NSW arts and culture gets $5 million boost
Sprung!! Senior Dance Ensemble in O’How I Dreamt of Things Impossible development 2019, NORPA L – R: Kane Shields, Tallula Bourne, Max McAuley, Tara Coughlan, Sinead Skorka Brennan, Zac Mifsud, Alice Bosheinen. Photo by: Kate Holmes Photographer.
The NSW Government is investing more than $5 million in the State’s arts and cultural sector through Round 1 of Create NSW’s 2020/21 Arts and Cultural Funding Program.
Minister for the Arts, Don Harwin announced 97 recipients throughout NSW will share in $5.045 million funding to deliver arts and cultural activity, with nearly 60 per cent of funded activity occurring in Western Sydney and Regional NSW. Mr Harwin said the funding will support projects that are key to the State’s cultural life and contribute to a thriving and connected arts and cultural sector.
Outback Arts are very pleased to report that artist Victor Bartley has been successful in securing a portion of this funding ($18,500) for Bourke’s Percy Hobson Mural project. This water tower mural will honour Percy Hobson, an Indigenous athlete and native of Bourke, who was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth British Empire Games (for the high jump) in 1962.
Jamie-Lea Trindall, Outback Arts Executive Director, is a member of the Aboriginal Arts & Culture Artform Advisory Board ensuring the strength and diversity of regional NSW art and culture scene is well represented at a state level.
“Arts and cultural organisations and individual artists in regional NSW will benefit from more than $1.7 million in funding as the NSW Government continues to show its commitment to supporting the recovery of local communities. This funding will support programs and projects estimated to employ over 6,000 artists and reach more than 1.4 million people across the State.“ said Mr Harwin.
Round 1 also includes more than $535,000 for projects and programs that are Aboriginal-led or have a significant
focus on First Nations content, including support for Sunshine Super Girl – The Evonne Goolagong Story by Andrea James to take the stage at this year’s All-Australian Sydney Festival, and funding for a new public program at the Armidale Region Aboriginal Cultural Centre & Keeping Place.
