| BOOK LAUNCH @ Storey Hall, RMIT University
1-3 PM AEST, 17 OCTOBER 2023 Join us to celebrate the book launch of Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White, published with Monash University Publishing. The event will feature short readings from artists and writers featured in the book. This is an important new publication that positions social and cultural difference at the heart of contemporary art discourses.
Variation’ is a term that embraces difference and is core to the excitement and uniqueness of art practice. This book gives much-deserved attention to the work of artists with exceptional and varied lived experiences – including neurodiversity, diverse mental health, incarceration, and refugee, migrant and Muslim backgrounds – to transform how we understand contemporary visual art.
The book features co-authorship and contributions from Safdar Ahmed & Izabella Antoniou, Samantha Ashdown, Thelma Beeton, Michael Camakaris, Frances Castles, Dewi Cooke, Simon Crosbie, Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin & Janet Kalidjan Marawarr, Charles Green, Jenny Hickinbotham, Christopher Hummell, Zeina Iaali,Javier Lara-Gomez, Anthony Mannix, Thomas ‘Marksey’ Marks, Brian McKinnon, Anna Parlane, Meagan Pelham, Hamed Rayat, Lisa Reid, Miream Salameh, Skye Saxon, Helen Sheferaw, Nur Shkembi, Patricia Stewart, Muhubo Sulieman, Tabz, Shireen Taweel, Wart and A Qasim Zada. |
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DESIGNER TALK @First Site Gallery, RMIT University
1-3 PM AEDT, 25 OCTOBER 2023 Experience the work of contemporary Vietnamese fashion designers, Tom Trandt Minh Đạo from Moi Dien and Pham Hoang Linh from Linht Handicraft, and learn more about global approaches to sustainable and ethical fashion. This pop up and event will be hosted at First Site Gallery at RMIT University. About Tom and Linh Tom Trandt is a fashion designer, born and raised in Vietnam. He graduated from Parsons the New School for Design, New York in 2016, obtaining a degree in BFA in Fashion Design. He opened his studio - Moi Dien - in 2016 in Saigon, Vietnam where he has a focus on using sustainable materials to design into ungendered garments. Pham Hoang Linh graduated from Hue University of Arts in 2013, before moving to Sapa in 2014 to build and grow her business. In 2014, Linh founded Linht handicraft, a brand of clothes made from natural, naturally dyed fabrics of ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam. |
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Image: Book cover, published by Thế Giới Publishers. Hanoi, Vietnam. April 2023 |
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BOOK LAUNCH @First Site Gallery, RMIT University
12 -1.30 PM AEDT, 26 OCTOBER 2023
Join us for the welcome for our đây đó (here/there) guests and book launch. đây đó (here/there) is a Vietnamese-Australian research project promoting contemporary design practice while sustaining traditional forms of art and craft practice in the wake of rapid development and global challenges in Vietnam and Australia from 2021-3. Continuing this project in Australia, Tom Trandt and Pham Hoang Linh were two of our designer/craftspeople who were mentored by Vietnamese and Australian mentors to develop their designs for international audiences and markets. They will be presenting their designs at First Site Gallery. Becky Lu is one of RMIT Vietnamese staff leading this project. Please join us in welcoming them to Australia.
https://here-there.au/en/ As part of this event we will also be launching the new publication by author
Kerry Nguyễn-Long - Vietnam Visual Arts in History Religion & Culture. "Vietnam has a long and rich visual culture which deserves greater recognition free from dated misunderstandings. In a broad survey this new book Vietnam Visual Arts in History Religion & Culture significantly revises, updates and expands on the theme introduced in Arts of Việt Nam 1009 – 1945 published in 2013 to present new developments and archaeological finds. It explains Vietnam’s distinctive iconography and inclusive belief systems and how they manifest in the visual arts, its syncretic and pantheistic culture and its place within the larger vibrant visual culture." |
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PRIDE FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA
Closing Date: 6 October 2023
The Pride Foundation Australia are pleased to announce their next large grant round to a total value of $20,000 with a focus on LGBTQIA+ refugees and people seeking asylum. Grant applications should be to the value of up to $20,000 over two years. |
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CREATIVE AUSTRALIA
Closing Date: 10 October 2023
Flourish III provides grants of up to $50,000 to build sustainable businesses and support economic, cultural and social development opportunities. The opportunity is open to First Nations individuals, groups and organisations (including Art Centres) working in the textile design and fashion sector. Grants can be used to support innovation, production, capacity building, marketing, professional development, seed funding and/or increasing digital visibility. |
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CREATIVE VICTORIA
Closing Date: 17 October 2023
Making Space is an infrastructure grants program designed to improve accessibility in Victorian creative workspaces and venues. The program is delivered by Arts Access Victoria on behalf of the Victorian Government. Making Space is open to organisations and collectives that are Deaf and Disability led or show a commitment to disability leadership. Deaf and Disability led applicants will be prioritised. Making Space offers grants of $50,000 - $100,000. |
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
Closing Date: 22 October 2023
The Carstairs Grant aims to support socially engaged art projects that embrace participatory and collaborative experiences, bring participants into active dialogue with the artist/s in order to involve audiences beyond the art community. The grant is intended to contribute to artwork production costs to assist the successful applicant/s to develop and present new work. In recognition of ongoing public health concerns and the challenges they can pose to participatory experiences, proposals may, but are not required to, consider the digital and virtual space as a valid and essential arena for collaborative artistic endeavour. One individual or group is awarded $10,000 + GST. |
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ARTS ACCESS
Closing Date: 23 October 2023
The Lesley Hall Scholarship is an annual program for Victorian Deaf and Disabled artists and advocates. The scholarship is a $5,000 grant. This program supports a Deaf or Disabled artist, arts workers and creatives living in Victoria who use their creative practice to advocate for Deaf and Disabled people. We are looking for Deaf and Disabled artists, arts workers and creatives who create works challenging assumptions about disability. |
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REGIONAL ARTS VICTORIA
Closing Date: 31 October 2023
Quick Response Grants funds professional development opportunities for artists and arts workers or small project opportunities. The program supports the immediate need that arises where the activity is unable to be planned for or supported in other funding rounds, for example taking up professional development, skills development or small project opportunities at short notice. You can apply for Quick Response Grants up to $3,000 for individuals and $5,000 for organisations. |
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