08 Nov 2024
Permissions is a group show currently on at Auckland’s Artspace Aotearoa.
With the support of Creative New Zealand’s Early Career Fund, recent graduates August Ward, Dayle Palfreyman and Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye, conceived new work for the exhibition which runs until 21 December.
Creative New Zealand’s Early Career Fund, part of the new funding programme launched this year, has supported each of the artists to make work towards the exhibition. Each artist was awarded funding through the very first and second rounds of the Early Career Fund in May and August 2024.
It’s a significant and positive launch to their careers to show at Artspace Aotearoa.
Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye says the support has been transformative.
“Being able to fully commit to my practice at this pace, especially early in my career, was unexpected and profoundly meaningful, influencing both what I contributed to Artspace Aotearoa’s New Commissions Chartwell Trust exhibition and my future work. This support reaches beyond just one project; it shapes my approach to future endeavours and allows me to be expansive in my rituals of practice and research,” says Yana.
August Ward, who through the fund was also supported for her upcoming show at Ivan Anthony, has been able to concentrate and produce a vast amount of work in a way she’s not done before.
“At this stage in my career, receiving this support was the only way I could have pulled off producing work for two shows at this scale. During this time, I have made huge progress in my painting, and I have not had to worry about being able to afford to support my practice. This funding has helped my career start to take off in the first year out of art school, when I would otherwise have had no resources or support,” says August.
Dayle Palfreyman is thinking about the next steps in their career and researching residencies and study opportunities overseas.
“This support has meant a great deal to me at this stage of my career. After many years of putting every spare bit of money towards my practice and not having enough left over, it was so important in making me feel I can feasibly continue my practice, it gave me the opportunity to push things further, knowing I had the means to do so,” says Dayle.
Today the results for the third round of the Early Career Fund were published, with 52 artists and practitioners supported across the Nga toi Maori, Pacific arts and General arts funding rounds.
View the results
Applicants can apply to the Early Career Fund for up to $10,000, the next round opens in January 2025.
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