PRIME MINISTER CANBERRA
Embargo: 6 p~ m PRESS STATEMENT NO. 74
23 January 1974
The Prime Minister today approved grants for the crafts, totalling
$ 139,284.
The grants were recommended by the Crafts Board of the Australian
Council for the Arts, and go to all States.
The Chairman of the Crafts Board, Mrs Marea Gazzard, said that
these, as well as last year's grants of $ 199,481, showed a welcome
revival of interest in craft activities. The Board is again calling
for applications for grants from craftsmen throughout Australia to
encourage this interest.
Mrs Gazzard said that the Government's Crafts Inquiry, now fully
active, should bring to light a great deal of information on the
pattern the crafts were taking in Australia, which could be the
basis for future funding.
She added that it was particularly pleasing to see applications
from craftsmen wanting to train apprentices. Many valuable skills
had been lost in the past because craftsmen struggling to survive
had not been able to give time to training young people wishing
to learn a craft.
One grant of $ 3,000 is for the South Australian blacksmith, Richard
G Howard, of Stirling, to take on a trainee. A self-taught craftsman,
he travelled to England and Europe last year on a Churchill Fellowship.
Mrs Gazzard said that blacksmithing, which sounded utilitarian, was
also a fine art in its own right. The British sculptor, Tim Scott,
who will visit Australia next month at the invitation of the Visual
Arts Board, uses smithing techniques in his steel-and-perspex sculptures.
A number of sculpture students from East Sydney Technical College will
this year be attending a blacksmiths' course.
Another $ 3,000 grant goes to Ronald Edwards of Holloways Beach, Queensland,
to research surviving folk crafts in Australia. He will study pioneer
building methods, bush furniture making, the making of greenhide ropes,
fishing nets and traps and many other crafts. By tape-recording, photographing
and making diagrams, he hopes to make it possible for future
craftsmen to exactly reproduce traditional craft items.
2.
QUENSLAND CALOUNDRA1 POTTERY ART STUDIO To purchase two
pottery wheels and kiln building materials to equip
the workshop. 1,184
DAVID ROBINSON, to re-establish his pottery studio and
to study with a master potter in New Zealand for three
months. 1,500
RON EDWARDS, maintenance and travelling expenses to
undertake documentation of surviving folk crafts being
practised in Australia. 39000
NL$ SOUTH WALES
' YALLADIBEE' SCHOOL FOR INTELLECTUALLY HANDICAPPED,
to purchase two weaving looms, one pair of handcarders,
one electric spinning wheel and wool materials for
teaching crafts to the students. 115
ALBURY/ WODONGA DISTRICT HANDWEAVERS AND SPINNERS' GUILD,
to subsidise costs of four weaving schools to be
conducted by the Guild between March and August 1974. 200
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES, for salaries and
materials to conduct a workshop in embroidery, spinning
and macrame during the Summer School vacation. 800
ANDREW S HALFORD, to work with a master potter in Japan
for one year ( return economy air fare, expenses and
internal travel). 2,000
MR AND MRS KERRY MOORS, to purchase fabrics and dyes for
production of quality batik works. 1,000
t1ESIE A PETERKIN, to conduct a potters' summer school 434
-t T N CUNNINGHAM, to purchase pottery equipment to
-sotablish a workshop. 4,180
DOROTHEA ALLNUTr, towards return sea fare to England and
cost of further tuition in advanced embroidery courses
in London. 1, 000
MOONY E N McNEILAGE, travel and living expenses to undertake
research in Europe and South America for a book on
weaving. 1, 000
JAMES P THOMAS, to purchase materials to prepare for an
exhibition of wood and leather tables. 500
CHRISTINE AND RONALD COLLINS, maintenance and weaving
materials for one year to enable them to prepare for
an exhibition. 6,000
DYIIPNA MARSHALL, maintenance, equipment and materials
to enable her to experiment and further develop her
work in Batik. 3,000
KENNETH R BARNETT, to purchase materials and equipment
to produce a leather mural. 1,800
DIANA BOYNES, maintenance for four months to enable her
to work with a master jeweller. 670
JOAN ANTONELLIE, to subsidise maintenance to purchase
jewellery making tools and for further tuition courses under
a master jeweller. 2,267
HELGE LARSEN, travelling costs to attend the International
Symposium ' Jewellery of Steel' in Vienna. 800
SUZANNE ARCHER, for 12 month's maintenance and to purchase
a pottery kiln and wheel to enable work in ceramic sculpture. 3,500
JOHN DRAKE, to purchase jewellery making equipment. 500
BERNARD SAHM, for maintenance and materials to enable him
to further develop sculptural ceramics. 5,000
BRUCE N PRYOR, for kiln materials, ballmill plant and pugmill
to equip a pottery. 1,675
BEN HALL, for equipment and materials to enable him to study
guitar-making overseas. 500
KELVYN J ANDERSON, for maching and equipment to enable him
to establish a gem-stone carving workshop. 3,000
ALAN PEASCOD, for air fares, internal travel and living
expenses, camera equipment and film costs, to enable him to
study the behaviour of alkaline glaze materials in early
Egyptian and Islamic pottery, and the different design world
of this area and Mesopotamia. 5,000
VICTORIA IAN R FORSYTH, to produce a film showing all aspects of an
established pottery workshop. 950
HEIL F ANNGWIN, for maintenance and jewellery-making materials
and equipment to enable him to continue the parallel
appl~ ation of rebin and sliver as one art form. 3,500
KIM NM&" INyf4Pb" chase a pugmill and pottery wheel to
equip a workshop. 1,000
PAUL JA. i141 16 enable him to establish himself as a
professional potter. 2,600
K L ESON,>'@-tui economy air fare, internal travel, living
expenses entrance fees and purchase and maintenance of
films and tapes to enable him to do researoh on crafts in
the UK, USA and Southern Europe. 5,000
HEDLEY POTTS, towards costs of economy fare, travel and
living expenses, entrance fees, tapes and photographic
records to enable him to examine the role of crafts in
Europe, UK, USA, Israel and Canada. 3,000
PAMELA BROWN, to purchase materials and equipment to set
up a silk screen workshop. 500
WENNETH BUCKLAND, maintenance to enable her to teach
spinning and weaving, to hold workshops, and to prepare for
an exhibition. 2,600
HAN EDAVERS AND SPINNERS GUILD VICOTIRA, to pay one
year's salaries of teachers to conduct courses in basic
spinning and weaving techniques. 2,000
VICTORIAN CERAMIC GROUP, to purchase a carousel type slide
projector and scfeen and to conduct five pottery workshops. 1,475
CARLTON FREE COACHING SE'RVICE, for materials and equipment
and part salary for a co-ordinator. 4,000
CRAFT' ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA, assistance with costs of clay,
textile, macrame and tie-dye materials and equipment for a
' Craft Happening' during the next Moomba Festival. 500
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
KINGSLEY J MARKS, air fare to enable further study of
ceramics in Great Britain and Europe in 1974. 1,500
JUDITH A BARNES, towards cost of return economy air fare,
living and travel expenses, and weaving materials and
equipment to enable her to study and work in South America
for 2-3 years. 3,000
PETER N HARVEY, to purchase equipment for Clarendon Pottery. 2,000
CAROLE A FOOKS, for air fare and tuition fees to enable her
to study ceramics overseas in 1974. 1,500
PRU MEDLIN, to cover costs of employing an assistant in
her weaving workshop for one year. 3,633
RICHARD G HOWARD, to employ a trainee in his blacksmith's
workshop. 3,000
ANN CAMERON-SMITH, to purchase consumable and basic equipment
to establish a pottery workshop. 3,420
ROBERT J KNOTTENBET] T and PETA VAN ROOD CNOTTEBEir, to
purchase kiln materials, kiln furniture, pottery shelving
and blunger to establish a pottery. 2,090
CqAFT ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, return air fare to
Australia for Sam Herman to conduct lectures and workshops
in glass blowing. 2,133
TASMANIA CYNTHIA MITCHE, 3LL, to purchase equipment and materials for
a pottery workshop. 3,169
PENNY SMITH, for equipment to establish a pottery workshop. 3,000
JOHN SMITH, to purchase machinery and equipment to set up
a workshop to produce prototype furniture. 3,000
NORTHEIRN TASMANIAN POTTERS GROUP, for lecturing fees, air
travel, freight and gas cylinder for a five day pottery
seminar for members. ' A
VESTERN AUSTRALIA
PENELOPE J WARD, maintenance for 12 months to work for
a jewellery exhibition, and to purchase equipment and
materials for her workshop. 3,600
RINSKE CAR, maintenance and rent to enable her to develop
her wcrk in the field of tapestries and production of wall
hangings for an exhibition. 3,000
ERIC CAR, for maintenance and jewellery-making equipment
and to 3ubsidise the employment of a trainee. 4,600
BUNBURY ARTS CENTRE, to purchase pottery, spinning and
weaving equipment and materials for use by members. 2,000
ART WORKSHOP FOR CHILDRFN, towards costs of 12 months
part-time training of two creative art leaders to undertake
and guide organisation of craft activities at the workshop. 3,840
CRAFT ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, to purchase equipment
for woodwork, metal work and screen printing workshops,
library material and photocopying machine, office equipment
for administrativ3 contre. 7,900
CRAFTS COUNICIL OF AUSTRALIA, for visit to 1974 World Crafts
Council Exhibition in Toronto by the two World Crafts
Council representatives in Australia, the Executive
Secretary of the Crafts Council of Australia and the Editor
of ' Craft Australia'. 4,800
Total no. of grants 59 TOTAL AMOUNT RECOMNDEM $ 139,284