Quick Response Grants Closing date: 1 Feb 2019
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.
101 grants totalling $646,193 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists, practitioners and arts organisations in this funding round. 243 applications were received, with a total of $1,553,995 requested.
General arts fund: 57 projects totalling $357,527 were supported. $1,149,807 was requested by 183 applicants.
Māori arts funds: 25 projects totalling $171,402 were supported. $214,565 was requested by 31 applicants. This includes 3 Toi Tipu Toi Rea Emerging Māori Artist recipients and 1 Tohunga Tukunga recipient.
Pacific arts funds: 19 projects totalling $131,542 were supported. $189,622 was requested by 29 applicants. This includes 1 Moana Community Grant recipient.
Funding recipients
Alexander Chalmers
Towards postgraduate study at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,391
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Alice Canton
Towards the research and development of a new interdisciplinary art project.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Alien Weaponry
Towards touring to North America including four festivals and twelve club shows in Mexico, USA and Canada.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Aloalii Tapu
To develop and create a full-length dance work to feature at Pacific Dance Festival 2019.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Anau Melie Women Development Group
Towards a series of community workshops teaching the Tongan heritage artform of lalanga kie.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $6,818
FUNDING POOL: Moana Community Fund
Ane Tonga
To travel and participate in the Pacific Arts Association XIII International Symposium, Brisbane, Australia.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $2,015
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Anna Miles
Towards the design of a photographic book on the work of Sara McIntyre to be published by Massey University Press.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $6,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Annette Morehu
Towards a three act play.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Anzac Tasker
Towards a body of work seeks to revitalise the art of Māori story telling on modern day hunting weaponry.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Arohart
Towards the initial set-up and easy maintenance of a website to take Māori and Hauraki art and art event.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $5,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Artichoke
To present an installation by New Zealand creative studio Storybox as part of the UK's largest light festival, Lumiere.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
ASSITEJ Aotearoa New Zealand
To support independent director Kerryn Palmer to participate in the 2019 Directors in TYA International Exchange, Berlin.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $2,380
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Auckland Studio Potters
Towards a one month residency for prominent French potter, Jean-Nicolas Gerard, at the Auckland Studio Potters Centre, late 2019.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $6,840
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ballet School Dropouts Ltd, Lauren Crewther-Devlin
To create a comprehensive burlesque dance syllabus.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $6,550
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Bianca Hyslop
Towards premiering a new full length dance work 'Pohutu' at Kia Mau Festival, 2019.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Canterbury University Press
Towards publishing a new collection by Frankie McMillan.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $2,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Cathy Livermore
Towards the development of new international artistic collaboration and professional development for profile and networks in Taiwan.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Chloe Klein
Towards the development of SOFT co.'s 'INFLATED REBEL' into a full length contemporary dance work.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $6,327
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Chris Gendall
To compose a new work for horn virtuoso Saar Berger to be premiered in Tel Aviv in May 2019.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,400
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Christopher Martin
Towards script development of a new Māori theatre piece.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Claire Mahoney
To tour Europe and undertake a residency at WORM/Klangendum Studio, Rotterdam.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $4,390
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Claire O'Neil
Towards attendance at Dance Massive to support development of the New Zealand dance sector.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $1,691
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki
Towards a solo exhibition of New Zealand painter Julia Holden's works.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $5,420
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Cora-Allan Wickliffe
To attend and showcase hiapo works at the Niue Arts and Culture Festival 2019.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $5,949
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Cubbin Theatre Company
Towards redevelopment of 'Play Play', an existing theatre show for toddlers.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Daisy Lavea-Timo
To write a debut collection of poems.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
David Downes
To make a high quality recording of a composition for electromechanical drum kit and electronic textures.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $3,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
David Jacobs
Towards a hui to explore themes at the meeting point of creativity and mental health, leading to a documentary.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
David Riley
Towards publishing a book about achievers who have Tokelauan ancestry, written especially for young people.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $3,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Deborah Hide-Bayne
Towards visiting a successful ceramic centre and a clay festival event in 2019 in the UK as templates for Driving Creek.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $2,666
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Donald Maurice
Towards the 'Cello for Africa' concert in November 2019, as part of a Sinfonia for Hope project.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $4,700
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Emily Hakaraia
Towards a performance in Otaki by Moana Maniapoto and Friends.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $3,523
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Erina Daniels
Towards a series of wānanga throughout the year that engage established, mid-career and emerging Māori Theatre practitioners.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
FAFSWAG Arts Collective
Towards travel costs to attend and exhibit work, 'Subordinate Tissue' at Emergency Gallery in Vevey, Switzerland.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Grace Bentley
Towards presentation of 'Woman of Citrus' at Basement Theatre, April 2019.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Hermione Johnson
Towards performing in Berlin and at the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $3,757
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Horomona Horo, Te Kahureremoa Taumata
Towards a wānanga for storytelling collective HAUMI E to develop new works to share with Aotearoa. We need pūtea so we can, HUI E.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $6,810
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
James Gardner
To write a c.12' piece for Melbourne-based Ossicle Duo for double-bell bass trombone and percussion.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Jason Wade
Towards a Waikato season of 'Hudson and Halls Live' at Clarence St Theatre.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Java Dance Company Ltd
Towards touring 'Back of the Bus' to the Xintiandi Festival 2019 in China.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $6,824
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
John Turi-Tiakitai
Towards a 4 day mini- symposium cultural exchange with Hawaiian Master weavers and artists.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,300
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Jonathan Crayford
Towards composing and demo recording of original piano works.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $5,210
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Joshua Lewis
Towards the participation in New Zealand's contribution to the Prague Quadrennial 2019, as Artist and Workshop Leader.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $2,090
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Juliet Palmer
To compose a new 10 minute work for the Auckland Chamber Orchestra.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Justspeak
Towards staging a powerful exhibition featuring portraits and stories of those who have been affected by the criminal justice system.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
karmen Thomson
Towards a four day master weavers symposium at the Kamakakūokalani campus in Hawaii.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $6,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Kia Kaha Productions
Towards an autobiographical book by Dean Hapeta chronicling Upper Hutt Posse and Ngātahi—Know The Links (a rap-u-mentary).
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Kimberley Annan
Towards a collaborative work of dance movement and film that explores an in-depth relationship between humans and spaces.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,318
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Laura Barton
To commission Dale Vail to compose a new work for the Tasman Trio.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $3,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Lima Productions
Towards rehearsal costs for a new Pasifika cabaret show to be performed at Auckland Live.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Louis Mikaere
Towards a solo exhibition about suicide-awareness.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,120
FUNDING POOL: Toi Tipu Toi Rea Fund
Lundberg / Perkins
Towards an exhibition of recent work by Patrick Lundberg and Oliver Perkins at Fold Gallery in London.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $4,156
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Malcolm Lakatani
Towards costs to perform at the Niue Arts and Culture Festival 2019.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Marcus McShane
Towards theInstallation and commission of 101 Rants at BATS Theatre, as a part of their 30th Anniversary season.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $6,721
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Maree Sheehan
Towards a project that is the honouring and affirmation of wāhine Māori identity through sonic-portraiture.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $5,900
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Massey University Press
Towards publishing the stories behind Frances Hodgkins' works, unearthed as the result of detective work by an eminent curator.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Matthew Galloway
To participate in the Cripta747 Studio Programme in Turin, Italy, for June and July, 2019.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $5,936
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Meleta Bennett
Towards flight to join with other renowned indigenous artists from Hawaii.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Mia Farlane
Towards writing the New Zealand-based, second half of 'Parallel Hell', a novel about suicide.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,280
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Moniek Schrijer
Towards participating in events related to Non-Stick Nostalgia at The Museum of Art and Design.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Motone Productions
Towards travel costs for Pacific and Maori artists to attend an international opera event in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Natasha Matila-Smith
Towards the development and production of new work.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pukenga Whakaata
Towards associated costs for an exhibition of portrait photographs by Edith Amituanai and George Crummer.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $2,713
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Nga Toi Hawke’s Bay
To initiate ‘train the trainer’ sessions in order to deliver ArtReach workshops in Hawke's Bay 2019.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,450
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Niutao Community Trust
Towards costs to host the inaugural Tuvalu Heritage Arts Fono 2019.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Olive Bieringa
To bring the one-on-one dance work 'Follow' to Auckland Art Gallery & Len Lye Center in 2019.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
O Moana Nui Performing Arts
Towards a series of intensive workshops exploring in-depth skill and technique of Tahitian ori.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $5,670
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Otautahi Creative Spaces
Towards a solo exhibition by Carmen Brown at Pumanawa, The Arts Centre, Christchurch.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,084
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Pacific Music Awards Trust
Towards digital design costs to add online content to an existing website.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $5,565
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Pacific Sisters
Towards fono costs to prepare opening activations for a retrospective exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Pasifika Pride Educators/Pasifika Fusion
Towards production costs for Pasifika Fusion 2019, a Pacific youth festival of performance arts.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Paul McLaney
Towards a Balletic Musical exploring the settlement history of Puhoi and the emigre experience.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Pelenakeke Brown, Katrina George, Owen McCarthy, Rodney Bell
To develop and create a video movement work for presentation at Movement Research, New York City.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,250
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Peter Dowling
Towards publihsing an upgraded edition of a classic work on tāniko weaving by Sir Hirini Moko Mead.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $4,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Pirate & Queen
Towards the 4th annual Lōemis festival.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Pop-up Globe Foundation Ltd
Towards building a musical resource for Auckland musicians to use and audiences to experience.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $2,250
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ruth Buchanan
Towards a new site specific commission at Kröller Möller Museum, The Netherlands.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,300
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sharu Loves Hats
Towards workshop at Cherokee to inspire and inform authentic audio and cultural mōhiotanga to compose a original musical score.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Shauno Isomura
To commission a new string trio by Gareth Farr to be premiered in the USA by the Mazzoli Trio.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $5,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
South Auckland Poets Collective
Towards a poetic theatre show celebrating the 10 year anniversary of South Auckland Poets Collective.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,168
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Stella Reid
Towards development of a tourable version of 'The Basement Tapes'.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,430
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Steph Matuku
Towards a children's chapter book with a female Māori protagonist, with a Māori worldview. Book 2 in the 'Whetu Toa' series.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Taane Mete
Towards the Institute for Creative Exchange (ICE) for the workshop Inviting the land to shape and Move us. Santee Smith is condu.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,439
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Te Hua o Kawariki Trust
Towards project Fees for Master Carver to oversee Whaikairo (carving) of 16 Pou Atua as key cultural artworks for Manea.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Te Hua o Kawariki Trust
To fund the purchase and carving of the first Pou Atua - Te Tomokanga (Archway) - a 7 week programme.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Terri Crawford
Towards an accelerated artist mentoring process.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $5,000
FUNDING POOL: Tohunga Tukunga Mentoring Fund
Te Toki Voyaging Trust
To present Waka Odyssey at international exhibition - The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and space 2019.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $7,490
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Te Wananga o Raukawa
Towards "Te Whānau Pāmu" a children's book written in Te Reo with fun characters from the farm.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
TGTB Charitable Trust
Towards a unique and dynamic community event in Glen Innes with lights, live performance and art.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,313
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
THE LARGE GROUP LTD
Towards remount costs of 2019 Auckland season of 'AN ILIAD' with Michael Hurst and Shayne Carter.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tikapa Productions
To present Maori Sidesteps, a 3-night season in Kia Mau Festival at Hannah Playhouse.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $4,880
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Toi Manawa Maori Art and workshops
Towards a series of 5 Bone Carving workshops delivered free to youth (10 - 18) at various venues across Auckland).
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Tui Ranapiri-Ransfield
Towards a live a unique international immersive experience-an exchange about process-it's exploratory,collaborative,presentational.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $7,439
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Tupuranga
Journal of Indigenous Writing from Aotearoa: towards website development cocts and to commission writing for a new online journal with writing from indigenous writers of Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ura Tabu Pacific Dance
Towards personnel costs for a series of community workshops which focus on pan-Pacific holisticism and forms of movement.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Victor Rodger
Towards research for a new work celebrating the life and work of Albert Wendt.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Visesio Siasau
Towards costs to develop work at a cultural exchange wānanga and participate in arts practice workshops in Hawai'i.
This content is tagged as Pacific .
AWARDED: $6,504
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Vix Pix Productions Ltd
To take up residency at the ICAC, Greece to create further expressions of a body of artistic work spanning thirty years.
This content is tagged as Inter-arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Wellington City Libraries
To support the cost of presenting UK-based New Zealand cartoonist Roger Langridge at ComicFest, Wellington.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $5,320
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Whanganui Literary Festival Trust
To present the best of New Zealand writers at a regional literary festival.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $7,440
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Xin Cheng
Towards the final semester of MFA at HFBK Hamburg and follow up activities around Europe.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $7,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
