Results posted: 3 December 2021
82
Projects funded
$3,643,590
Total funding awarded
211
Eligible applications received
$8,559,508
Total funding requested
82 grants totalling $3,643,590 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.
Who got funded this round
82 grants totalling $3,643,590 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 211 eligible applications, with a total of $8,559,508 requested.
This was broken down as follows:
- General Arts: 59 projects totalling $2,583,370 were supported. $6,749,407 was requested by 172 applicants.
- Ngā toi Māori: 14 projects totalling $607,672 were supported. $1,098,411 was requested by 24 applicants.
- Pacific Arts: 9 projects totalling $452,548 were supported. $711,690 was requested by 15 applicants.
Also:
- 41 of the funded projects supported the development of arts practice and the creation of new work.
- 15 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts.
- 14 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to participate in the arts.
- 6 supported New Zealand arts to gain international success.
- 6 supported building the resilience of the New Zealand arts sector.
Artforms were supported as follows:
- 8 Community Arts
- 7 Craft/object
- 3 Customary Māori Arts
- 11 Dance
- 1 Interarts
- 12 Literature
- 12 Multidisciplinary Arts
- 6 Music
- 1 Pacific heritage arts
- 10 Theatre
- 11 Visual Arts
Successful applications will lead to 201 activities in the following regions:
- 54 Auckland
- 32 Wellington
- 14 Canterbury
- 13 Northland
- 12 Hawkes Bay
- 11 National
- 10 Otago
- 9 Gisborne
- 6 Online
- 8 Manawatu-Whanganui
- 8 Waikato
- 7 Overseas
- 5 Nelson-Marlborough
- 5 Taranaki
- 3 Bay of Plenty
- 4 Southland
Funded projects
$34,367 - Towards a New Zealand production tour to Auckland, Kerikeri, Whangārei and Hamilton.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: A Mulled Whine
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards a range of creative programmes based on spoken word poetry and youth expression.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Action Education Incorporated
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$28,206 - Towards the further development of an original New Zealand play.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Agaram Productions
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$69,265 - Towards two New Zealand artists to create new work and present at Aichi Triennale 2022, a significant platform for global contemporary art discourse.
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APPLICANT: Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$33,163 - Toward the research and development phase for an inaugural Moana Writers Festival.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Alana Lopesi and Grace Taylor
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$68,355 - Towards research for a new body of work about lineage.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Aloalii Tapu
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$5,000 - Towards publication of a book of poetry by Briar Wood.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Anahera Press
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$74,998 - Towards associated costs for Little Andromeda Theatre to open April to September 2022.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Andromeda Arts Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$42,400 - Towards a major installation of 55 carved pou to be exhibited as part of Sculpture on the Gulf 2022.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Anton Forde
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$17,170 - To create a new body of work and exhibition in the international Queer Arts Festival in 2022.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Areez Katki
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards the delivery of the Hawke's Bay Arts Festival's 'Festival Taster Series'.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Arts Inc. Heretaunga
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$16,924 - Towards a presentation of new and existing work celebrating moko kauae, with associated wānanga speaking to journey and process.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Bonita Bigham
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$64,841 - The Composers Association of New Zealand: towards the annual CANZ Workshop for emerging composers in Nelson.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: CANZ
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards publishing and building audience development to champion the international work of Aotearoa New Zealand artists over nine months.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Contemporary HUM
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$20,700 - To compose two new Māori classical chamber music works influenced by taonga pūoro musical style.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: David Mason
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$57,943 - Towards Depot Artspace's strategic review, increasing impact and resilience on the sector.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Depot Artspace
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$24,840 - Towards creating a series of objects using local materials and exploring the connections between people, place and te taiao.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Elise Bishop
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$14,410 - Towards the development of an easily-tourable, solo comedy theatre show, exploring themes of body positivity and celebration.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Emma Newborn
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$19,029 - Towards final stage development of dance work, 'Double Goer' ahead of premiere season in 2022.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Foster Group Dance
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$64,233 - Towards archival podcasts, commissioned video poems, and a poetry writing workshop.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Going West
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$56,078 - To record and release an album of indigenous world jazz.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Goldsmith Baynes
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$18,427 - Towards presenting rest as a form of resistance.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Ha
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$74,650 - To hold a series of wānanga to develop a new theatre production.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Hawaiki TU - Haka Theatre
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$74,808 - To produce and present new work by Sriwhana Spong at the 17th Istanbul Biennial in 2022.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Istanbul Biennial
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards an arts festival on the south coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Jacob Dombroski
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$15,200 - Towards the development of a new digital artwork, 'Weather Station' at Haupapa Glacier for the World Weather Network Project.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Janine Randerson
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$49,120 - To develop a site-specific dance work 'Secrets in Our Streets' with the communities of Kaikohe and Kerikeri.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Java Dance Company Ltd
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$10,533 - To create and present 'Kahu Pitongatonga - Being', a multi-disciplinary group show at No.1 Gallery, Parnell.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Joanne Barrett
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$35,000 - Towards the illustration of two new picture books.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Joshua Morgan
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,000 - To commission five solo percussion works by innovative New Zealand composers.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Justin DeHart
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$33,837 - Towards the creation and exhibition of art to celebrate ten years of art-making, in response to violence by Women's Art Initiative Collective (WAI).
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Karen Seccombe
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$12,070 - To develop a picture book based on the collaborative exhibition 'I Am Island and Sea' at the New Zealand Maritime Museum.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Kate Parker
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$41,773 - To create a dance film series.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Kit Reilly
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$73,650 - To hold a series of wānanga to establish and launch a new Ngā toi Māori collective in Tāmaki Makaurau.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Kura Te Ua
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - Towards publishing two new novels to be released in the first quarter of 2022.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Lawrence & Gibson publishing
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,999 - Towards creating large-scale cast glass vessels for local and international exhibitions using new imagery and processes.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Layla Walter
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$20,382 - To develop a contemporary ballet work exploring mental health.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Lesley Bandy
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards 14 artists creating work for a 6-month exhibition at Waikato Museum.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Margaret Aull
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$18,000 - Towards a novel for adults about Kana, a young Rarotongan woman who migrates to Aotearoa in the 1950s.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Maria Samuela
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$19,875 - To write and develop a new one-man musical theatre piece based on the songs, stories and music of Mark Vanilau.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Mark Vanilau
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$14,107 - To present three multi-disciplinary works from Dunedin at the 2022 New Zealand Fringe Festival.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Martyn Roberts
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$55,655 - Towards a battle event for dancers and beatmakers.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Mele Taeiloa
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$23,640 - Towards the development of young New Zealand musicians and concert performances at the 2022 Wakatipu Arts Festival.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Michael Hill International Violin Competition Charitable Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$67,499 - Towards an exhibition and workshops with senior artists and rangatahi in the Southland community.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Miharo Murihiku Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$30,750 - To create new work and a solo exhibition in Canada's longest running university art gallery from June - August 2022.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Miranda Bellamy
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$30,000 - Towards a summer performance, project and film.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Mixit
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$7,100 - To complete a full-length collection of personal essays on the experience of growing up as a Muslim in New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Mohamed Hassan
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$65,788 - Towards an 11-month programme of community dance classes, dance workshops, performances and events.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Movement Art Practice
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,260 - Towards the next development stage of a new dance work, 'Tōrua'.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Movement Of The Human
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$46,000 - Towards the associated costs of National Flash Fiction Day, Flash Frontier, and the creation of a dual-language anthology.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: National Flash Fiction Day
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards artsist fees for Newtown Festival 2022.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Newtown Festival Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$73,494 - Towards an apprenticeship program with Rongomai Grbic-Hoskins to wānanga and develop mātauranga and succession planning for aute.
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Nikau Hindin
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$55,034 - Towards a choreographic intensive workshop to develop emerging choreographers and dancers.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Northern Dance Network Inc. (NDN)
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$58,898 - Towards 'Pūkeko Tuawhā', a te reo māori play rewritten in Ngāpuhi reo by Hinemoana Baker.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Northland Youth Theatre Trust, Arana Horncy and Hannah White
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$62,200 - To prepare a major new body of work for a solo exhibition at Objectspace in 2023.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Octavia Cook
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$38,120 - To explore and develop techniques in speed painting through various painting performances to a live audience.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Orowaru Arts
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$20,500 - Towards building and maintaining key resources and opportunities for the Performing Arts and Young People sector.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: PAYPA/ASSITEJ Aotearoa New Zealand, Beth Taylor and Jenny Wake
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$28,900 - To develop a collaborative Moana artwork comprising a network of Aeolian aerials for the World Weather Network project.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Philip Dadson
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$30,287 - Towards play_station's exhibition and performance programme for 2022.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: play_station artist run space
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,800 - Towards cycles of development platforms for playwrights and writers in 2022.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Prospect Park Productions
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,590 - Towards the Ōtautahi Māori Choir's workshop series to learn, sing, perform and enjoy choir music.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Pumamao Brennan
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$21,028 - To commission and record a set of piano etudes by 12 New Zealand composers.
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Rae de LIsle
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$28,500 - Towards a six-month residency in Wellington for a New Zealand writer.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Randell Cottage Writers Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$28,475 - Towards research, creation and production of a visual podcast series focusing on the arts.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Ria Hall
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$75,000 - Towards a youth development programme and New Zealand's largest contemporary music performance event for students.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Rockquest Promotions Ltd
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$26,300 - Towards the creation of a cultural history of Flying Nun Records from 1981 to 2021.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Roger Shepherd
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$27,700 - To make three new chest pieces out of muka fibre using lacemaking methods.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Rowan Panther
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - To create a solo show and facilitate creative practice for independent dancers in Te-Whanganui-A-Tara.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Sacha Copland
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$33,100 - Towards the delivery of the 'samesame but different', a festival that highlights the mahi of LGBTQI+ writers.
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: samesame but different LGBTQI Writers Festival
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$28,900 - Towards a free acting and performing workshop for Te Tairāwhiti rangatahi.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Te Huamanuka Luiten-Apirana and Te Ao o Hinepehinga Rauna
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$19,342 - Towards exhibiting furniture at Greenhouse within the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2022.
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Ted Synnott
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$75,000 - Towards an annual event that works to develop and support the comedy industry.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: The New Zealand Comedy Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$49,735 - Towards a choreographic commission and premiere of a new dance work at Tiny Fest 2022 in Christchurch.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Tiny Fest
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$6,030 - Towards a community art and music festival that showcases young talent throughout Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Tora Bombora
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$40,000 - Towards creating new tapa works for an exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery.
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Tui Gillies and Sulieti Burrows
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$75,000 - Towards the research, writing and development of three new plays for theatre, promoting diverse voices.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Victor Rodger
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$62,500 - Towards recognising important Waimārama history and interpreting sites of cultural significance with carved totara Pou.
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Waimarama Marae and Jeremy MacLeod
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$43,632 - To stage and present Waiwhakaata-Reflections in the water at Auckland Arts Festival 2022.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Waiwhakaata Performance Ltd
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - Ki te Toi Pari Kārangaranga he kaupapa Toi Māori, he kaupapa Reo Māori.
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Whatu Creative
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$18,780 - Towards a project to develop a new strategic and organisational plan to ensure the organisation is fit for purpose.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Whau The People
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,958 - owards presenting high-quality creative works that explore the intersection of art, technology, and society.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Yinan Liu, Tane Moleta, Marc Aurel Schnabel and Uwe Rieger
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$74,732 - Towards supporting and delivering the Tours and Ambassadors Programme in 2022.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Young & Hungry Arts Trust (Y&H)
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
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