Bruny Island Foundation for the Arts

21/06/2021

ACTING OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG PERSON. A film-maker awarded one of the Bruny Island Foundation for the Arts' Fellowships is seeking expressions of interest from a child (boy or a girl) aged 6-8 years old, with their parents' permission, to appear in a short film set on Bruny Island. The child/family will need to live in Tasmania, and preferably reasonably close to Bruny. Please indicate your interest by emailing [Email address hidden] To see more about the film-makers (Danielle Baynes and Andrew Burford) go to: https://www.brunyislandfoundation.com/bruny20

11/06/2021

Glass and music installation, featuring art of Caroline Rannersberger and sonification of Huon Pines by Sam Nester. Waterside Pavilion, Hobart. 17-27 June. On during .

04/06/2021

GLASS HOUSE ARCADIA SOUNDSCAPE INSTALLATION by Caroline Rannersberger

A Living Memorial to Tasmanian Ecology

Waterside Pavilion Hobart Tasmania
17-27 June 2021

Performances: 

11am -5pm, 17-27 June: Huon Pines, electronic biodata sonification arranged by Sam Nester (New York)

5pm Friday, 18 June; 5pm Saturday 19 June: Julius Schwing, guitar (Tasmania) and Alf Jackson, percussion (Tasmania) accompanied by Huon Pines, electronic metadata arranged by Sam Nester (New York)

5pm Monday, 21 June: Fergus Oates, guitar (Tasmania) improv with Huon Pines, electronic biodata sonification arranged by Sam Nester (New York)

17/11/2019

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the BRUNY20 Fellowship of the Arts:

- Rodney Hall and Imogen Hall (Writing/Photography)
- Danielle Baynes and Andrew Burford (Film/Music)
- Sarah Maher (Painting)

For more information on the each of the BRUNY20 Fellowship Projects, go to our website: www.brunyislandfoundation.com

Our sincere appreciation goes out to all those who applied. The overall quality of the applications was very impressive, as aptly expressed in a note from BRUNY20 selection panel member Jarrod Rawlins (Senior Curator, MONA):
"It was a pleasure to once again be involved in this great initiative...We saw an amazing number and variety of applications, and as a curator I look forward to reading these every time, to learn about new amazing creatives in this country is a special privilege. Bruny is a unique place to be, and it will be a thrill to watch the outcomes from artists coming from such diverse backgrounds."

Our gratitude to the BRUNY20 principal sponsor, brunyislandau: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1025952027537589&ref=content_filter

03/11/2019

Thank you to all those who submitted applications for the BRUNY20 Fellowship. We received 274 applications in total.

We are delighted with the calibre of work, and are humbled by the breadth and depth of quality, innovation, and overall artistic merit. We are also impressed by the standard of research on concepts relating to Bruny Island.

Through recent activity, including our residency program and now the Fellowship, Bruny Island has become an important place in which artists are able to make outstanding work. Indeed, the submissions to BRUNY20 are testament to the increasing importance of place as a pivotal element in producing new and important work.

The panel of assessors includes Jarrod Rawlins, Senior Curator, MONA; Dr. Elizabeth Day, Sydney based visual artist and part time Bruny resident; Julius Schwing, musician and Bruny Island resident (and peer assessor with Australia Council) and myself (I am also a peer assessor with Australia Council). We may also call on specialists in other fields, including literature and film, as required.

I should also add a note of thanks to our wonderful sponsor, Bruny Island Coastal Retreats who have very generously provided the funds and accommodation to support the three artists selected for the Fellowship.

We will post the three finalists on our website mid November. We wish we could offer everyone something, but at the very least, we hope that the process has helped further refine the thoughts and practice of all those who made applications, in preparation for their next project, or an expression of interest in Bruny Island Foundation for the Arts initiatives in forthcoming years.

Dr. Caroline Rannersberger
Creative Director BRUNY20

19/10/2019

BRUNY20 $75,000 Arts Fellowship. Three fellowships, each valued at $25,000. Applications close 31 October 2019. Application form: www.brunyislandfoundation.com. Image from Bruny Island Edge 2 MONA FOMA collaboration. Original music score: Julius Schwing. Artwork: Caroline Rannerberger (2015). Generously supported by Bruny Island Coastal Retreats.

26/09/2019

A great article in The Hobart Mercury's arts section by Linda Smith about the $75,000 Bruny20 Arts Fellowship.

"He spends his days making music in the Big Apple, but trumpet player, composer and installation artist Sam Nester has discovered that the nature-rich landscape of the Apple Isle is also a perfect place to fuel creative pursuits. Originally from Brisbane, Nester is based in New York, where he teaches at the prestigious Juilliard School and is the artistic director and trumpeter of Bridge Arts Ensemble.
He recently spent four weeks on Bruny Island, recording music made by the local plants – and now the 31 year old is encouraging other artists to put Bruny in their sights...
...“Bruny Island is a truly inspiring place,” he says. “The forests, bushlands and pristine beaches have certainly made a lasting impression on me"...
Nester visited Bruny as part of a residency from the Bruny Island Foundation for the Arts. Residencies have been so successful on the island that the existing program is now being expanded with a new BRUNY20 Fellowship. The fellowship, valued a $75,000, will be split between three Australian artists, with at least one of them from Tasmania. It is open to all artists including visual artists, musicians, writers, performers, filmmakers, new media and multi-disciplinary artists.
Each artist will receive four weeks accommodation on Bruny Island between June and August 2020 to start a new body of work around the theme of environment. Upon returning home, artists will have several months to consolidate the new work, with an exhibition and/or performance on Bruny Island in December 2020. More details can be found at brunyislandfoundation.com. Applications close October 31."

https://www.themercury.com.au/lifestyle/tasweekend-artist-sam-nester-taps-into-natures-rhythms/news-story/e0cd0979ded3ff2af31f68cca65dcbab

HE spends his days making music in the Big Apple, but trumpet player, composer and installation artist Sam Nester has discovered that the nature-rich landscape of the Apple Isle is also a perfect place to fuel creative pursuits.

15/08/2019

Bruny Island Foundation for the Arts is delighted to announce the $75,000 BRUNY20 Arts Fellowship. This is an opportunity for three artists to formulate, research and create new work based around four weeks’ field work on Bruny Island, Tasmania. Each successful artist will receive a stipend of $16,600 and accommodation on Bruny Island to the value of $8,400. For details, go to our website: www.brunyislandfoundation.com. This project is generously supported by our Principal Partner: www.brunyisland.com.au

01/08/2019

Sam Nester was one of the Foundation's 2019 artists-in-residence. He is an Australian musician from Juilliard in New York. He made music with Bruny Island's rainforest. See it to believe it:

16/07/2019

We're just a little bit proud that our 2018 Bruny Island artist-in-residence, Jennifer Mills, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award.

The trustee of Australia’s most prestigious literary awards, Perpetual, has today announced ten talented authors who have been included in the 2019 shortlist for the Miles Franklin Award.