPMIC 2022

Artist Angela Tiatia.

The final in a decade-long Ian Potter Moving Image Commission (IPMIC) series has been awarded to paint, sculpture, video installation, and performance artist Angela Tiatia.

The $100,000 commission will make possible Tiatia’s new video work, Liminal Persuasions (working title), which will have its world premiere at ACMI in 2022 and enter the ACMI Collection.

Tiatia's work explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism, and the commodification of the body and place.

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Creative Development and Mentorship Program

Additional grants for IPMIC 2022

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and ACMI will support three Ian Potter Moving Image Commission 2022, runner-up artists, through a six-month Creative Development and Mentorship Program. Each artist will receive $20,000 while ACMI staff will provide their expertise and support to help with the development of their proposed artworks.

The grants have been awarded to Pilar Mata Dupont for her proposed work La Piedra, Roberta Joy Rich for her proposed work traced. and Nicholas Mangan for his proposed work Core Coralations.

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Grantee stories

Adapting: Art in the time of Coronavirus The following case studies provide insight into the personal experiences of our grantee community and the effect COVID-19 has had on their professional development plans, creative practice, and personal wellbeing.

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Graham Akhurst Graham Akhurst is an Aboriginal writer and academic from the Kokomini of Northern Queensland. With the aid of a

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Cultural Trust grant, Graham began the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Fiction at Hunter College, New York.

When New York City became a COVID-19 epicentre, Graham made the difficult decision to stay in the United States while completing his course online.

Read now Emily Jane Read West Australian contemporary musician Emily Jane Read was awarded a Cultural Trust grant to undertake training at recording studio Hyperballad Music in New York, and attend the SXSW 2020 conference in Austin. Emily reflects on the impact of her development project being interrupted mid-way by the onset of COVID-19 in the United States, and the pandemic's effect on Australian artists.

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Funding rounds

Travel bans Funding rounds will not open until 2022 in line with the Australian Government travel ban and the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ian Potter Cultural Trust team will be monitoring smartraveller.gov.au and when the situation improves we will announce new funding round dates via our website and social media.

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust is fully funded by The Ian Potter Foundation, a major Australian philanthropic foundation that supports and promotes excellence and innovation.

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