Auburn based visual artist, Carla Wherby is the first recipient of an innovative new scholarship designed to improve access to arts and cultural funding for artists with disability. Wherby’s uses extraordinary graphic and representational skills in drawing to depict the complexity of war in political and social history alongside the resilience of the human spirit.
As part of the AART.BOXX initiative, Accessible Arts has secured funding from Arts NSW for a $4000 professional development scholarship for an individual artist included in this year’s exhibition.
Nine individuals from a competitive pool of 33 applications have been selected to form the committee for AART.BOXX 2011, Accessible Arts’ bi-annual national survey exhibition. Generating ideas and discussions that propel the committee, will commence in mid September 2010.News
National profile for artists and access
Framing Gravity, the 2011 AART.BOXX exhibition presented by Accessible Arts was held at Sydney College of the Arts over two weeks in October 2011. The exhibition was attended by 570 people and a range of public programs were well attended including artist talks and art making workshops.
Artist talks included performance, text and verbal presentations by Kevin Meagher, Scott Trevelyan, Georgia Cranko and Clarrice Collien. John Demos developed his artwork titled Creation in the gallery throughout the exhibition, building on the work most days.
Approximately 200 people attended the launch of Framing Gravity, raising the national profile of artists with disability as well as highlighting accessibility for audiences in the visual and performing arts. This year’s exhibition included captioning on all video works; catalogues and room sheets in Braille; and audio described and Auslan tours.
A gallery of images from the artist talks and the opening night is now available online.