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Snapshot of Artist Opportunities

So COVID-19 has certainly impacted the creative industries yet there are a number of artist opportunities and events arising. Here’s a list of projects on our radar which may be of interest.

Artist resources created by artsACT 

https://www.arts.act.gov.au/funding/useful-links-for-artists

NSW
Regional Arts NSW Grants

http://regionalartsnsw.com.au/grants/

Burwood Council – EOI Murals

Burwood Council invites Sydney artists or collectives to submit an application for the Hornsey Lane Murals project. This opportunity is for three selected artists or collectives to create a painted mural along Hornsey Lane. https://www.burwood.nsw.gov.au/public_art.html

Big Picture Festival Newcastle – Newcastle, New South Wales during October 2-4 2020 http://thebigpicturefest.com/

ACT
Creative Endeavour Grants

GRANTS OF UP TO $10,000 AVAILABLE FOR STREET ARTISTS//GRAFFITI ARTISTS via Transport Canberra and City Services to undertake professional research and development and/or sustain their creative practice while facing pressures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Applications are due by 9AM ~ 18th June 2020 –> lisa.petheram@act.gov.au

VIC

The Nullawil Silo Art Precinct Grand Opening Postponed

Postponed due to COVID – Follow online for updates.
https://www.facebook.com/siloarttrail/

QLD

Brisbane Street Art Festival
BSAF 2020 will include 41 new mural artworks across Brisbane and Ipswich, with dates for many of the artworks to be moved later into the year. As a first for 2020, BSAF is expanding to Ipswich to produce a series of large scale public artworks with renowned local and international street artists. We’re working hard to keep providing opportunities to artists and creatives throughout this crisis, while adhering to all health directions from the Federal Government and QLD Health. Keep an eye on our website for updates, and subscribe to our social media to watch artists at work as the altered program evolves!

https://www.bsafest.com.au/

WA
Perth Public Art

  • Art City Walking Trail
  • Public Art Strategy

https://www.perth.wa.gov.au/live-and-work/community-services-and-facilities/public-art-collection

Fremantle – Opportunities for Artists
https://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/publicart#Art%20progran

TAS

Through the generous support of the Australian Federal Government, Salamanca Arts Centre has been awarded a Commonwealth Regional Grant of $200,000 towards the redevelopment of the Salamanca Arts Centre Courtyard.

Salamanca Arts Centre has engaged PlayStreet to develop plans for the Courtyard landscaping project, and as part of the overall redevelopment. This will also include a commissioned artwork as well as new furniture, both to be designed by a Tasmanian-based artist and designer/maker.

The Courtyard redevelopment will also include additional sound and lighting equipment and a redesigned performance stage. We expect that the Courtyard redevelopment project will be completed by November 2020 and ready to be opened to the public at that time.

Deadline: Wed 1 July 2020
https://www.salarts.org.au/news/eoi-sac-courtyard-redevelopment/

NT
Darwin Street Art Festival 2020
Due to current global circumstances, this year’s festival will showcase some of Darwin’s finest artists. Starting in May, a new artist will complete a mural every fortnight up until September. https://www.darwinstreetartfestival.com.au/

SA
Wonderwalls Port Adelaide

Held from 6-8 March 2020 and hosted International street artists alongside South Australia’s emerging and professional artists.

http://thebigpicturefest.com/wonderwalls/
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StreetArtWalking: Art Walk

Mural by Trevor Dickinson

Join internationally regarded place-maker, mover and shaker Simone Sheridan at the beautiful Ocean Baths at Merewether where you’ll be walked and talked all the way to the secret wooden steps up to the Mansion. Just in time for a performance of Dorr-e Darri!

And if you’ve bought a pre-sale ticket- stay to be part of the live studio audience for “Are you over Newcastle Tonight?”

Date: Sunday 6 October 2019
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Henderson Parade (Outside Merewether Surfhouse) at Merewether Ocean Baths
Ending Location: Secret Location – The Mansion

Free registration here.

Mural by Trevor Dickinson
Mural by Trevor Dickinson
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Port Stephen’s Team Visits Newcastle

Newcastle East

On Friday 1 December I was lucky enough to take the Strategic Planning Team from Port Stephen’s Council out on a city adventure from Newcastle East to (nearly) Cooks Hill. It was positively rejuvenating to meet such an outgoing and vivacious team who had so many questions around the process of engaging artists and commissioning creative projects.

Newcastle East

Starting in Newcastle East at The Grain Store, which was The View Factory when This Is Not Art Festival used it as a canvas for walkARTbout, to show the energetic team some of the best creative projects in The City of Newcastle. Our walk revealed DIY gardens that residents share with those who walk by on the street, showing how residents taking pride in the public spaces has such a profound impact of creating a unique identity for places, including ground murals and bunting down secluded laneways.

Beach Street Newcastle East

The Newcastle Beach Tunnel is an example of a public artwork commissioned by The City of Newcastle as part of their Graffiti Management Program. The artwork by Trevor Dickinson (who first created Newcastle street art as part of walkARTbout in paste-up form) was commissioned in 2011 to rejuvenate wall which had the historic Time Tunnel mural by Birgitte Hansen which was painted in 1990. Twenty-one years had resulted in a great deal of wear and tear so a new commission was made. Respectfully, Trevor pays homage to the former artist on the wall by leaving a section of Hansen’s work to peek through his new design. Trevor’s work has become highly well-known since these two projects were completed and Newcastle is a key subject for his designs – one attendee on the tour even had a deck of his Newcastle Productions playing cards!

Estabar provided the perfect rest stop as we picked up our coffee for the journey from the start of Hunter Street through to a range of hidden locations to reveal artworks by Adnate, BMD, Mike Watt, Jumbo & Bafcat.

 

Hunter Street Mall by Umpel and Ben Foster

Artwork by Umpel (left) and Chehehe (right)

Nosferatu stencil by Enak

Port Stephen’s Council Team from Strategic Planning in front of BMD Is your friend mural

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Cooks Hill Walking Tour

Come along on Saturday 9 September to explore Cooks Hill and the street art hidden down laneways and back streets near Darby Street.

Street Art Walking leads you through the streets of Cooks Hill sharing stories about the artworks, how they came to be, about the artists behind the murals and techniques used to create them.

We will wander around Cooks Hill back alleys seeking out street art and other unique features within this special suburb of Newcastle.

The guided walking tour will go for 90 minutes. Reserve your place here.

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Expressions of Interest – Live Art for Festival in Inner West Sydney


Street Art Walking has been invited to quote provide artists as entertainment for an event. The festival is held on 8 October from 11:00 until 18:00 with theme of “Art of Communication”. It’s free for community to attend and ran by council.

SAW is keen to hear from artists who can do live art in front of people. They particularly want to offer an interactive experience so artists that can work with people and facilitate group work would also be great.

Ideas:

  • Portrait drawing or painting
  • Live art workshops
  • Interactive Sculpture

There are three live art elements:

  • artists live drawing/painting
  • idea for a interactive sculpture
  • sensory walk in a marquee
  1. Are you interested to share your idea or learn more?
  2. Have you created live art for events before?
  3. Can you facilitate some interactive art?

Key event info:
Date: Sunday 8 October
Time: 11am until 6pm (you will need to arrive earlier to set up before open at 11)

If you can paint all day great! But if you only want to paint for 4 hours, that’s okay too. Outline what time you can be available when you send us your EOI.

Email us (as soon as you can!) with an outline of your idea, examples of work, the duration of your live art performance and what your fee will be. Please include all costs or outline anything else you will require to complete the job.

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Theatre Lane in Swansea, Wales (UK)

Today Theatre Lane in Swansea, Wales (UK) launched as part of the Troublemaker’s Festival featuring thirty four posters for shows at The Palace Theatre. Be quick to see what is on!

The Troublemakers’ Festival is about changing the world. More specifically, it’s about changing the world – starting with Swansea High Street.

Festival Dates: Thu 13 Jul 2017 to Sun 16 Jul 2017 
Full Festival Program here

Special thank you to Dan Thompson and the Volcano Theatre Team for all their support to get those posters printed and on the wall

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Palace Theatre Paste Up in Swansea, Wales

Today a lucky wall near High Street in Swansea, Wales will be pasted up with Palace Posters as part of the Gŵyl Troublemakers’ Festival which is happening from July 13 – July 16.

Street Art Walking received over 35 posters to be part of the Paste Up project and today the amazing people at Volcano Theatre will begin pasting them to feature over the next few days – be sure to walk down High Street and find them!

If you are lucky enough to live near Swansea  I hope you can share some photos of what you see at the Troublemakers festival, the full festival program, looks brilliant and it is an honour to be aligned with such interesting, inspiring artworks.

Based in Australia, SAW has collected posters from artists in UK and Australia for this temporary “pop-up” exhibition and shared some how-to tips for the festival team who will be getting pasted. Here are some mock up photos of what the artwork might look like.

Palace Theatre Paste Up Posters

Palace Theatre Paste Up Posters

Palace Theatre Paste Up Posters

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OPEN CALL OUT EXTENDED – Palace Theatre Paste Up Project

We believe this theatre deserves to operate again and this project is your chance to wonder on what it might have been like when it was first launched in 1888, or when operated as a theatre until the 1970’s or what will it look like when it’s renewed from disrepair?

The Pavilion Theatre of Varieties opened in 1888. It was designed by the architectural firm Bucknall & Jennings on a triangular site. The stage end being at the apex, which originally had a circular tower feature. There were two square towers at the other two corners. The exterior is built in brick, with plenty of stone features.

The auditorium is up stairs at first floor level, leaving the ground floor to house shop units and offices. Inside the auditorium there are two balconies, which have open iron balaustrades, the upper balcony still retains its original bench seating. The main orchestra floor is now leveled for use as a dancefloor.

The building was re-named Empire Theatre in 1892, then became the Palace Theatre of Varieties in 1901. At this time stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Lilly Langtry, Marie Lloyd and Dan Leno appeared on stage. By 1908, films were being screened as part of the variety bill and by 1912 it was known as the Swansea Popular Picture Hall and Peoples Palace. By 1923 it had reverted back to live theatre again and took the name Palace Theatre of Varieties for a second time.

The history of 156 High Street is rich with interesting and significant cultural stories. Did you know it was the first place in Wales to show a silent film? The Palace hosted the first ever cinema show in Swansea in 1896.

I found this older image on this wikipedia and Cinema Treasures website.

The above photo was taken three years ago and found here. Today, it is in a very serious state of neglect.

This your chance to draw on the rich cultural history of The Palace and the amazing potential for its future to create your very own poster.

Email your poster to streetartwalking[at]gmail[dot]com before July 2017 to be part of this temporary artwork. Posters may be pasted up and over, depending on the number of submissions received.

Let your imagination run wild to promote your own theatre production. Inspire people to ponder on what might have happened back in the day or what shows might come to the theatre once it reopens.

Timeline

  • Call Out Opens 05 April 2017
  • Posters Due 6 July 2017
  • Festival 13-16 July 2017

Find out more about the Palace by visiting these resources:

Swansea’s Palace Theatre ‘on verge of collapse,’ trust says – BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-24376058

Palace (Swansea) – The Theatres Trust http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/411-palace-swansea

Palace Theatre 156 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1NE
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/22953

Wiki (Palace Theatre, Swansea)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Theatre,_Swansea

Derelict former Palace Theatre, Swansea

The Palace Theatre Paste Up Project is a cornerstone project of From the Station to the Sea, a collaboration between Volcano Theatre and Coastal Housing Group funded through the Arts Council of Wales’s Ideas : People : Places initiative (more here).

Find out more as we go
Follow our Facebook page and Instagram to learn more about The Palace and this project over the next three months before 6 July.

Design by Craig Frankham

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Troublemakers’ Festival

This year Street Art Walking (and interested artists/designers) have the very exciting opportunity of recreating the Theatre Lane Project in Swansea, Wales, UK for the Troublemakers’ Festival held from Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 July.

A number of people within our Newcastle, Australia audience might remember the paste-up project held in Theatre Lane Newcastle which involved a global call out for posters to be made. The posters needed to feature The Victoria Theatre, which has been sitting closed for a number of years. The project resulted in many posters being printed in a variety of sizes and I would paste them up over a number of weeks which helped to create activity in what was a rather sad looking lane – see the photos below.

Whilst this project was still (barely) pasted up in March 2013, Dan Thompson of Revolutionary Arts and the Empty Shops Network was visiting Newcastle, Australia for the Renew Australia Creating Spaces Conference. To my absolute honour, this temporary street art project has resonated in Dan’s mind since. Fast forward to now and we will be re-creating the concept for a very special theatre in Swansea, Wales, UK.

To call Dan’s keynote speech as inspiring would be an understatement. I recall leaving his presentation being gifted a calico bag because I tweeted the #wewillgather whilst he discussed the riot clean up project initiated via a Twitter hashtag to bring people together to clean up the London streets in 2012 . Dan said it was about “place shaking, not place making” and this really resonated with me.

Making posters for the empty theatre drew attention, in a subtle way, to the cultural importance of the building and gave people a chance to reinterpret the history and future. It was so much fun to put art up in a place that was blank before, whilst also drawing attention to the building’s significance.

This week are excited to be launching the Swansea, Wales, UK version of this project and we will be calling for artists to imagine up their own theatre show for the currently empty Palace Theatre on High Street – see it on Google Maps here.

Photo taken by Gareth Lovering Photography

Over the coming months we will be sharing history, images and anything we can find to help inspire you to create your very own theatre poster. Our friends at Volcano Theatre in the UK will be pasting them up for the Troublemakers Festival from 13-16 July.

Look out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more details to come this week!

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ARTIST CALL OUT – BURWOOD FESTIVAL INSTALLATION

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Expressions of Interest are sought for an artist to paint the wall or create a temporary artwork (chalk or paste-up) to fit with the Burwood Festival theme of 1950’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Think Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, cadillacs, milk bars, juke box, big skirts, swing dancing, etc…

Burwood Council have installed a new stage in Burwood Park called the Pavilion (photos below) and an opportunity exists for an artist to create an installations on the  giant wall in the middle of the stage for Burwood Festival this year.

The measurements of the wall are 9m x 4m approx. The artwork doesn’t need huge amounts of detail because they will not be visible from far away, with people on the stages, so just large shapes and big designs.
Ideas – for consideration

Side One – a giant jukebox and sofa.

Side Two – a giant neon sign with a padded stool or guitar

Email examples of your previous work and a written idea to Asha.Pomery[at]burwood.nsw.gov.au to be considered. Artists will be notified by COB Wednesday 12 October.

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Budget
$500 (including materials)

Timeline

  1. Expressions of interest due COB Monday 10 October
  2. Notification to successful applicant by Wednesday 12 October
  3. Installation on Saturday 15 October – the day before the event.