The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government established in 1963. It invests in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally.
68-552: The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Te Tumu Toi is a New Zealand arts organisation that supports artistic excellence and facilitates private philanthropy through raising funds for the arts and allocating it to New Zealand artists. The foundation produces award programmes that provide recognition and money prizes to New Zealand artists working in across all art forms. This includes writers, fine artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers, theatre-makers and screen artists. The concept of setting up an organisation to raise private funding for
136-722: A future Icon Award ceremony following the artist's death. In 2008 the Arts Foundation began commissioning oral histories from Icons. In time, the foundation hopes that an oral history will be deposited with the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington covering the life of each Icon artist. This will ensure the artists' stories are on public record and available for future generations. In October 2020, multiple allegations of historical sexual abuse were made against composer Jack Body , who had received
204-496: A lifetime of achievement. Artists considered to have prominence and outstanding potential receive The Laureate Award. Artists in the early stages of their career were selected to receive a New Generation Award , and now receive a Springboard Award and mentorship from a Laureate or Icon. In partnership, the foundation produces the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award , of $ 25,000NZD to assist
272-502: A memorial fund in his name. Victoria University said in response that, although no direct allegations had been made to the university, it would temporarily remove mentions of the memorial fund from its website "in recognition of the serious nature of these allegations" and investigate further. In November 2020, the university said that it had been approached by former students who had given "very credible accounts" of abuse. The university said that it planned to work with survivors to design
340-539: A number of CDs of traditional Asian music. Indonesian music is documented in Music for Sale: Street Musicians of Yogyakarta (OMCD 006, and TC HLS-91), Music of Madura (CD ODE 1381) and Jemblung: Sung Narrative Traditions (PAN 2048CD). South of the Clouds , a 4-CD set released on Ode Records, documented rare field recordings of Chinese ethnomusicologist Zhang Xingrong. Body's facilitation of international exchanges played
408-805: A postgraduate student, Body began corralling artists and musicians for events and projects. A considerable crowd of avant-garde Auckland artists gravitated around his Birdwood Crescent flat in Parnell. In 1967, while president of the New Zealand Chapter of ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), Body organised a festival called Aucklanders and the Arts in the University of Auckland Student Union Building. An Arts Council Grant in 1969 enabled Body to travel to Cologne to study at Mauricio Kagel 's Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. With an extension of
476-527: A process of 'double-transcription', which he described as transcribing the essence of the musical source in the recording in such a way that would be playable by Western musicians. Whenever possible, Body used field recordings he himself had made, and used the original music in its entirety. Works employing these transcription techniques include Melodies for Orchestra (1983), commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to mark
544-961: A project to commission new works from New Zealand and Chinese composers for the traditional Chinese instruments of the Forbidden City Orchestra , working jointly with the New Zealand String Quartet. These works were premiered in Beijing in December 2013 with subsequent performances in Auckland and Wellington in March 2014. In October 2020, a number of former students at the New Zealand School of Music reported being sexually assaulted by Body, after being asked by Victoria University to consider donating to
612-494: A publisher of New Zealand musical scores which Lilburn had founded. Body was editor of Wai-te-ata Music Press from 1981 to 2013, during which time the press became the largest publisher of New Zealand music. Body founded the Nelson Composers' Workshop in 1982, an ongoing annual gathering of young, emerging and established New Zealand composers where new works are performed and critiqued. He promoted New Zealand music in
680-459: A restorative justice process, which could involve formal apologies, compensation and policy changes. The Arts Foundation's chairperson Garth Gallaway also advised that it had suspended its endorsement of Body as an Arts Icon while it "awaited further information". In January 2022, the university issued a formal apology to Body's former students, stating: We believe the stories we have heard. We deeply apologise to our former students and staff for
748-612: A scalpel, nail-file, felt-tip pen and even ball-point pen, Body worked the images by scratching and re-colouring to evoke a painterly quality. The audio-visual installation Runes (1984), commissioned by the Wellington Art Gallery , juxtaposed re-coloured photographs of graffiti in public toilets with recordings made in toilets of running water. Besides his work as a composer, Body's activities as an ambitious organiser and curator of musical events made an enormous mark both on New Zealand's composing community as well as on
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#1732773343945816-580: A significant role in promoting Asian music and musicians in New Zealand. In late 1974 Body assisted ethnomusicologist Allan Thomas in bringing from Cirebon , West Java to New Zealand the country's first set of gamelan. Body later managed the Victoria University Gamelan Padhang Moncar (gamelan orchestra) for many years, during which time he commissioned several new works for the gamelan orchestra. Also while on
884-522: A significant way to the development of the arts and artists in New Zealand. The recipients are chosen by Arts Foundation Governors, with each recipient receiving a plaque designed by Auckland artist Jim Wheeler. To date two awards have been made: The inaugural recipient was the University of Otago in recognition of its contribution to the arts community through its Burns , Hodgkins and Mozart Fellowships . The three Fellowships were set up through
952-484: A small orchestra of New Zealand musicians. A last-minute funding cut left the opera in perilous straits, but an eleventh-hour fundraising effort by Body and Chapple secured its performance. One recurring theme in Body's work is the music of non-Western cultures; another is non-normative sexual identity. Body's music-theatre piece Songs & Dances of Desire (2013), written while Auckland Philharmonia Composer-in-Residence,
1020-545: A year in Yogyakarta, Body met linguist Yono Soekarno (or Sukarno) in an Indonesian post office and who was to be his partner for his remaining 40 years. Body was gay; fellow composer Ross Harris said that Body "was a gay artist.... that was a basic position from which he did his work". At the end of 1977, Body and Soekarno returned to Wellington, where Body worked as a freelance composer while tutoring at Victoria University and running workshops in secondary schools. 1980 saw
1088-582: Is allocated to Toi Uru Kahikatea Arts Development and Toi Tōtara Haemata Leadership Investments. In the 2023 - 2025 cycle this is a total of NZ$ 104 million over three-years between 81 organisations, with all also sourcing income from other places. Funding is available for artists, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds projects and organisations across many art-forms, including theatre , dance , music , literature , visual art , craft object art, Māori arts, Pacific arts, Inter-arts and Multi-disciplinary. Creative New Zealand funding
1156-503: Is based on the life of Carmen Rupe , an anti-discrimination and AIDS activist as well as the first Māori drag performer . The work features three vocalists: a counter-tenor performing Carmen's arias from Bizet's eponymous opera, a female vocalist singing in Māori , and an operatic mezzo-soprano singing in Spanish. The poems sung by the two female vocalists are by female poets from around
1224-462: Is distributed under four programmes: Creative New Zealand funds Toi Ake that seeks to protect, develop and retain the heritage of Māori arts / ngā toi Māori . The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is the governing board of Creative New Zealand. In the 2015 report the Council consisted of 13 members. Creative New Zealand is a crown entity and works within a legislative framework formed by
1292-487: Is from Lotto it fluctuates dependent on numbers of lotto and instant kiwi tickets sold. In 2011/2012 Creative New Zealand received NZ$ 27.5 million of lottery funding and with NZ$ 15.7 million from the Arts Culture and Heritage budget. Between 2010 and 2019 Creative New Zealand's crown funding was static with NZ$ 15.89 million annually. In the 2014/2015 the breakdown was approximately 30% central government funding and
1360-742: Is made annually to a person, couple, or private trust for the outstanding private contributions they have made to the arts. The Award for Patronage is presented by Perpetual Trust. As a community of artists and arts supporters, the Arts Foundation honours those who contribute significantly as patrons. Annually, a donation of $ 20,000NZD from the Arts Foundation is provided to the recipient of this award for them to distribute to artists, arts projects or arts organisations of their choice. Philanthropists Denis and Verna Adam (2006), Dame Jenny Gibbs (2007), Lady Gillian and Sir Roderick Deane (2008), Adrienne, Lady Stewart (2009) and Gus & Irene Fisher (2010) have been recipients. All recipients have chosen to double
1428-619: The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship awarding a residency to Menton in France for a writer. The Arts Foundation of New Zealand established the Icon Awards as a means to celebrate and acknowledge New Zealand art-makers who have achieved the highest standards of artistic expression . Limited to a living circle of 20, Icons are pioneers and leaders from all arts disciplines, living and working around
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#17327733439451496-852: The set of gamelan gifted to the orchestra in May 1974 by the Indonesian ambassador to New Zealand. Field recordings made by Body in South-East Asia formed the source material for many of his electronic and electro-acoustic pieces, such as Musik Dari Jalan (1975), Musik Anak-Anak (1978), Fanfares (1981), and Interior (1987). Intimate Histories no. 1 (2005) features a personal oral history of Yono Soekarno, Jack's partner, coloured by field recordings which Body made in Soekarno's Indonesian hometown in 1977 and 1988. As well as creating tape pieces from these field recordings, Body also developed
1564-557: The 100th anniversary of the University of Auckland , Three Transcriptions (1988), commissioned by the Kronos Quartet , and the orchestral work Pulse (1995), which combines transcribed material from the Baining people of East New Britain , Papua New Guinea , with fragments from symphonic works by Beethoven , Berlioz , and Stravinsky . Several of Body's works stake out a decidedly political stance. Little Elegies (1985)
1632-573: The 1998 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts . Alley is based on the life of Rewi Alley, a New Zealand-born writer, political activist, and member of the Chinese Communist Party who lived and taught in China from the late 1920s until his death in 1987. With a libretto co-written with Geoff Chapple, Alley's biographer, the opera featured Gansu folk singers Ji Zheng-Zhu and Li Gui-Zhou, Beijing's Huaxia Chamber Ensemble , and
1700-761: The Akademi Musik Indonesia in Yogyakarta (now in the Indonesian Arts Institute), invited him to return in 1976 as a guest lecturer. Body's return trip to Yogyakarta was supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although Body was teaching Western music practice at the Akademi, his experience living in Yogyakarta enabled him to learn about the region's traditional music, as well as make numerous field recordings of local music and environmental sounds. After
1768-753: The Arts Council Grant, Body was able to study at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 1969 to 1970. Returning home in 1970 via travels through Greece, North India, and Jakarta sparked Body's lifelong fascination with non-Western musical traditions. On his return to New Zealand, Body took up a teaching position at Tawa College in Wellington , but resigned after one year to focus on freelance composition projects. Body travelled to Bali and Java for four months in 1974, after which
1836-581: The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Act 2014 and the Crown Entities Act 2004 . Jack Body John Stanley Body ONZM (7 October 1944 – 10 May 2015) was a New Zealand composer, ethnomusicologist , photographer, teacher, and arts producer. As a composer, his work comprised concert music, music theatre, electronic music, music for film and dance, and audio-visual gallery installations. A deep and long-standing interest in
1904-410: The Arts Foundation launched Boosted a crowdsourced funding platform. The Arts Foundation Awards celebrate achievement in an artists career. Donations come from Patrons of the Arts Foundation and other sources and are awarded directly to artists at the annual New Zealand Arts Awards . Promotion of the arts is also part of the mandate of the Arts Foundation. In September 2019, the Arts Foundation launched
1972-482: The Border") received its Australian premiere at the 2015 Canberra International Music Festival. A memorial concert honouring his life was held at St. Andrews-on-the-Terrace, Wellington, on 24 May 2015. Body's earliest works, such as choral pieces Ave Maria Gratia Plena (1965), People Look East (1965), and Carol to St. Stephen (1975) reflect Body's early training as a church musician. His travel to South-East Asia in
2040-753: The Dunedin Multicultural Weavers Association so cultures could exchange their artforms and Indigenous stories, and in the same year Emily Schuster became the convener of a steering committee to look at the needs of weavers around New Zealand. In 1993 the Arts Council restructured with separate general and Māori arts boards. In 1994 the crown entity of Creative New Zealand replaced the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. In 2012, Creative New Zealand introduced Toi Uru Kahikatea Arts Development and Toi Tōtara Haemata Leadership Investments to replace
2108-498: The Harriet Friedlander Scholarship Trust and the Arts Foundation launched a new international residency. A supporter of the arts, Harriet Friedlander also loved the vibrant culture of New York. When Michael and Harriet Friedlander and their sons Jason and Daniel designed the residency, Harriet was clear that she did not want to place any expectations or responsibilities on the recipient. An artist
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2176-664: The Recurrently Funded Organisations funding. Arts Development Investments provide funding for three years for established artists, arts practitioners, groups and arts organisations. Since the 1980s Creative New Zealand's funding came also from the Lottery Grants Board (now the Lotto New Zealand ). In 2006/2007 Creative New Zealand received NZ$ 15.45 million in base funding. Since the majority of Creative New Zealand's income
2244-506: The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and employee of the local power board. Body's first composing efforts as a child were re-composing his prescribed Royal Schools exercises and performing them at end-of-year piano recitals in the local church hall. Body attended secondary school as a boarder at King's College, Auckland. There, his interest in both music and painting was kindled amidst the school's dynamic musical life under
2312-609: The University of Auckland, Body also took organ lessons with Peter Godfrey and sang in the choir of St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral , Parnell. In 1965 he was appointed organist and choirmaster of St. Aidan's Anglican Church in Remuera. After graduating his BMus with first class Honours, Body began his Masters of Music in 1966, studying composition with Ron Tremain in his first year and Robin Maconie in his second. He completed his MMus, along with an additional teaching degree, in 1967. As
2380-501: The artists will have already demonstrated excellence and innovation through their work. Similar to other Arts Foundation Awards, the New Generation Award may be presented to an artist working in any arts discipline. Teacher, critic, theorist and organiser of contemporary creative practices, Jon Bywater ( Auckland ) curated the award in 2006, while writer, teacher, painter, curator Gregory O'Brien (Wellington) undertook
2448-679: The arts through its recording collaborations and the Douglas Lilburn Prize (a joint initiative between Concert FM and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ). In 2009 a third presentation was made to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery , New Plymouth. In making their selection, Arts Foundation Governors acknowledged the commitment by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery to the cause of contemporary art, particularly from Aotearoa New Zealand, over
2516-423: The arts was initiated by Creative New Zealand in 1997. Its chair Brian Stevenson approached Richard Cathie to chair a working party on the subject and Sir Ronald Scott was appointed consultant, with help from Gisella Carr. Early working party members and trustees included Mary, Lady Hardie Boys; Gillian, Lady Deane; Dame Jenny Gibbs; Sir Paul Reeves; Sir John Todd; Sir Miles Warren; and Sir Eion Edgar. The foundation
2584-424: The award in 2015 shortly before his death, by a number of his former students. In November 2020, the allegations were described by Victoria University as "very credible", and the Arts Foundation announced that it had suspended Body's status as an Arts Icon while it "awaited further information". In January 2022, following a formal apology by the university to these students, the Arts Foundation confirmed that his award
2652-541: The career of a photographer, and the Harriet Friedlander Residency , which is a residency in New York valued at $ 80,000NZD. The Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award was presented for the first time in 2011. The award is presented every two years to a children's book illustrator with published work of a high standard and includes a cash gift of $ 15,000. The Arts Foundation also administers
2720-453: The composition faculty at Victoria University, Body established a residency inviting musicians from regions in South-East Asia (among others, West Java , Bali , Kalinga , and Minangkabau ) to work closely with the university's performers and composers. The year 2000 saw the 25th anniversary of Gamelan in New Zealand; to mark the occasion, Body co-organised BEAT, an international gamelan festival with over 100 international participants. Body
2788-550: The creation of new works, or the freedom to concentrate time and resources into the development of their career. Out of the Limelight Award recipients for 2021 were: The Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Awards, celebrate artists’ early achievements through an investment in each recipient’s career. Biennially, five artists are awarded $ 25,000NZD each, and a sculpture designed by glass artist Christine Cathie. Although still at an early stage of their career,
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2856-903: The cultural life of the country. Some of Body's earlier projects were the Sonic Circuses, the first of which took place in Wellington in March 1974, commissioned by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation and the New Zealand Students' Arts Council. Loosely inspired by John Cage 's Musicircus, the 6-hour-plus event featured New Zealand music performed across eight different venues within the Victoria University Student Union building. A second Sonic Circus followed in 1975. As an ethnomusicologist, Body published
2924-533: The early 1970s, where he encountered local musical traditions, significantly re-formed his compositional language. Many of Body's works are scored for both Western and non-Western instruments such as gamelan , sheng , and gangsa . Resonance Music (1974), for electric guitar and 6 percussionists, features gamelan; its premiere by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra made first use of
2992-490: The first New Zealand Arts Month. This campaign was supported by Creative NZ , Chartwell Trust, NZME , Phantom and Go Media. Jessica Palalagi was appointed general manager in 2022. There is no application process for the awards. Artists are selected by an independent panel of arts peers or curators and recipients of awards are selected without their knowing they are under consideration. The Arts Foundation administers this process. The Icon Awards, Whakamana Hiranga recognise
3060-411: The funds for distribution through a matching contribution of $ 20,000NZD, with Gus and Irene Fisher donating $ 30,000NZD of their own funds, meaning an annual distribution of up to $ 50,000NZD. Recipients have also chosen to distribute an amount of $ 10,000 each to artists and /or arts projects. The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Governors' Award recognises an individual or institution that has contributed in
3128-462: The generosity of anonymous benefactors and have subsequently been funded by additional grants to maintain their value. The second presentation was made to Concert FM (now Radio New Zealand Concert ). The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Governors recognised the contribution that Concert FM has made in supporting New Zealand composers, musicians, writers and actors at a national level. The Arts Foundation also acknowledged Concert FM's contribution to
3196-487: The highest award given by the New Zealand Arts Foundation and the first composer to be so honoured. In November 2020, Body's status as an Arts Icon was suspended by the Arts Foundation following allegations that Body had sexually abused male students at Victoria University . In January 2022, following a formal apology by the university to these students, the Arts Foundation confirmed that his award
3264-681: The international sphere, serving for many years on the executive committee of the Asian Composers' League (ACL). He was artistic director of Asia-Pacific Festivals & Conferences in 1984, 1992, and 2007: ten-day events juxtaposing traditional and contemporary music of New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. In 2002 he curated a series of five concerts of New Zealand music at the Ijsbreker in Amsterdam. In 2011, Body embarked on
3332-422: The last four decades. The Marti Friedlander Photographic Award, supported by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand is presented every two years to an established photographer with a record of excellence and the potential to carry on producing work at high levels. The award includes a donation of $ 25,000NZD for the photographer to use as they please. The inaugural recipient selected and announced by Marti Friedlander,
3400-512: The leadership of music teacher L C M Saunders, with whom Body took piano and organ lessons. On completing secondary school, he applied for the Elam School of Fine Arts but instead chose to study music at the University of Auckland, beginning a Bachelor of Music in 1963. At that time composition was not offered as a course of study at an undergraduate level; nevertheless, Body composed prolifically during his undergraduate years. While studying at
3468-533: The life of Rewi Alley , a New Zealand political activist in China. Celebratory concerts in honour of Body's 70th birthday were held at both the University of Auckland and Victoria University Wellington in April 2014. After a long battle with cancer, Body died 10 May 2015 in Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington, the day after his meditation on mortality "Cries: A Border Town" (originally entitled "Cries from
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#17327733439453536-419: The music of non-Western cultures – particularly South-East Asian – influenced much of his composing work, particularly his technique of transcribing field recordings. As an organiser of musical events and projects, Body had a significant impact on the promotion of Asian music in New Zealand, as well as the promotion of New Zealand music within the country and abroad. In 2015 he was named a New Zealand Arts Icon,
3604-483: The remaining from Lotto. In 2015/2016 there was NZ$ 30 million in Lotto funds, in 2018/2019 it was NZ$ 39 million in Lotto funds and in 2019/2022 it was NZ$ 47 million. In the 2022 budget Creative New Zealand received NZ$ 16.68 million baseline funding. Crown funding for the arts through Creative New Zealand has not expanded with population growth of almost 1 million people between 2006 and 2022. Approximately 55% of funds
3672-544: The retirement of Douglas Lilburn as composition professor at Victoria University (now the New Zealand School of Music ); Body applied for and was offered the position. Body remained on the composition faculty of Victoria University until his retirement in 2009. Body lived out the rest of his life in Wellington, amidst countless travels overseas. His first trip to China was in 1985, whereupon he began formulating ideas for what would become his opera Alley, based on
3740-618: The role in 2008 and arts radio journalist Lynn Freeman in 2010. From 2020 a Springboard award is given to up to ten emerging artists. This consists of NZ$ 15,000 and mentoring from one of the alumni of Arts Foundation Laureates, Icons, New Generation, residency or Fellowship recipients. Criteria relates to potential for a sustainable career. 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 The inaugural Mallinson Rendel Illustrators award, initially worth $ 10,000 occurred in 2011. It has been awarded every two years up to 2017, and has increased in value. The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage
3808-437: The world which have been translated from their original language into English, and then re-translated into either Māori or Spanish. In addition to concert music, Body composed prolifically for screen. He wrote the theme music for television drama The Longest Winter (1974), New Zealand's first Māori language TV drama Uenuku (1974), and New Zealand's first soap opera, Close to Home (1975). Body's first feature film soundtrack
3876-461: The world. The criteria has changed away from the terminology of 'best' which is subjective in the arts, instead focusing on the significance of work and the impact on New Zealand. The Arts Foundation website states: Arts Foundation Laureate Awards celebrate and empower New Zealand’s most outstanding practising artists - artists whose practise also has an impact on New Zealand. Laureates are able to use their award in any way they choose, for example, in
3944-405: The world. To date, 41 artists have been acknowledged as Icons. In 2003, eight artists were honoured, followed by one in 2004, seven in 2005, five in 2007, five in 2011, five in 2013, two in 2015, five in 2018, and three in 2020. Each Icon receives a medallion and pin designed by sculptor John Edgar . The recipient is gifted the pin in perpetuity, while the medallion is presented to a successor at
4012-632: Was Edith Amituanai – a widely exhibited artist and a finalist in a number of awards, including the 2008 Walters Prize . Extended family and immediate community are primary subjects for Edith; she collaborates closely with her Christchurch and Auckland relatives as well as people she grew up with in West Auckland . John Miller (an independent social documentary photographer, renowned particularly for his protest images) and Mark Adams (a photographer working with subjects of cross-cultural significance) were joint recipients in 2009. On 26 June 2008,
4080-646: Was Gregory O'Brien and the inaugural recipient was filmmaker Florian Habicht . Creative New Zealand Creative New Zealand started out as the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council which was set up in 1963. Prior to that in the 1940s because of centennial celebrations the government set up a cultural office within the Department of Internal Affairs , the New Zealand Film Unit and a national orchestra. A literary fund
4148-538: Was also established. The Māori and South Pacific Arts Council (MASPAC) was part of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. They were set up in 1978 to 'encourage, promote and develop the practice and appreciation of the arts and crafts of the Māori and South Pacific people in New Zealand.' One of the things they did in the early 1980s was acknowledge weaving as an artform which had been a desire of Ngoi Pēwhairangi . In 1983 MASPAC awarded funding to Misa Emma Kesha to establish
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#17327733439454216-427: Was an advocate for New Zealand music and composers. In 1975, Body released a three-LP set of New Zealand electroacoustic music, New Zealand Electronic Music (Kiwi-Pacific LP, SLD 44–46), realised in the electronic music studios of Victoria University. In subsequent years he would edit over twenty CDs of New Zealand music. In 1981, at Douglas Lilburn's behest, Body re-activated the then-dormant Wai-te-ata Music Press ,
4284-500: Was commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 25th anniversary of television broadcasting in New Zealand. Rather than marking the occasion with a celebration of televised communication, Body intended for the work, which featured a video reel, to critique television's sanitization of global events, trauma, and suffering. A major work in Body's career is his opera Alley , premiered at
4352-465: Was for Vincent Ward's Vigil (1984). Body co-wrote with John Gibson the soundtrack to another Ward film, Rain of the Children (2008). Body was also an active art photographer, though untrained, whose unconventional work was shown in several New Zealand galleries. The Male Nude Series (1983) featured male nudes in vibrant colours, created through manipulations of the film negatives. Using
4420-481: Was incorporated as a charitable Trust in 1998 with Richard Cathie remaining as chair. Seed funding of $ 5m was secured from The Lottery Grants Board payable over five years and the foundation was launched in 2000. In 2002, Simon Bowden was appointed Executive Director and in 2003 the organisation held its first awards. By 2008 the Arts Foundation had established an endowment fund of NZ$ 6 million and donated $ 3 million to over 100 artists across arts disciplines. In 2012,
4488-573: Was no longer recognised by the organisation. Jack Body was born 7 October 1944 in Te Aroha , a town in the North Island farming district of the Waikato. Both parents came from farming families; his father, Stan, was an earthmoving contractor. Seeing his older sisters take piano lessons, Body convinced his parents to let him follow suit, and began piano lessons from William Cranna, a graduate of
4556-724: Was no longer recognised by the organisation. Initially there were five artists honoured annually at the New Zealand Arts Awards ceremony receiving a Laureate Award of a NZ$ 50,000 grant each and a commissioned sculpture by Terry Stringer. No awards were awarded in 2018, and in 2019 the amount of the prize changed to NZ$ 25,000, new partnerships and awards were introduced and the Laureate Award will be given to up to ten practising artists. Established in 2019: Established in 2020: Laureate Artists are New Zealanders practicing in any arts discipline, located anywhere in
4624-427: Was to be sent to New York to have an "experience", all expenses paid, so that they could immerse themselves in the culture and process it in their own way. One of the most generous residencies offered to a New Zealand artist, up to $ 80,000NZD is made available every two years for their travel and living expenses. This opportunity is available to an artist aged 30 to 40, practicing in any discipline. The inaugural curator
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