Results posted: 22 October 2021
81
Projects funded
$3,709,891
Total funding awarded
200
Eligible applications received
$7,727,335
Total funding requested
81 grants totalling $3,709,891 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round, across the three funding pools (General, Māori and Pacific).
Arts Grants offer short-term project funding for New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations (including groups and collectives). This funding enables more sustainable careers, encourages innovation and the development of arts practice, and provides opportunities for diverse communities to access the arts.
Read a summary of this round's results which includes an overview of the results and commentary on our observations about what the strongest applications this round included, both generally (ie across all artforms and applications) as well as artform-specific.
Who got funded this round
81 grants totalling $3,709,891 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round, across the three funding pools (General, Māori and Pacific).
We increased the budget for this round by $1.2 million, drawing on the $5 million we were allocated in September from the Government’s COVID-19 Delta Relief Funding. This allowed us to support an additional 28 projects.
We received 200 eligible applications, with a total of $7,727,335 requested.
This was broken down as follows:
- General Arts: 56 projects totalling $2,269,121 were supported. $5,644,610 was requested by 162 applicants.
- Ngā toi Māori: 13 projects totalling $761,039 were supported. $1,000,309 was requested by 19 applicants.
- Pacific Arts: 12 projects totalling $679,732 were supported. $1,082,416 was requested by 19 applicants.
Also:
- 35 of the funded projects supported the development of arts practice and the creation of new work.
- 19 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to participate in the arts.
- 17 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts.
- 4 supported New Zealand arts to gain international success.
- 6 supported building the resilience of the New Zealand arts sector.
Artforms were supported as follows:
- 9 Community Arts
- 5 Craft/object
- 3 Customary Māori Arts
- 5 Dance
- 4 Interarts
- 15 Literature
- 10 Multidisciplinary Arts
- 9 Music
- 2 Pacific heritage arts
- 9 Theatre
- 10 Visual Arts
Successful applications will lead to 183 activities in the following regions:
- 55 Auckland
- 27 National
- 25 Wellington
- 20 Otago
- 13 Canterbury
- 9 Waikato
- 6 Bay of Plenty
- 5 Manawatu-Whanganui
- 5 Online
- 4 Nelson-Marlborough
- 3 Gisborne
- 3 Hawkes Bay
- 3 Taranaki
- 2 Overseas
- 2 Southland
- 1 Northland
Funded projects
$26,839 - Towards the development of the second draft of the script for the stage play 'Lupahila'.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Ali Foa'i
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$75,000 - Towards associated costs for the Pasifika Pride Festival 2022.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Amanaki Prescott and Phylesha Brown-Acton
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$34,999 - Towards a publication on paintings by Barbara Tuck, supported by exhibitions at Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi and Ramp Gallery.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Anna Miles
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$67,108 - Towards providing an engaging performing arts pathway that enhances youth wellbeing.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Aotearoa Community Wellbeing Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$52,740 - Towards personnel costs for the development of Auckland Fringe Festival's community engagement.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Auckland Fringe Festival
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$19,155 - Towards an interactive performance/installation prescribing artworks at The Performance Arcade 2022.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Audrey Baldwin
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$59,260 - Towards a showcase of iKiribati women makers and wearers of tibuta in Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Barbara Makuati-Afitu
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$33,667 - Towards a week-long workshop and stage reading to support six emerging Black playwrights.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Black Creatives Aotearoa
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$23,400 - To record a full-length album for worldwide release.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Blindfolded and Led to the Woods
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$20,000 - Towards writing the third book in a series about a New Zealand boy during World War II.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Brian Falkner
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$55,577 - To complete an experimental documentary on performance and kinetic artist Peter Roche.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Bridget Sutherland
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$5,000 - To publish a new collection of short-form writing from Frankie McMillan.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Canterbury University Press
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$16,829 - Towards the Ceramics NZ 2022 touring potter programme 'Coil Aotearoa' with Carla Ruka.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Ceramics Association of New Zealand Incorporated
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$22,573 - To remount and tour an outdoor inclusive aerial dance production across Aotearoa New Zealand in 2022.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Chloe Loftus
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$65,100 - Towards a programme investing in the future of Social Circus in Aotearoa by providing pathways for young people to develop, grow and thrive.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Circability Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$69,896 - Towards the development of New Zealand Fringe venues support and a visual arts development project.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Creative Capital Arts Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$28,704 - To create and publish four new books for young people.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: David Riley
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$30,000 - To commission a pair of new works for solo instruments.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Dylan Lardelli
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$51,918 - Towards the filming and touring of accessible devised theatre performance performed in New Zealand Sign Language and spoken English.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Equal Voices Arts
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$36,000 - To deliver Welcome to Nowhere Festival 2022 - a two-day festival showcasing independent music, poetry, comedy, performance and visual art.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Eyegum Music Collective
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$8,200 - Towards writing and editing a book of poetry by Faith Wilson, published by Saufo`i Press.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Faith Wilson
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$22,950 - Towards the re-development of 'Minema', an immersive multidisciplinary experience.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Fantail Creative and Emma Vickers
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,506 - Towards the associated costs of seven events at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2022.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Featherston Booktown
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards performances of 'The Magic Flute' during the Art Deco Festival 2022.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Festival Opera
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$22,000 - To develop and create a new body of work for solo exhibition in Sydney.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Galia Amsel
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$41,200 - To research and develop a body of work on resourcefulness for a new online platform, presented with Urban Dream Brokerage and LIFE, Rotterdam.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Grace Ryder, Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$26,500 - Towards the creation of an anthology of the vibrant poetic voices who have thrived and impacted New Zealand performance poetry in the past 10-15 years.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Grace Taylor and Carolyn Rudzinski
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$10,307 - Towards the development of a Tokelauan double bill theatre project.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Hillary Samuela
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$74,657 - Towards three exhibitions and related public programmes at HOEA! Gallery and Project Space in Te Tairawhiti.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: HOEA! Gallery and Project Space
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$75,000 - Towards 6 pou or similar artworks that will act as a cultural trail for culturally significant areas in Queenstown.
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Ira Collectives
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$23,525 - Towards an arts mentoring project.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Jeanine Clarkin
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$18,782 - To develop new works for online global sharing and further develop ORO ATUA Taonga Puoro.
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Jerome Kavanagh
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$51,731 - Towards a contemporary Bharatanatyam dance production of well-known fairy tales with a feminist twist.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Jignal Bhagvandas
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$37,736 - To compose, perform and live record a series of New Zealand jazz works for a multicultural ensemble.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: John Rae
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,120 - Towards developing 'Bloodlines', a graphic novel centred around and driven by Māori characters.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Johnson Witehira
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$40,849 - Towards Ōtepoti Hip-Hop Hustle (ŌHHH), a live showcase which celebrates the Four Elements of Hip-Hop.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Jonathan Waters
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$43,480 - Towards the research and writing of a significant new book on women artists, to be published by Auckland University Press.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Kirsty Baker
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$21,220 - To collect and distribute brand new Kiwi books to children who would otherwise go without.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Kiwi Christmas Books
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,900 - Towards a project that honours the untapped knowledge of Pasifka ancestors found in fāgogo and fananga.
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Lagi-Maama Academy & Consultancy
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$58,000 - Towards publishing five non-fiction books.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Massey University Press
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$11,830 - Towards three totemic textile taniko sculptures on the gifts and dangers of whano kē - erratic times.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Metiria Turei
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$71,040 - To establish a new Arts Editor role at Metro magazine for 2022.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Metro Magazine and Alana Lopesi
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$14,000 - To record and publish a collection of unheard New Zealand songs.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Michael Vinten
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards developing phase 1 of a Pasifika-centred toolkit for the creative industries in Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Moana Fresh Ltd
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$57,620 - Towards four dance residencies in Ōtautahi Christchurch to expand movement, writing and research practices.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Movement Art Practice
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$27,000 - Towards the development of 'Extanz Volume I: an Epic on Power'.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Nahyeon Lee
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$10,000 - For the Tup Lang Choreographic Award towards development of a site-specific dance work, 'Body of Earth'.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Natasha Kohler
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$25,000 - To support 300 young Aucklanders on an intense theatre development process leading up to an inspirational performance adventure.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: National Youth Theatre Company
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$19,600 - Towards the Nelson Fringe Festival 2022, a multidisciplinary festival supporting emerging artists to showcase new work.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Nelson Fringe Arts Charitable Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$17,778 - To commission Edith Amituanai to create a new body of photographs for presentation within the 2022 Auckland Arts Festival.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: New Zealand Fashion Museum
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$41,350 - Towards a multi-disciplinary theatre show devised by the young people of Ngā Rangatahi Toa.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Nga Rangatahi Toa
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards 'Numb', a musical set in an alternative universe that re-narrates the migrant dream.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Odd Fam
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$74,300 - Towards a series of gatherings to strengthen and develop Ngāi Tahu based arts practitioners in Ōtepoti.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Paemanu
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$75,000 - Towards the research and development of a new collaborative artwork.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Pati Tyrell
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$51,525 - Towards 'Max Volume', a workshop series designed for aspiring musicians aged 13-18 years old.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Pomare Puia
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$41,961 - To create new work with a historical, political and cultural look at the Heretaunga Block, Hawkes Bay using cutting edge technologies for exhibition.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Russ Flat
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - To develop a research-oriented residency programme for artists, arts-related practitioners, and groups to work with Samoa House Library.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Samoa House Library
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$4,000 - To write, illustrate, and publish an entertaining picturebook about Harold the giraffe.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Sarah Johnson and Deborah Hinde
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,100 - Towards a world premiere of a new Pacific dance theatre show 'Manamea'.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Sau E Siva Creatives
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$29,949 - Towards the development rehearsals of an award-winning solo show, 'Waiting'.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Sos & Sha Creative
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,230 - To commission three new chamber ensemble works and to present two concerts.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Stroma New Music Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$73,687 - Towards the first stage of a 3 part new dance development, ‘Te Mata’.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Taane Mete
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$40,000 - Towards the commissioning and presentation of new work for 2022 TAHI Festival.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: TAHI New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$27,374 - To create and publish three issues of takahē magazine: two print issues and one digital issue.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Takahe Collective Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards an art and performance installation on parliament grounds commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Nga Tamatoa tent embassy.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Tame Iti Ltd
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$74,960 - Towards associated costs to develop 'Te Whakawhirinaki Kete', a digital hauora platform for the wellbeing resilience New Zealand's arts sector.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Taurima Vibes
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$60,000 - Towards the development of ©HUR's strategy and the creation of a new body of artwork.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Te Marunui Hotene
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$75,000 - Towards the creation of blown glass vessels for exhibition in 2022.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Te Rongo Kirkwood
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,896 - Towards a public festival and artist wānanga gathering of customary Māori tā moko and world Indigenous tatau practices.
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Te Tuhi Mareikura Trust
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$70,544 - To develop and stage a new Haka Theatre production that engages with Te Arawa purakau and histories.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Te Whare Tapere o Te Arawa
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$54,697 - Towards a wānanga for Māori storytellers to assess the state of Māori arts and literature.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Te Whe
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$20,355 - Towards publishing 'The Agenda Zine Volume 3', a Tāmaki Makaurau-based queer zine with the goal of amplifying queer voices and art to Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: The Agenda Zine
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,968 - Towards the workshop development of a new cirque theatre work, in partnership between Dust Palace and Te Rēhia Theatre.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: The Dust Palace Productions Ltd
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$46,700 - Towards the development of research-based studio furniture works.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Tim Wigmore Design
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$12,000 - To publish an artist book in collaboration with XYZ Books, Portugal and Rim Books, New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Timothy Veling
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,600 - Towards a new Pasifika theatre work 'Alatini' as part of Auckland Arts Festival 2022.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Troy Tu'ua
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$33,000 - Towards The Ursula Bethell Creative New Zealand Residency in Creative Writing for Aotearoa New Zealand writers at the University of Canterbury.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: University of Canterbury
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$44,094 - Towards an established residency programme for a New Zealand writer of children's literature to create imaginative works for young people.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: University of Otago College of Education
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - To commission four Aotearoa New Zealand musicians to compose new music.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Wellington Jazz and Music Festival Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards a performance season of Verdi's 'La Traviata'.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Wellington Opera
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$14,301 - Towards art-making as resistance and response to violence.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Women's Art Initiative Wai Marlborough
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund