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.
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.News
Committee await applications for AART.BOXX 2011
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.
The committee comprises of arts and disability workers, artists, designers, writers and a curator. AART.BOXX facilitator Josie Cavallaro said, “I am quite excited about the breadth of artistic and life experience that this newly formed committee will bring to the project.”
Committee members include Diana Robson, curator of the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. As an experienced curator, Robson was drawn by the diversity of creative and artistic expression that AART.BOXX fosters as being key to creating significant and engaging curatorial projects.
For disability worker Nicholas Kelly, it was his encounter with an artist at the 2008 exhibition that motivated him to engage with the project. “I met artist Tim Sharp at the 2008 exhibition and was inspired by the respect he has garnered from other artists for his talent”.
Rebecca Scrioli also made the decision to apply to the AART.BOXX committee after pondering on the successes of previous exhibitions. Sciroli describes herself as a proactive creative artist with a disability and states that she is keen to contribute to the committee with her personal insights.
In the following months, committee members will be preparing for the selection of artists for the exhibition. Applications are now open to Australian contemporary artists with a disability and will close on 8 October 2010.
The AART.BOXX exhibition will be held at SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, October 2011. For further information contact Josie Cavallaro, Arts Development, tel: 02 9251 6499 (ext 5) or email jcavallaro@aarts.net.au.