The Coronet #10 May 2019

Aword from our CEO Many hands make great work

Alena Lodkina, Strange Colours 2017.

Welcome to the first edition of The Coronet for 2019. It has been a busy start to the year forThe Ian Potter Cultural Trust team.

In March we were delighted to announce Gabriella Hirst as the winner of the 2020 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission (IPMIC). Gabriella Hirst is a visual artist working primarily with video and performance, investigating social and personal approaches to permanence and slippage. We look forward to seeing the development of her new work, a commentary on the preservation of the Murray Darling Basin, in the year ahead.

I would also like to congratulateAngelica Mesiti, the inaugural IPMIC winner, on the opening of her workASSEMBLYfor theAustralian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Earlier this year we welcomed new staff member Nina Beer to our team. Nina has taken on the role of Communications Officer and brings a range of past experience including launching a community art collective. Nina has taken the reins from Eleanor, who has returned to full-time study to commence a Masters of Social Work.

This month we awarded grants to a new round of artists.Acommon theme throughout the grant applications was the desire to collaborate with artists and organisations abroad. While often considered a solo pursuit, creative practice is undoubtedly enriched through working with others, perhaps most deeply for artists at the start of their career journeys. In this edition, we questioned our grantees about collaboration. From creative partnerships to idea sharing with scientists, they shed light on what different perspectives bring to their creative practices.

Gabriella Hirst wins IPMIC 2020

The $100,000 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission for 2020 has been awarded to Gabriella Hirst, a visual and performance artist based in Sydney and London.

From a highly competitive field of candidates, Hirst impressed judges with her timely proposal Darling Darling (working title), which will parallel the precise and elaborate care taken to preserve colonial paintings of the Australian landscape with the real-world preservation of the Murray Darling Basin.

The work will have its world premiere at ACMI in 2020.

Round 1, 2019

New grantees

The first round of 2019 saw the second highest number of applications in the Trust's history. Out of a competitive pool of 90+ applications, 19 emerging artists were awarded $155,296 in grants. Our latest grantees will travel to nine different countries, including China, Israel and the Canary Islands, undertaking a range of professional development programs in areas such as ceramics, publishing and comedy improvisation.

Below we explore the role collaboration plays for emerging artists and their practice. Our grantees discuss creative partnerships, collaborating with mentors, learning from professionals from outside the arts field and the benefits a multi-faceted view can bring to creative practice.

Congratulations to our latest grantees, we look forward to seeing what you make of your overseas projects and opportunities.Acomplete list of our most recent grantees can be found onThe CulturalTrust website

Grantee news

Angelica

Mesiti at the Venice Biennale

Congratulations to inaugural Ian Potter Moving Image Commission winner, Angelica Mesiti, on representingAustralia at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Aperformance, video and installation artist, Mesiti was selected by the Australian Council for theArts to create an installation for theAustralian Pavilion. Mesiti’s installation is comprised of a three-screen video, titledASSEMBLY, and was created in partnership with critically acclaimed Curator Juliana Engberg.

ASSEMBLYhas been purchased by the National Gallery ofAustralia and will tour Australia in 2020.

New grantees PerformanceArts

Chloe Martin and Alexandra Hines

New grantee Multimedia

Alena Lodkina

Two of our new grantees,Alexandra Hines and Chloe Martin, come as a duo. While trained in disparate acting methods, Chloe in mime and clown techniques andAlex in Meissner and Chubbuck techniques, they are making waves with their work together in the comedy web series DeeBrief.

"Our approaches really contrast, but the outcome is good. If I had to put my finger on what we share, it’s a sense of humour and a sense of fury. We care about the

Filmmaker and new grantee,Alena Lodkina is undertaking a three months artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts under the mentorship of French script consultant and editor Mary Stephen. During this time,Alena will develop the first draft for the feature film PETROL. We caught up with her to find out about the project and to discuss the role of collaboration in filmmaking.

"I think a film director is a sort of funnel for the collective consciousness of people who come together to make a film. In an

same issues, we have the same appetite, we have the same work ethic. We are learning a lot from each other."

early stage of a project though, collaboration is a bit more mercurial; unexpected things and experiences can inform the ideas in a script."

Grantee story

Grantee story

Anna Madeleine

Jonathon Heilbron is a double bass player, improviser and composer, working within the areas of contemporary, classical, improvised and experimental music. In 2018 Jonathon was supported to undergo a four-week intensive mentorship, research, study and networking period in Oslo,Trondheim and Berlin.

In this interview, he reflects on the experience and the creative partnerships with his mentors that have flourished since his grant.

Mixed media and augmented reality artist Anna Madeleine was awarded a Cultural Trust grant in 2018. DuringAnna's development tour in France, she collaborated with scientists at HM&Co Lab, École des Ponts, ParisTech.

"Collaborators can provide another way of understanding the same theme which can be really influential in how I am portraying an idea, both aesthetically and conceptually. I find this particularly important when working with scientific concepts, to retain integrity to the information I’m portraying. It also opens up the work to broader audiences outside of the arts, which often leads to new directions and collaborations elsewhere."

Apply for a grant Funding Round Dates

The current round of Cultural Trust grants closes onTuesday 21 May 2019. Please note this round is for projects or travel after 20 September 2019.

For all information regarding current and future funding rounds, please visit The Cultural Trust website. The Ian Potter Cultural Trust is fully funded by The Ian Potter Foundation, a major Australian philanthropic foundation that supports and promotes excellence and innovation.

Copyright © 2019 The Ian Potter Foundation, All rights reserved.

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