toyota community spirit

 

$10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award

Applications now open for 2010

All exhibitors in the Toyota Community Spirit Program are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award. *

The Artist Travel Award is an initiative designed to provide artists with an opportunity to advance their career and expand their horizons through travel. The award invites artists to conceive a project involving travel either interstate or overseas that they believe has the potential to significantly enhance the development of their artistic career. There is also a $2000 Encouragement Award presented to one of the finalists.

 


 

About the Gallery

toyota atrium

The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery is located in Toyota Australia's corporate headquarters in Port Melbourne at 155 Bertie Street.

The gallery aims to provide space for artists, especially emerging artists to show their work. The gallery opened in July 2004 and runs a continuous program of exhibitions. The program is focused on local artists but also includes works by regional and interstate artists. Currently the works of more than 550 artists have been exhibitied. The space is provided free of charge to exhibiting artists, no commission is charged on sales and Toyota provides an exhibition launch and develops a catalogue for each exhibition.

gallery opening

 

Artists who have participated in the progam are eligible to apply for the Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award, a $10,000 award given to advance an artists career.

Toyota is working with the Hobsons Bay City Council, City of Port Phillip and Contemporary Sculptors Association on the Toyota Community Spirit project.

The Community Spirit Gallery is open to the public at Toyota Australia's Corporate Headquarters, 155 Bertie St, Port Melbourne Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm (closed on public holidays).

More information about Toyota Community Spirit here

Geoffrey Ricardo sculpture, Longer truths, longer lies (detail) painted & patinated copper from the 2008 Sculpture exhibition, Cryptozoology.

Merryn Trevenathan

Merryn J Trevethan, I don’t want to say i want you, oil on canvas from 2007 emerging artist exhibition New Days.

 

NOW SHOWING UNTIL 15 OCTOBER 2010

 

Toyota Community Spirit Gallery & Koorie Heritage Trust presents

 

PaRing Gallery

AN EXHIBITION BUILDING PATHWAYS BETWEEN FIRST AUSTRALIAN

CULTURE AND THE MELBOURNE BUSINESS COMMUNITY

 

Download invitation here (pdf 404kb)

Download exhibition catalogue here (pdf 2.3MB)

 

Exhibiting Artists: Megan Cadd, Will Carter, Vicki Couzens, Peter Waples-Crowe, Lee Darroch, Peter Farmer, Gerald Fysh, Mick Harding, Patricia Harrison, Coral Hayes, Kamahi Djordon King, Elizabeth Liddle, Helen Morris, Jilalga Murray-Ranui, Janet Ogsten, Patricia Pittman, Wayne Quilliam, Irene Ridgeway, Jenny (Tweety) Solomon, Lisa Waup & Gloria Whalan

Toyota Australia, 155 Bertie Street, Port Melbourne
[Mel Ref 2E B11. 109 Tram, Stop 127, North Port Station/Lightrail Port Melb]
Open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm or by appointment. Inquiries Ken Wong 0419 570 846

IMAGES ABOVE L-R [all details of works] Baby Cockatoo Feather photograph by Elizabeth Liddle, Aisaha photograph by Wayne Quilliam & Big fire dead bogong moth linocut print by Mick Harding

 

 

About PaRing Gallery

The PaRing Gallery aims to create PaRing (pathways) between the Melbourne business community and first Australian culture. The gallery is an initiative of the Committee for Melbourne’s business leadership program, the Future Focus Group, working in partnership with the Koorie Heritage Trust, and for this incarnation, the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery. In early 2008, dissatisfied with their level of understanding and connection to first Australian cultures, the Future Focus Group project team resolved to work together on creating conversations between Aboriginal Victorians and the mainstream population. The team agreed on a specific goal - to find a way for Aboriginal people to bring their art and culture deeper into the daily lives of Melbournians. By displaying this work in major corporate buildings across Melbourne, they felt they could help to create pathways between the cultures.

 

About Koorie Heritage Trust Inc.

The Koorie Heritage Trust Inc Cultural Centre aims to protect, preserve and promote the living culture of the Indigenous people of south-eastern Australia. 'Gnokan Danna Murra Kor-ki', is the motto of the Trust and is the combination of two Koorie languages and means 'Give me your hand my friend' and bridge the cultural gap. The Koorie Heritage Trust Inc believes that through education and promotion it can raise an awareness and appreciation of the cultural diversity of Koorie culture in south-eastern Australia and work towards the broader goals of reconciliation for all Australians. The Trust embraces reconciliation by having Koories and non- Koories working together, side-by-side from the Board level down. All of the Trust’s activities and projects focus on reconciliation, healing, moving forward and honouring what has been before. Since time immemorial the creation stories taught Koorie people how to care for and live in unison with the land of their origin. People, who came later from a variety of cultures, brought with them their own beliefs. Many do not know the intricate original stories of this land. Bringing Koorie stories forward to be included with all other stories, cultural practices and beliefs, brings an important balance to the Victorian community.

 


View past exhibitions in the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery

 

fear masks & new beginning

View past exhibitions from the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery

 

 


 

2010 CALL for ENTRIES - it’s ART: WEAR it!
Open to all textile and fibre artists

 

 

This exhibition with the theme Flair: Flame: Fusion offers established and emerging artists the opportunity to
- display their creations
- network
- market their work
- a chance to have their creation modelled at a fashion parade

Entry Forms and more information available from Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre, 5 Sargood Street, Altona


For entry forms and more information, phone 03 9398 2511 or email louisjl@bigpond.net.au

Applications close 2 August 2010