TWENTY-nine local creatives and groups will receive quick turn-around grants of $200 to $1000 each to support activities that help them make art or run their activities in new ways.
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Arts OutWest received close to 40 applications during the one-week application period.
The regional arts development organisation provided the grants from money they haven't been able to use on their core program this year.
AOW executive director Tracey Callinan said the grants program made funding available to a number of first-time applicants.
"Many of the applications came from artists and creatives who have never come forward to us before for funding, people who found themselves asking for support for the first time," Ms Callinan said.
The funding was open to arts related requests from individuals, organisations or arts-based businesses in the Arts OutWest region. Projects had to offer ways of improving the negative effects of Covid-19 on the applicants' arts practice or community.
Among the grant recipients was Bathurst artist Amala Groom who will use the money to cover the purchase of art materials as she prepared work for the Venice Biennale 2021; Bathurst Seymour Centre who will engage a local photographer to help centre to offer clients tips ahead of a small exhibition in late 2020; and Bathurst Theatre Company who will work in partnership with radio station 2MCE to produce a series of seven monologues for blokes and about blokes called Blokes Don't Talk, covering themes such as domestic violence, depression, family break up, sexuality, war.
For a full list of the recipients visit our website at artsoutwest.org.au/arts-outwest-micro-grants-announced/
Groom's art prize win
NOW in its sixth year, the Wyndham Art Prize attracts entries from some of the best artists across Australia.
Big congratulations to Bathurst-based artist Amala Groom, winner of the 2020 Wyndham Art Prize with her sculptural work titled Copywrong, 2018.
Groom's work, a form of passionate activism, presents acute and incisive commentary on contemporary socio-political issues.
Articulated across diverse media, Groom's work often subverts and unsettles western iconographies to enunciate Aboriginal stories, experiences and histories, and to interrogate and undermine the legacy of colonialism. For the full story go to artsoutwest.org.au/amala-groom-wins-the-2020-wyndham-art-prize/
Public art peers register
BATHURST Regional Council is seeking suitably qualified and passionate individuals to join its Public Art Community Peers Register.
The register is designed to assist council as it develops a strategic approach to the creative activation of thecregion's public spaces in line with the Bathurst Public Art Policy.
Members of the community with professional expertise or demonstrated interest in public art, visual art, the built environment, heritage, and /or community engagement are encouraged to nominate.
Nominations close at 5pm on Friday, May 22. To apply, visit www.bathurstart.com.au. For more information contact Bathurst Regional Art Gallery on 6333 6555 or email brag@ bathurst.nsw.gov.au.
