We’re committed to investing in the arts and supporting our city's creative community, especially when times are tough. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we're providing $2 million in grants to artists and creatives to invest in new works, and digital presentation of works and performances.
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Take a look through the works that have been made possible through our quick response arts grants.
The clouds have died
When Laura Carthew's exhibition 'The clouds have died', was affected by Victoria's first wave of coronavirus, it became clear that she had to try to film the installation in situ to reach an audience online.
Wandering Amid The Alienated Phantasms
The sound piece reflects upon the devastations of Australia’s recent bushfires, exploring the current state of ecology where animal lives are entangled with capitalist economies. Questioning events and circumstances based around loss and extinction.
A Strange Nostalgia
Life in self-isolation prompts recording artist LHĒON to perform a retelling of a house party using nothing more than multiple camera phones and her band online to support her live vocals.
Kent
Through a coding system Tia Ansell translates architectural references of geometries and gridations that exist within our urban landscapes into intricately patterned weaving-paintings produced on her floor loom that are influenced by the art movements of Constructivism and Bauhaus.
Social Syncopation
Wielding Theatre brings you Social Syncopation, a two-part video tutorial that welcomes you to make your own cowboy-themed costume and Country and Western composition!
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