The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Report 2003/2004
Board of Trustees Founder Sir Ian Potter
Trustees Mr Charles B Goode AC (Chair) Professor Geoffrey N Blainey AC Mr Neil R Clark AO The Hon Sir Daryl Dawson AC The Hon Sir James Gobbo AC CVO QC Mr John B Gough AO OBE Professor Thomas W Healy Dr Thomas H Hurley AO OBE Mr Allan Myers QC (appointed November 2004) Mr Frank L Nelson Lady Potter AC, DLJ Dr P John Rose AO Professor Graeme B Ryan AC
Chief Executive Officer Associate Professor Kerry Bennett
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Mr Charles B Goode AC The year 2003-2004 was marked by a change of the executive leadership of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Associate Professor Dorothy Scott returned to The University of Melbourne after a three-year secondment from 2001-2003 inclusive. She brought to the role an enthusiasm for the diversity of the arts sector, transparency of the criteria that guide decision-making and a special respect for the aspirations of the many emerging artists across Australia. Dorothy takes with her sincere thanks for her outstanding leadership of both The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and The Ian Potter Foundation for the period of her tenure. Associate Professor Kerry Bennett was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and commenced in January 2004. We welcome her to the Trust and look forward to working with her over the coming years. The Ian Potter Cultural Trust continues as one of the few funding avenues available to early career artists and performers in Australia.
Approximately 70 talented individuals received The Ian Potter Cultural Trust award in the 2003/04 financial year. Total grants of just over $300,000 were paid, with commitments as at 30th of June 2004 of $250,000 to be paid in future years. An important part of the Trust’s work is The Ian Potter Music Commissions, a biennial program supporting the composition and performance of new Australian music. The 2003/04 financial year saw five composers receive Music Commissions at a memorable awards ceremony in October 2003 at the National Gallery of Victoria. I extend thanks to my fellow Trustees, to Dorothy Scott and Kerry Bennett, and to the staff of the Trust, for their work during the year. A special vote of thanks is offered to Mrs Pamela Maughan, who retired in September 2004 after 14 years of service. Her contribution to the Trust over that time in the area of financial administration is appreciated and she has our gratitude.
Report from the Chair
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Gratitude is extended to my fellow Trustees and to the staff of the Trust for their work during the year
Associate Professor Kerry Bennett It is with pleasure that I present this Report on the work of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust for the year 2003-2004. The Ian Potter Cultural Trust was established in 1993 to enable The Ian Potter Foundation to make grants to individuals in the arts. It is now in its 11th year of operation, and has made around 650 grants totalling more than $2 million to emerging artists wishing to further their careers in their chosen cultural field. My gratitude is extended to the late Sir Ian Potter, and to the Trustees and Pat Feilman for their vision in the early 1990s in rewarding young talent, in fostering further Australia’s cultural life, and in giving individuals a renewed appreciation for, and engagement with, Australia’s strong and diverse arts sector. I thank also my immediate predecessor, Professor Dorothy Scott, who has strengthened further the principles and processes of the Trust. This year is the first time a separate report has been produced for The Ian Potter Cultural Trust, having previously been incorporated into the report on the work of The Ian Potter Foundation. This reflects the increasing size, scope and influence of the Trust, and is in recognition of its unique and important role in creating turning points in the early stages of the careers of grant recipients. The report includes a brief listing of each grant made by the Trust during the 2003/04 financial year, and profiles of the careers of grant recipients in earlier years. The down-the-track successes, while not attributable directly to the Trust, are a reflection of the ability and creativity The Trust, through its award initiatives, helps to release and foster.
Report from the Chief Executive Officer The Ian Potter Cultural Trust receives hundreds of applications each year. Collectively, the submissions offer the Trustees a quarterly picture of the diversity and talent across Australia. In acknowledging responsibility to those who have dedicated time and effort to each application, reviewers endeavour to provide a fair and timely response. Award recipients travel to many parts of the world, and return to Australia with ideas, processes and skills that contribute greatly to the unique mix of arts and culture of this nation.
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The international experience gives award recipients a renewed appreciation for, and engagement with, Australia’s strong and diverse arts sector The Ian Potter Music Commissions is a separate, biennial program of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and is for the creation, and the inaugural performance, of new Australian music. It began in 1999 with the aim of expanding the audience for music by modern Australian composers through paid commissions. It will take on a new direction when it is run for the fourth time in 2005, with the awards to be divided into the two categories of established and emerging composers. I wish to express my thanks to all the staff of the Trust for their diligence and contribution during the year. Particular mentions are due to Maria Roberts, Program Manager for the Trust, for her commitment to its goals, Alexandra Williamson for her compilation of this inaugural report, and Mrs Pamela Maughan for her contribution to the financial management since the inception of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust.
Nurturing individuals, excellence and diversity for Australia
Sir Ian Potter Sir Ian Potter (1902 – 1994), founder and benefactor of The Ian Potter Foundation, was a visionary and internationally-minded leader in the period after World War II. He played a leading part in financing the development of industry and the semi-government authorities in the 1950’s and 60’s. Sir Ian was engaged in stockbroking and investment banking and on the boards of many leading Australian companies, and on those of the Australian subsidiaries of international companies. Sir Ian was committed to development of Australian cultural life. He served as Chair of the Boards of the Australian Ballet, The Australian Opera and The Australian Elizabethan Trust. His personal commitment has been reflected in the Foundation’s long history of support for arts organisations across Australia.
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Overview The Ian Potter Cultural Trust was established in 1992 by The Ian Potter Foundation to nurture excellence and diversity in cultural activities in Australia. Grants are to outstandingly talented individuals, in the early stages of their careers, to undertake a program of internationally-based career development. The awards support a very broad range of cultural endeavour across Australia. True to Sir Ian Potter’s passion for the arts, and particularly during the 1990s, awards have been predominantly in the performing arts and music sectors. The turn of the century sees awards across a number of additional sectors, including visual arts, conservation and cultural heritage, crafts, design, literature, radio, film, video and new media.
We support individuals who are passionate about their work, and have the potential to be outstanding in their chosen field, in an international context
Funding Principles The Ian Potter Cultural Trust receives around 300 submissions for funding each year and awards of up to $5,000 are made to 50-70 promising early-career individuals across all sectors of the arts field. The review process includes consideration to the following principles for award: the individual - is passionate and committed to excellence - has potential to be outstanding in the field, in an international context - has the initiative and ability to convert ambition to reality - is committing personal funds to the endeavour - intends to depart from Australia no less than three months after The Ian Potter Cultural Trust closing date for submissions the project - is planned carefully and comprehensively - has opportunities for building mentoring relationships - includes career advancing components - is focused on education and developing skills - has financial support from other sources - has an informed, realistic, modest and well-justified budget - has an informed and well-defined schedule for travel Usually, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust will not fund performances by the individual, exhibitions of works, the making of recordings, undergraduate study, academic research in the arts and related areas, standard equipment, or travel and formal courses of study within Australia. For further information please visit www.ianpotter.org.au/ipct.html
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Mr Raimondo Cortese Play-writer Raimondo Cortese received an Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant in 1998, enabling him to travel to Berlin to attend the Hebbel Theatre workshops, aiding his script/playwriting skills in his early career. He says the experience helped me enormously as it enabled me to travel and get in touch with people in the European Theatre scene.
At present, Raimondo is a co-founder of Ranters’ Theatre and holds master-classes interstate and overseas as well as teaching dialogue and continuing to broaden his own writing portfolio. He is currently in the process of developing a new play and writing a series of fantastical books for teenagers, whilst continuing talking at festivals where his work is often performed.
Raimondo explains that his European travels helped him to recognize what is unique about our own culture and this in turn has widened his diversity of writing styles and creativity. He was given the chance to establish contacts in Europe and to peruse the theatre scene globally, concluding that overall the work produced there was not better than it is in Melbourne. The main difference is that cultural workers in Berlin possess, generally, more confidence than artists here.
Raimondo encourages young writers to apply for grants which he sees as a lucky break or a privilege requiring self confidence and determination as much as talent. He also encourages young writers to diversify their writing and be fairly philosophical about what people term success. Raimondo is supportive of young writers in his field, but underlines that it’s important to be your own critic first and foremost.
Down the Track
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Profiling the successes of award recipients from earlier years
Ms Dijanne Cevaal
Mr Stephen King
Quiltmaker, writer and curator Dijanne Cevaal received an Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant in 1999 to undertake a residency in France at Chateau de Chassy en Morvan in Burgundy where she says she was able to partake of an incredible opportunity and build an international career.
Stephen King is a viola player who received a small Ian Potter Cultural Trust award in 1996 to supplement his scholarship from the Aspen Music Festival.
During her residency, Ms Cevaal created quilts and modern lace and explored the incredible textile history in Europe. Through exhibiting her quilts, she established her reputation as both an artist.. and.. curator. She believes the experience, as expressed by many award recipients, reinforced (her) determination to become more fluent in other languages. The cultural experience of the work and of the country contributed to knowledge, intrigue and creativity. The travel was impetus for creating contacts with exhibition organisers, curators and magazine editors from European Galleries. Ms Cevaal’s successful career has included making quilts, writing a book entitled Tifaifai Renaissance, curating travelling exhibitions of Australian and New Zealand work, a solo exhibition at Gallerie Boridesign in Aachen, Germany, and various joint exhibitions across the world. In the future, she plans to continue creating art and exhibiting in Australia and Europe, to write books and articles and to curate travelling exhibitions of the work of other Australian artists. For aspiring artists, Dijanne encourages them to believe in their work and to think outside institutional funding circles and the normal art circuit for opportunities.
Of Canberra origin, Mr King studied architecture whilst playing the viola with the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. He then earned a Graduate Diploma in Viola Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. His travel to the United States proved to be the beginning of a long period overseas and many successful performances and tours across the world. Mr King performed with the Coolidge String Quartet for four years, and worked closely with the Guarneri and Emerson String Quartets. He has also played with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He gained a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Chamber Music from the University of Maryland and was on the Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, teaching chamber music in the Preparatory Division and composing his own works for the viola. Continuing a career of informal and energetic contemporary performance of the classics, Mr King returned to join the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2003.
Mr Angus Trumble Art Museum Curator, Mr Angus Trumble is a graduate of The University of Melbourne in History and Fine Arts. He received a grant from The Ian Potter Cultural Trust in 1993 to support his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, where he accepted a Fulbright scholarship. Following this period in New York, Mr Trumble was appointed Associate Curator, then Curator, of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. In 2002, he was appointed Curator of Paintings at the Yale Centre for British Art at Yale University, and has since moved to the USA to work on a number of curatorial and research projects, including reinstallation of the permanent collection of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Centre for British Art, The Edwardian Age touring exhibition and the British Art and Naples touring exhibition. Scheduled for 2010 at both Yale and the National Portrait Gallery, Mr Trumble has written and curated Thomas Woolner – A pre-Raphaelite in Australia 1852-54.
Mr Trumble has written many exhibition catalogues and published books, including the latest entitled A Brief History of the Smile (2004, Allen and Unwin) now being translated into various languages, including Chinese, Korean and German. His next publication will be entitled The Finger – A Handbook. Though he summarises his career as comprising entirely of happy accidents, Mr Trumble sees the experience of work overseas as essential, and advises aspiring fine-art historians to keep a sense of proportion. He hopes to return to Australia in a directorial position or in retirement in the future.
A cultural experience towards intrigue, knowledge and creativity
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Grants Made in 2003/2004
Australian Capital Territory Leah Manwaring
$5,000
to undertake a self-directed residency at the London Printworks Trust from May to June 2004
New South Wales Judy Bourke Cymbeline Buhler
$1,000 $5,000
Natasha Bullock
$4,000
Chris Caines
$3,000
Rachael Coopes
$5,000
Louisa Dawson
$5,000
Catherine Jones
$4,000
Dominica Matthews
$5,000
Chloe Miller
$3,500
to conduct workshops in printmaking in Nepal to undertake a theatre study and teaching tour in India, Bangladesh, Thailand and the USA, from June to August 2004 to visit and work at the Camden Arts Centre, United Kingdom as a curator, during January 2004 to travel to Japan to work within the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International media laboratories, and to study the Japanese mobile phone system/culture during November 2003 to study acting at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris commencing in October 2004 to study sculpture for one year at the Hochschule Fur Bildende Kunste, Dresden under the direction of Professor Eberhard Bosslet to purchase an I-CubeX Sensor System, a range of sensors that work performatively with interactive software for the live manipulation of audiovisual effects and devices, for her work as a multi-media performer to undertake a Postgraduate Diploma of Performance (voice - mezzo soprano) at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the United Kingdom from August 2003 to study cello and to undertake various auditions in Amsterdam, Berlin and Baden, and to attend the 10th Internationale Meisterkurse fur Musik, in August 2004
Jane Stanley
$4,100
Helen Sturgess
$5,000
Tankstream Quartet
$5,000
Caroline Wenborne
$5,000
Alison Windsor
$4,000
to study composition at the University of Harvard under Professor Bernard Rands from January 2004, as part of her PhD studies at the University of Sydney to undertake a study program at the University of Arts, Berlin, April to July 2004 to attend several 'academies' at the Pro Quartet - European Centre for Chamber Music in Paris during March and April 2004 to undertake Italian language studies to assist with opera performance at The Michealangelo School of Language and Culture in Florence and the Leonardo da Vinci School in Rome to undertake a second year of study at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris, commencing October 2003
Queensland Jessica Butcher
$5,000
Jose Carbo
$5,000
Elizabeth Lamont
$5,000
Sarah Nicholson
$4,000
Judith Parrot
$2,500
to undertake a one-year postgraduate course in cello at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester commencing September 2003 to study in Rome during February and March 2004 in developing and preparing the role of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia to be performed with Opera Australia in September 2004 to visit key international Art Museums in New York and to undertake training at the Drawing Marathon starting September 2003 to undertake postgraduate training in literature (poetry) at the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University in Denver, USA during May and June 2004 to travel to Bolivia under the guidance of musician Miguel Ayma to research Aymara and Quechue communities and their relationship to place through their music, from October to November 2003
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South Australia Catherine Aldrete-Morris
$4,000
Antje Guenther
$3,000
Catherine Nunn
$5,000
Paul Peers
$5,000
Amanda Phillips
$5,000
Katherine Sutcliffe
$5,000
Alexandra Whitham
$4,000
to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and participate in a presentation at COLLECT, an art-fair for contemporary objects, to meet with Bullseye Glass Company in Portland and to present at LASALLE-SIA in Singapore to participate in a two-week workshop with the Polish theatre company during July 2004 to undertake an Internship in the Conservation of Easel Painting at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, The University of Cambridge commencing September 2003 to undertake the final year of the Master of Fine Arts Professional Directing program at Columbia University, New York to undertake a residency at the Young Choreographers project in Taipei, and to attend the 2004 International Dance conference, during July and August 2004 to undertake the one-year Orchestral Training Program in French Horn at McGill University in Montreal from January 2004 to attend a month long actor training course with the Shakespeare Company and Institute in Massachusetts, USA in January 2004
Tasmania Pippa Dickson
$5,000
Tom Holloway
$4,500
to study at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki in the Department of Interior Architecture and Furniture design, from August 2004 to undertake the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers program, from May to October 2004
Victoria Nina Apollonov
$5,000
Ru Atma
$3,000
Adrian Bosich
$5,000
Lucas Chirnside
$4,000
Kristian Chong
$5,000
John Cummins
$5,000
Rose Draper
$1,000
Michael Foster
$3,000
Eidit Golder
$4,000
Will Guthrie
$3,000
Andrew Harper
$2,500
Melanie Horkan
$3,000
Liz Hughes
$4,000
Siobhan Jackson Rosemary Joy
$5,000 $2,000
Lally Katz
$5,000
Glen Kniebeiss
$2,500
Flinders Quartet
$5,000
to undertake a placement at the International Management and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and to attend the annual Association of British Orchestras conference, December 2003 – February 2004 to undertake a three-month dance research tour of the USA, United Kingdom and Indonesia from April to August 2005 to complete his graduate film entitled Marco Solo as part of postgraduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts to travel to Brussels to undertake an Artist in Residence program at FoAM and to participate in the Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums conference (NODEM, 04) in Helsinki during May 2004 to undertake one year of postgraduate studies with renowned pianists Christopher Elton and Australian Piers Lane at the Royal Academy of Music in London from September 2002 to continue a course of intensive private vocal study with Carol Blaickner-Mayo in Vienna from October 2003 to January 2004 to complete her short film 'Etiquette of Analysis' as part of studies for a Graduate Diploma in Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts to visit San Francisco and New York from April to August 2005 to study and watch dance and choreography performance to attend the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Competition in Naples and the Robert Schumann International Competition for singers and pianists in Swickau, Germany during May and June 2004 to study percussion in London with improvising percussionist Eddie Prevost for three months from November 2003 to undertake a Post Graduate Diploma in Performance, majoring in clarinet, at the Royal Academy of Music in London from September 2003 to June 2004 to assist with the production of her Victorian College of the Arts graduation film Redskin to travel to New York to research media arts venues and to meet with curators, to assist in her work as Artistic Director of Experimenta to produce a film entitled Sweetness and Light to undertake a residency in Brussels at MUSiCLAB in Brussels during July 2004 to participate in a ten-week workshop at London's Royal Court Theatre Young Writers program to undertake three months intensive study in Tabla playing with Anthony Dass in New Delhi, India from October 2003 to undertake study with chamber music pedagogue, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, from July to September 2004
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Rebecca Lister
$5,000
Katherine Lukey
$5,000
Steve Martin
$2,300
Hannah Mathews
$5,000
Alastair McKinnon
$3,000
Stephen Morley
$3,500
Nadje Noordhuis-Fairfax
$5,000
Julia Robinson
$4,450
Sue Robinson
$4,000
Benjamin Wallbrook
$4,000
to attend the 2004 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska to undertake a postgraduate masters degree in performance (violin) at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria to attend the Art and Object Handling Course to be held at West Dean College in the United Kingdom in February 2004, and to visit other international cultural institutions to undertake an internship at the public art organisation, Creative Time, in New York during August 2004 to support the making of Fish Food as part of the final year of the Bachelor of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts to undertake further study with Tom Varner and lessons with John Clark in horn technique and improvisation and composition techniques in New York to study jazz trumpet by undertaking the Masters of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music from August 2003 to subsidise an international scholarship to attend and participate in ImPulsTanzWien - Vienna's annual international dance festival, during July and August 2004 to spend three months in Paris (including a 3 week visit to London) as a visual merchandiser, from July to October 2004 to undertake a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts to develop technical skills in standard surround sound formats for cinema from November 2003
Western Australia Holly Grace
$4,000
Andrew Nicholls
$3,000
to undertake a six-week mentorship with the British glass artist Neil Wilkin in Somerset, United Kingdom in August 2003 to undertake an artist-in-residency program at the Spode china factory in the United Kingdom from July to September 2004
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Grants made in 2003/2004 State
Number of Awards
Award Amount
ACT New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia
1 14 5 7 2 28 2
$5,000 $58,600 $21,500 $31,000 $9,500 $108,250 $7,000
Grants Made Total Grants Paid
59 $240,850
A separate, biennial program of the cultural trust is The Ian Potter Music Commissions program, in which is offered support for the composition and performance of new Australian music The inaugural commissions were awarded in 1999, with subsequent programs in 2001 and 2003 The program will be run again during 2005, with the final awards to be announced in October 2005
The Ian Potter Music Commissions 1999 Awards Martin Friedel Victoria Dominik Karski WA Kate Neal Victoria Damien Ricketson NSW
$23,000 $3,000 $20,000 $7,000
Cities of the Mind Matter of Perspective Hyrax Chinese Whisper
2001 Awards Andrew Byrne Victoria
$10,000
New Australia: Trans-Pacific Journey
Tim Dargaville Victoria
$13,120
Robia – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Andrew Ford NSW
$9,200
Graham Hair ACT
$23,400
Tales of the Supernatural The Flow of Occurrence (The Great Circle)
Matthew Hindson NSW
$7,500
10-15 minute work for baroque violin and harpsichord
Raffaele Marcellino Tasmania
$5,000
Universal Beatitudes
Larry Sitsky NSW Tim Stevens Victoria
$12,000 $2,500
Apocalypse Figuratis (Piano Concerto No. 2) Four Words of Elizabeth Hunter
2003 Awards Barry Conyngham NSW
$15,000
Now that Darkness
Elena Kats-Chernin NSW
$20,000
The Maiden and the Well Spirit
Ross Edwards NSW
$14,000
Southern Cross Chants
Nigel Butterley NSW
$29,500
Never this sun, and never again this watcher
Carl Vine NSW
$5,000
String Quartet No. 4
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