Quick Response Grants Closed: 9 Nov 2018
Helping New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take five weeks and typically one in four or five applications get funded.
80 grants totalling $526,459.44 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists, practitioners and arts organisations in this funding round. 339 applications were received, with a total of $2,166,611 requested.
General arts fund: 57 projects totalling $367,966 were supported. $1,682,823 was requested by 269 applicants.
Māori arts funds: 16 projects totalling $108,094, were supported. $327,535 was requested by 48 applicants. This includes 4 Toi Tipu Toi Rea Emerging Māori Artist recipients.
Pacific arts funds: 7 projects totalling $50,400 were supported. $156,301 was requested by 22 applicants. This includes 2 Moana Community Grant recipients.
Funding recipients
Alipate Traill
To deliver a Meke Vaka Viti programme focussing on Fijian dance, music and customary practice.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $5,900
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Toward researching, curating and co-editing the first ever Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word Anthology (UQP, 2019).
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $6,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Aro
To tour and provide workshops celebrating Aro's debut album called 'Manu' around Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,449
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
A Slightly Isolated Dog Ltd.
To create a new version of 'Don Juan' in Beijing.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,499
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Auckland Art Fair
To commission new art works from three NZ emerging artists for Auckland Art Fair 2019 Projects Programme.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Auckland Festival of Photography Trust
Towards commissioning new work for Auckland Festival of Photography in 2019.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Audio Described Aotearoa
To provide audio described performances for blind and low vision patrons at the Pop Up Globe.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ayesha Green
To develop a body of work for the St Paul St Gallery Two Oceans at Once exhibition.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $3,974
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Betsy & Mana Productions
Towards research and creative development for a new performance work.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Bianca Hyslop
To develop the choreographic material and music composition for a new full length dance work.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Bill Nelson
To develop a book of poetry with a focus on rural and urban life in New Zealand, now and in the 1980s.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,200
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Bobby Macdonald
Towards Ngā Atua Hou, a revitalisation mural arts project, an awakening of ‘Ngā Atua Hou’ through visual storytelling.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Borderline Arts Ensemble
Towards the choreographic development workshop of the new dance theatre work 'Strasbourg 1518'.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Bullet Heart Club
Towards international workshop development of a new gig-theatre collaboration.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Callum Mallett
Towards attendance and professional development at the impuls. 11th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music, Austria.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $4,610
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Camille King
Towards an immersive art exhibition where image based object works sit amongst spatial intervention.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $3,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Charlotte Yates Productions
To research and create ‘Mansfield’, a collaborative work between Charlotte Yates Productions and Auckland Theatre Company.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $6,720
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Coastella
Towards local choirs collaborating with Australian duo Mama Kin Spender at three festivals around New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $4,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Creative Migration (East), Shayne Carter
To Shayne Carter to participate in Bangkok 1899's International Artist Residency.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $6,400
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Crip the Lit
Towards a resource available in print and electronic forms profiling eight disabled women writers.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $5,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
CubaDupa Street Arts Festival
Towards a selection of new projects commissioned for CubaDupa 2019.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Dance Plant Collective
To tour the dance work 'MEAT' to Wellington and Whangarei.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,493
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
David Riley
Towards writing and illustrating a picture biography about New Zealand's first female Olympic gold medal winner.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $3,045
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Eleanor Bishop
Towards further development of 'Yes Yes Yes' created specifically for 16 - 18 year olds.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
FCC
Towards a series of play readings of diverse works.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Fine Fatale
Towards the second phase development workshop for a new Pacific cabaret work.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
FinnWilliam McLennan-Elliott
Towards attendance at Woodford Folk Festival to build relationships and facilitate professional development.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $900
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Fiona Collins
Towards the draft development and creative workshops of a new stage play.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Gabrielle Vincent
Towards development of a theatrical intervention that works with young people to discuss the issue of child poverty in Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,470
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Georgina Watson
To attend Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon, Portugal.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Gill Gatfield
Towards a monumental site specific sculpture in public space for a group exhibition, LIP(S) 2019.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,440
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Goethe-Institut New Zealand
To create new, collaborative work between New Zealand and German artists exploring ideas about climate change and our oceans.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Good Company Arts
Towards the production costs of a multistage projection audiovisual work for iD 2019.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Hannah Tasker-Poland
Towards choreographic, dramaturgical and score development of the dance-theatre solo work 'projectMUSE'.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,297
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Hemi Macgregor
Towards the development of twelve large-scale paintings explore the relationship between atua and their offspring in the natural environment.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,410
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Imogen Taylor, Michael Lett
Towards new work by Imogen Taylor for solo presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong Discoveries 2019.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,188
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
I Want To Experience
Towards a VR experience taking the audience into the creative process of New Zealand musicians.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Jack Gollop
Towards international professional development.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $4,800
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Jane Yonge
Towards attendance at APAP|NYC 2019 and ISPA New York 2019 Congress.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $2,860
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Joseph Waitoa
He whakaari e aro ana ki te titiro a te rangatahi Māori ki tōna ao mā roto i ngā kitenga o te tira taiohi nei.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Julia Croft
To Julia Croft and Lydia Zanetti towards attendance at PuSh Festival & Assembly alongside a season of 'Power Ballad' at The Cultch, Vancouver.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,499
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Komako Silver
To create a series of moving images based on the kaupapa of Ukaipo.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Last Tapes Theatre Company
Towards development of a verbatim theatre piece about the Pike River mine tragedy.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Lawrence & Gibson publishing
Towards publishing a debut novel from Sharon Lam.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $3,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Lemuria Limited, Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Towards early development research of 'HOLE' and 'HEART' in collaboration with arts practitioners and the science community.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Lift Education
To publish a 32-page, bilingual comic book by Toby Morris about Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Lucien Johnson
To compose a suite of new art music.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $6,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Maia Abraham
Towards a wānanga around uku and it embodies the relationship between people and land held at Blue Oyster Art Project Space.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $6,432
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Malcolm Smith Gallery UXBRIDGE Arts and Culture
Towards a publication supporting the exhibition Garden of Memories which brings together heirloom quilts and contemporary craft and object-making.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $7,195
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Marjan Verstappen
Towards a series of paintings, photographs, and drawings that portray fictional evidence of a plant’s extinction and reemergence.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $6,505
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Melanie Baldwin
Towards the research and development phase for the completion of prototype work.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,458
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Myele Manzanza
To record an album of new works titled 'A Love Requited'.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $6,384
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Northland Pacific Islands Charitable Trust Inc
Towards the production costs for a festival focusing on Pacific Islands arts, music and performance.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,000
FUNDING POOL: Moana Community Fund
Orowaru Arts
Towards a showcase of Taonga Puoro in multiple creative platforms.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Pakohe
Towards the second in a series of 3 wananga exploring artistic expressions of core soil samples extracted from the Whanganui River.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $6,550
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Phil Boniface, Alistair Fraser
To tour the South Island performing improvisations and compositions written for ngā taonga pūoro and double bass.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,105
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Proudly Asian Theatre
Towards 'Fresh Off the Page 2019', monthly playreadings of all new plays by emerging Asian playwrights at Basement Theatre.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Pushing Arts In Nz Trust - PAINT
Towards an international street art festival including live painting of 14 murals, and youth mentoring of 36 youth in Tauranga.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,316
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Qiane Matata-Sipu
Towards a multimedia creative storytelling project to amplify the voices of kickass indigenous female change-makers in Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Raukura Turei
Towards the development and freight of Te poho o Hine Ruhi at the Tokyo International Art Fair 2018.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $6,200
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Reuben Bradley
To support touring to Europe with US jazz musician David Friesen.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $2,458
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Reuben Jelleyman, Louisa Nicklin
To compose two new works for cello for Australian cellist David Moran.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Rodney Bell
Towards producing and organising a South Island Tour for Meremere.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $5,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Roopu Toi, Nalani Wilson-Hokowhitu, Stephanie Mitchell, Tawhanga Nopera
Towards a multimedia exhibition by Māori and Pacific artists.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $6,069
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Samoa House Library
Towards Samoa House Library's pilot education module.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $5,940
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sam Trubridge
Towards travel and presentation costs of work in the Site Specific Performance Festival programme, as part of the 14th Prague Quadrennial, Czechia.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $6,678
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
SculptureCenter
Towards an the first solo exhibition in a New York institution of New Zealand-born artist Fiona Connor.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Simon Sweetman
Towards a book about Phil Judd, the "forgotten man behind New Zealand's most important band".
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sjionel Timu
Towards The Coolies tour to Europe and the UK in 2019.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Suzanne Larmer
Towards clay workshops for artists with disabilities.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $6,356
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tacit gallery
Towards Tacit gallery running costs, 2019.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tauranga Art Gallery
Towards an exhibition tour to regional galleries of work by 90 year old renowned weaver Matekino Lawless.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $2,660
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tevita Vaka
Towards a community performing arts programme involving workshops which focus on Pacific heritage danceforms and customary practice.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Moana Community Fund
Te Whanau a Kauaetangohia Marae
Ko te whakahokia mai te tāonga toi o te moko ki te hapu o Te Whānau a Kauaetangohia.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $6,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Tim Bray Productions
Towards board development of The Operating Theatre Trust, creating the capability and capacity to ensure a sustainable future.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
UPSURGE Festival - Bay of Islands Arts Festival
Towards the development of video content for online promotion and support towards implementation of social media strategy.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Vanessa Gray
Towards developing a kaupapa Māori play.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Vinesh Kumaran
Towards exhibiting a photographic series of portraits of business owners at the Mangere Town Centre.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,495
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
West Auckland Kiribati Association
Towards a series of workshops learning about Kiribati dance, fibre arts and music.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Wilhelmina van Duijnhoven
Towards the first year of a two-year Masters at the University of Trier, campus Idar-Oberstein.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
