Results posted: 7 May 2025
39
Projects funded
$290,119
Total funding awarded
285
Eligible applications received
$2,614,880
Total funding requested
39 grants totalling $290,119 have been offered to support artists, practitioners and groups at an early stage of their career. We received 285 eligible applications, with a total of $2,614,880 requested.
Funded projects
$5,000 - towards adapting a doctoral thesis about 1970's glam rock into a book
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Alison Blair
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$10,000 - towards the creation of a new interactive moving image work
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Aliyah Winter
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$8,000 - towards an artistic residency, mentoring and craft materials
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Angu Chen
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$8,000 - towards ten early career artists independently touring their award-winning theatre show Running into the Sun around NZ
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Ben Ashby
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$7,000 - towards attending the SpaesLab 2025 Artist Residency in Berlin
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Ben Leonard
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$10,000 - towards a solo exhibition at Artor Contemporary
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Benjamin Ord
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$9,000 - towards mentoring in willow basketry
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Diana Duncan, Tanya Doty, Gemma Stratton
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$7,500 - to support the creation of an album of harp and saxophone contemporary chamber music composed by women
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Duo Eolienne
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$8,000 - towards a the development of a show
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Ella Williams
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$9,000 - towards multiple exhibitions in 2025
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Erika Holm
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$4,000 - towards completion of a Zine (Comic)
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Gordon Chaffey
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$8,000 - to attend and perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Hamdi A Mohamud
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$620 - towards a concert featuring New Zealand music
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Herbert Zielinski
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand arts gain international success
$7,500 - towards the development and release of a debut album
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Hester Ullyart
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$10,000 - towards further development of sustainable art
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Inge Flinte
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$6,000 - towards producing a show with high-quality queer and alternative performance in the Manawatū
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Joel Hepburn Robertson
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$9,000 - towards being part of the Domaine de Boisbuchet Residency program in 2025
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Juliana Durán
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand arts gain international success
$6,000 - towards the completion of a fiction novel for young readers
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Kiri Lightfoot
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$8,000 - towards a dance show that explores Ubuntu and Tūrangawaewae in Aotearoa
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Kisha September
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$5,000 - towards recording a sophomore EP
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Laura MacLean
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$10,000 - towards the development of a debut full-length poetry collection and residency at Klovharun, Finland
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Loretta Riach
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$7,399 - towards the creation and exhibition of a significant body of work
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Maisie Chilton
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$10,000 - towards the making of a moving image work about artist Daegan Wells
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Martin Sagadin
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$5,000 - towards the completion of a young adult novel
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Matthew Pearce
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$7,500 - towards creating, presenting, and distributing an extended play (EP) of original songs
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Na'amah Cheiban
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$6,600 - towards two projects - 1. Srebrenica Heroines, Sarajevo, Bosnia and 2. Tubular Bell, Auckland, NZ
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Nour Hassan
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$5,000 - towards the completion of a graphic novel and further planning of a graphic novel series
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Pita Mei
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$10,000 - towards a series of paintings drawing from theories of Raaga and the architectural systems of Vastu Shastra
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Rhea Maheshwari
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$5,000 - to write, draw and publish a comic book
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Robin McRae
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$6,000 - to write a first full-length theatre script
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Sanjana Khusal
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$8,000 - towards the development and presentation of a development season of May Mga Uod Ang Utok Mo (There are Worms in Your Brain) at Basement Theatre
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Sean Millward
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$9,000 - to produce work for an upcoming exhibition with West Space and Slant Art Project Space
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Taarn Scott
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$9,000 - towards artist wages and studio rent
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Tarika Sabherwal
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$8,000 - towards development and presentation of an original piece of theatre for children and families
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Tomasin Fisher-Johnson
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$5,000 - to complete a children’s book
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Trish Harris
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$7,500 - to create, present and distribute music work whilst gaining production knowledge from a mentor
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Tuseka Njoko
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$7,500 - towards a new solo work for double bass and tape/electronics that connects Malay traditional music with taonga pūoro
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Umar Zakaria
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$10,000 - towards creating new work for an exhibition
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Wendelien Bakker
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand arts gain international success
$8,000 - towards a porcelain course and a ceramics research trip around Japan
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Zoe Isaacs
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
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