70 artists and arts and creative organisations, have received funding for 2020, representing one of the largest cohorts of grants recipients ever funded by the City of Melbourne.
Chair of the Arts, Culture and Heritage portfolio, Councillor Rohan Leppert, said the grants provide a major boost for Melbourne's arts scene, with projects stretching from theatre, dance and music to writing, multimedia and visual arts.
"This year's recipients are some of the most diverse we've ever seen and are a testament to the continued growth of our city's renowned arts scene," Cr Leppert said.
"With this funding more than 1,070 artists will be employed to create 1,400 days of arts activity, 74 per cent of which will be completely free to the public.
"I'm proud that Council is continuing to work hard to promote and foster Melbourne's artistic growth as we cement our title as Australia's cultural capital."
This year's grant recipients include:
- Weird Place Fest4, a two-day festival line-up of Australia's most exciting established and up and coming punk, rock, psych, post-punk and garage rock bands.
- Multimedia experience BeeScapes, an immersive VR artwork and documentary experience allowing audiences to experience the world through the senses of a bee.
- Music program Music in Exile, designed to support Melbourne musicians from refugee or migrant backgrounds to showcase their work and break into the music scene.
- A suite of neon works created by Sanja Pahoki entitled The Window, designed to connect the artist with the passing community of workers, residents and visitors.
Councillor Rohan Leppert said the latest round of Arts Grants is part of the City of Melbourne's new Creative Funding Framework.
"Council invests over $4 million into arts and creative outcomes each year by independent artists and arts organisations," Cr Leppert said.
"The framework helps us set out a clear purpose and principles to guide our future investment up to 2024."
For more information about the City of Melbourne's Arts Grants, or the Creative Funding Framework, visit the City of Melbourne Arts Grants website.
SUCCESSFUL 2019 ARTS GRANTS RECIPIENTS:
| Applicant | Artform | Project title |
| Aaron Claringbold | Visual | Leisuretime I |
| ACV studio | Visual | Walnut Gallery |
| Alan Nguyen | Multimedia | BeeScapes |
| Andrew Strano | Theatre, live art | Voyagers: A Song Cycle |
| Bad Bangs | Music | Debut album |
| Bus Projects | Visual | Concentric Curriculum |
| Callum Watson | Music | The Melbourne Suite |
| Chris Kohn | Theatre, live art | La Belle Epoque |
| Chunky Move | Dance | Activators |
| Claudia Hogan and Carla Serrano | Multimedia | Tertulia |
| Constellations | Multimedia | Noisy Rubbish |
| Cordite Publishing Inc | Writing | Annual Un-themed Issue and Two Print Books |
| Efren Pamilacan | Dance | City Sessions |
| Eliza Coyle | Visual | How to Build a Universe |
| Elizabeth Welsh | Music | Harken Well concert season |
| Flinders Quartet Inc | Music | Hear Her Voice |
| Freeplay Inc | Multimedia | Freeplay Independent Games Festival 2020 |
| Henri Korn | Writing | Tomorrow will you still be here? |
| Inventi Ensemble | Music | The Music Space |
| Issey Fujishima | Writing | The Reign of God |
| Applicant | Artform | Project title |
| JB Knibbs | Visual | Suburban Haunts |
| Jo Watson | Writing | Larry Leadbeater |
| Kate Geck | Visual | Pleated Parallax |
| Kate Golding | Visual | Near this spot |
| Laura Delaney | Visual | Rise and Fall |
| Leah Jing McIntosh | Writing | Liminal Magazine |
| Lemony S Puppet Theatre | Theatre, live art | The Melbourne Festival of Puppetry 2020 |
| Logan Mucha | Multimedia | The Precise Moment I Gave Into The Impossible Weight Of Everything |
| Martine Corompt | Multimedia | The Waiting Room |
| Matthias Schack-Arnott | Music | Shifting Ground |
| Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio Ltd (MESS) | Music | MESS Residency Program |
| Melbourne Women in Film Festival | Visual | Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2020 |
| Mia Salsjö | Music | The Quietude |
| Michael Prior | Visual | Solar Eclipse |
| Miranda Hill | Music | Homophonic! |
| Music in Exile | Music | Music in Exile |
| Nathan Barillaro | Visual | Floreat Melba |
| Nicole Breedon | Visual | Pro Prac Podcast and Symposium |
| Olivia Poloni | Visual | The Image |
| Applicant | Artform | Project title |
| Periscope Productions | Theatre, live art | The Human Voice - Redux |
| Plum Green | Music | Somnambulistic |
| Prue Lang | Dance | Project F |
| Rawcus Theatre Company Inc | Theatre, live art | Portal |
| Rebecca Gallo | Visual | Influence Operation |
| Ripley Kavara | Multimedia | Famili |
| River Jiang Arts Inc | Music | Fabulous Chinese New Year Music Culture Show |
| Roshelle Fong | Theatre, live art | Poona |
| Royal Botanic Gardens Board | Theatre, live art | Blak Box |
| Rubiks Collective Pty Ltd | Music | Sideshow |
| Sanja Pahoki | Visual | The Window |
| Sapna Chandu | Visual | Filter my prejudice |
| Scope (Aust) Ltd | Writing | Telescope - Creative Writing |
| Sticky Institute | Visual | The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2020 |
| Tal Fitzpatrick | Visual | Crafting the Next Wave of Resistance |
| The Boite Vic Inc | Music | Death and the Dervish and other tales |
| Applicant | Artform | Project title |
| The Melbourne Cinémathèque Inc | Visual | Breaking Boundaries: Radical and Diverse Voices From Global Cinema |
| Weird Place | Music | Weird Place Fest 4 |
| Yumi Umiumare-Tsuchiya | Dance | DasShoku TeaParTea! |
| Ebony McGuire | Multimedia | Wirun |
| Hayley Millar-Baker | Visual | Australia B-Side |
| Kamarra Bell-Wykes | Theatre, live art | Whose Gonna Love 'Em? |
| Karen Casey | Visual | Transplanted |
| Neika Lehman | Multimedia | Rruytina - above and below |
| Northlands Campaign Community | Visual | Northlands Campaign Historical Story-Sharing Exhibition |
| Patricia Ockwell | Writing | Aunty Pat Ockwell Tells Her Story |
| Steven Rhall | Visual | New Agency Residency Program (NARP) |
| Byron Dean | Music, Multimedia | Art and Heritage Collection |
| Laura Woollett | Writing | Boyd Garret |
| Stephanie Peters | Multi-artform | Boyd Studio-1 |
| Dale Collier | Multi-artform | Boyd Studio-1 |