Arts Grants Round 7 Closing date: 23 Apr 2021
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.
Find out more in our Arts Grant funding opportunity and guidelines
Round 7 summary
Read the summary of round 7 results
This includes an overview of the results, 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
58 grants totalling $2,143,407 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 received 166 eligible applications, with a total of $5,729,800 requested.
This was broken down as follows:
- General Arts: 39 projects totalling $1,407,588 were supported. $4,492,305 was requested by 135 applicants.
- Ngā toi Māori: 12 projects totalling $453,246 were supported. $768,587 was requested by 21 applicants.
- Pacific Arts: 7 projects totalling $282,572 were supported. $468,906 was requested by 10 applicants.
Also:
- 34 of the funded projects supported the development of arts practice and the creation of new work.
- 12 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts.
- 6 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to participate in the arts.
- 4 supported New Zealand arts to gain international success.
- 2 supported building the resilience of the New Zealand arts sector.
Artforms were supported as follows:
- 2 Craft/object
- 1 Customary Māori Arts
- 3 Dance
- 3 Interarts
- 9 Literature
- 7 Multidisciplinary Arts
- 10 Music
- 2 Pacific heritage arts
- 10 Theatre
- 11 Visual Arts
Successful applications will lead to 112 activities in the following regions:
- 35 Auckland
- 20 Wellington
- 9 National
- 6 Canterbury
- 7 Online
- 3 Gisborne
- 5 Waikato
- 3 Taranaki
- 5 Bay of Plenty
- 1 Manawatu-Whanganui
- 2 Northland
- 7 Otago
- 5 Overseas
- 4 Hawkes Bay
Funding recipients
Anna & John Caselberg Charitable Trust
Towards support for a 'Creative Connections Residency' in 2022.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $9,452
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Annual Ink
Towards the commissioning and editing of a collection of writing by New Zealand contributors, for 9-13 year olds.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $64,650
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Areez Katki
To research, develop and create a new body of work for Colomboscope 2021.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $12,200
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
ART Paper
Towards publishing costs of the next four issues of ART Paper; a new, high-quality and innovative New Zealand art publishing platform.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $49,947
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Arts Festival Taranaki Charitable Trust
Towards the delivery of a festival that celebrates the art of contemporary cabaret.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $75,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland Festival of Photography Trust
To deliver a second national programme for The Auckland Festival of Photography 2021 online via You Tube.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $39,700
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Aunty Productions
Towards the creative development of a new New Zealand work.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $75,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Celeste Oram
Towards a new multimedia composition/live radio play for Ensemble Adapter, presented at European festivals.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $16,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Chabs and Milky Television Productions, Harry Dansey
Towards a series of livestreamed music shows at venues around Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $15,861
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Charles Koroneho
Towards developing a new visual arts installation and curatorial programme of performances.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $74,976
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Christopher Beernink
To record and release an extreme metal jazz orchestra album.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $34,544
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Cian Parker
Towards the rehearsal period and premiere of a new physical/dance theatre piece, ‘All I See’.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $40,600
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Clerestory Press
Towards associated costs to deliver and promote the 'Re-Draft National Writing Competition for Teenagers' in 2021.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $19,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Clinton Hewett
Towards an illustrated book and online paintings that tell the story of Cook Islands heritage.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $15,140
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki
To support a seven-month programme of exhibitions delivered by CoCA.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $75,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Discotheque
Towards development and performances of a new high quality contemporary dance/theatre work in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $50,250
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Dylan Lardelli
To commission a new work for flute, oboe, viola and double bass for Musikfabrik.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $21,600
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Elliot Vaughan, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
Towards the creation of two stand-alone solo music performances.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $33,644
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Ercan Cairns
Towards new paintings, prints and sculpture and accompanying catalogue for a solo exhibition.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $40,026
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
Gareth Farr
Towards the composition and online premiere performance of a new work for baritone voice, string quartet and piano.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $61,500
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Georgina Watson
To develop a new body of work to be presented in Te Uru’s Summer 2021/22 season.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $9,200
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Honolulu Biennial Foundation
Towards support for artists of Aotearoa for artistic research and production for the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
Ice Floe Productions Tapui Limited
Towards 'HOLE', a ground-breaking, green-powered full season play, programmed at Circa Theatre in 2021.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $29,665
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Ioane Ioane
Towards short film promotion of traditional va'aalo paddled from Auckland to Waiheke for the New Zealand International Film Festival.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $5,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
Jonathon Heyes
To record and film a new album inside an innovative Beehive Studio.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $36,101
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Justine Simei-Barton
Towards a fusion of theatre, Māori martial arts and Pasifika performing arts, integrated with a Pasifika banquet.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $30,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Katy Wallace, Sarah Cleave
Towards a conceptual sound art project executed by Tairāwhiti artists and musicians.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $19,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Kezia Whakamoe
Towards a multi-disciplinary exhibition invoking sovereignty through Mana Wāhine creative practice.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $30,166
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Kristyl Neho
Towards writing and devising a new theatre piece.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $12,270
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Little Wild Music
To create a collection of marine and animal conservation songs and illustrated songbooks for children.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $42,640
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Magma Design and Multimedia Limited
Towards the illustration of a picture book about Leonardo Da Vinci, for adults and teens.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $21,080
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Margaret Aull
Towards a three-day wānanga for wāhine who are whakairo practitioners.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $20,307
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Mere Whaanga
Towards the development of three books and digital illustration skills.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $48,000
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Mudra Dance Company
To present the new work NAVARASA: Nine Emotions in Wellington.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $31,375
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
New Zealand Improvisation Trust
Towards a week-long festival celebrating improvised theatre and affiliated work in New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $44,154
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Okareka Dance Company
Towards performing at the Hawke's Bay Arts Festival in October 2021.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $32,857
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
OneTree House
Towards publishing five books.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $31,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Opus Orchestra , Bronya Dean
Towards a collaboration with Scholars Baroque to present three concerts in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty region.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $52,212
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Piksies Melody Ltd
Towards a staged reading and sing-through of a te reo Māori musical, 'Whakapaupākihi', at Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $75,000
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Polynesian Panther Party 50th Anniversary Committee
Towards the celebration of Polynesian Panther Party's contribution to the history and cultural fabric of Aotearoa through art.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $74,576
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
projectMUSE
Towards the development and touring of a new, multidisciplinary, live performance work inspired by cabaret artforms.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $22,306
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Rachel McAlpine
Towards writing a prose-and-poetry memoir featuring the shocks, challenges and pleasures of ageing in the 21st century.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $6,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Rangihiroa Panoho
Towards the research, wānanga and development of an artwork series that explores the Northern New Zealand Land Wars.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $48,255
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Rapa XR Limited
To create and present the work of taonga puoro artist Te Kahureremoa through the use of virtual reality technology.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $30,400
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Sally Stockwell
Towards rehearsal and performance seasons of a new solo theatre show.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $38,025
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Sarah Wilkins
Towards the research, writing and illustration of a non-fiction children's book about Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the world.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $20,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Sharu Loves Hats
Towards an eight-week workshop to inject Thai language, Thai cultural dance and comedy elements to script.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $37,840
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Simon Gennard
To produce and distribute an artist book by Ammon Ngakuru.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $13,649
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Steph Matuku
Towards the third title in the popular 'Whetū Toa' junior novel series.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $12,000
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Sue Pearson
Towards an installation about the tiputa (tapa) of Pitcairn Island.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $22,830
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
Taarati Taiaroa
To document the practice and voice of senior Māori sculptor, Matt Pine, for a sigificant exhibition and publication.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $71,747
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Tia Huia Ranginui
Towards the production of work for a solo exhibtion.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $18,228
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
Victoria Kelly
To compose a new work for soprano, tenor, choir and orchestra.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $75,000
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Whangarei Fringe
Towards the delivery of a two-week multidisciplinary arts festival in Whangārei in October 2021.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $50,690
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Young and Hungry Arts Trust
Towards supporting the development phase of Y&H’s new activity, Playful.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $34,657
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Yuki Kihara
To research and develop a prototype sculpture for a textile project.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $75,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
Yu-Ting Rose Wei
Towards developing a new ceramics series.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $7,495
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
Zeb Nicklin
Towards he āta rangahau kōrero mō te Manu Kōrero.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $40,586
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund