19 December 2022
The Helpmann Academy has awarded ten emerging creatives across a range of creative disciplines with up to $3,000 in support through the second and final round for 2022, of our Creative Development Grants program.
Our Creative Development Grants support eligible emerging creatives with grants of up to $3,000 to kickstart new projects, research and develop ideas/new works or build skills, markets and creative practices.
Congratulations to the following Helpmann Academy Creative Development Grant recipients!
Benjamin Raschella (Flinders University graduate) with Alessia Lunetta and Patrick Prior (also Flinders University graduates) are film makers, who will produce a short film that abides by the tropes of a traditional western while being set in 1800’s rural South Australia.
Chérie de Klerk (University of Adelaide) is a singer-songwriter, producer and performer and will release two songs in 2023 that will be professionally mixed, mastered and engineered.
Danielle Lim (Flinders University) is an emerging Asian-Australian artist who is re-adapting Van Badham’s 2004 play, Bang On The Nerve, with a cultural lens. To be released in 2023.
Ellis Moseley (Flinders University) is an Adelaide-based artist, who is preparing for his first South Australian solo exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery in April 2023.
Felicity Boyd (Flinders University) and Zoe Gay (Flinders University) are Motus Collective. They will produce, choreograph and present a completely new version of their show, ‘The Leftovers’, with an entirely new cast of emerging local dance artists.
Gemma Salomon (Flinders University) is an early career writer/director who will direct a 15-minute gothic horror short film. The film will be produced by Adam Camporeale and submitted for a range of festivals is 2023.
Jamie Hornsby (University of South Australia) is an emerging playwright, performer, composer and photographer. He will write, compose, and produce the first draft of an innovative new Australian musical, called Shadow.
Maisie Broadhead (University of Adelaide) is a songwriter and saxophonist who will record a new EP of her original tunes with her band at Forest Range Studios.
Nat Penney (Flinders University) is cross-disciplinary artist, with a practice that engages with sculpture, kinetics, installation, and painting. Nat has been selected as a 2023 associate for the year-long Jam Factory program.
Sally Craven (University of South Australia) is an artist working across the mediums of sculpture, installation and video. She will take part in a three-month International Artist Residency at GlogauAIR Berlin.
Dates coming soon for our 2023 Creative Development Grants Round 1.
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Image: Sally Craven, bite the hand that feeds (detail), kiln-formed glass, ceramic tablet. Photo: James Field. Exhibited at Cement Fondu, Sydney, NSW, February, 2022.