IMAGinE awards - 2013

The IMAGinE awards were held on 8 November 2013. Find out who won this year’s awards and what goes into making IMAGinE such a special night.

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Congratulation to all the winners.

To see the interview with Ray Christison click here.

Molong History News - Summer 2013

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History Week 2013 - Films of 6 Key Speakers

Andrew Tink. Why John Curtin May Never Have Been Prime Minister

  On 13 August 1940 three cabinet ministers died in a plane crash. Fatally destabilised, the conservative government gradually crumbled and a year later, John Curtin became prime minister. Although an RAAF officer was supposed to have been the pilot, rumours circulated that the Air Minister had been at the controls. But the bodies were badly incinerated, hampering the identification of those in the cockpit. The RAAF rather than the police had taken control of the crash site and had quickly removed the bodies. Forensic photographs of the victims in situ, which had been standard NSW police practice since the 1920s, were not taken by the RAAF. And for want of these photos among other things, the identity of the pilot will never be proved beyond reasonable doubt.

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Jo Henwood. More Than a Park Bench

In 1816, Macquarie opened one part of his lands to the public, officially inaugurating the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney with the completion of the Macquarie Wall, probably the oldest constructed element of the Garden. Throughout the next (nearly) two hundred years various people have contributed to the visual impact of the garden with statues, sculptures, fountains, walls, benches, bridges, steps, obelisks, pavilions and memorial plaques, to say nothing of the special plantings also intended as memory markers.

Each work made a statement about the values of the people who installed it, either aesthetically or in what they chose to remember. In this talk, Jo Henwood explores how the installations are seen with different eyes by contemporary viewers, so that some are retired and others take their place as the garden’s relationship with the people continues to evolve.

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Gary Werskey. The Image-makers of Federation Australia

In this talk, Gary Werskey invites listeners/viewers to contrast our own era — saturated by digitally produced and transmitted images — with the pre-Federation period, when the illustrated press monopolised the production of images which reflected and reinforced how the colonists saw themselves and the making of their country. One exceptional feature of pre-Federation images is that they were mainly produced not by photographers but by some of the era’s leading painters and graphic artists — most of whom were based in Sydney. Unfortunately for Sydney’s artist-illustrators, their art has since been sidelined by the art-world and its chroniclers in favour of the ‘Heidelberg’ painters.

One of the notable casualties of this telling of history was the Anglo-Australian artist A.H. Fullwood, who was equally prominent as a painter and black-and-white artist. He was also a close mate of Streeton and Roberts not only in Sydney but later in London at the Chelsea Arts Club and, during WW1, as medical orderlies at Wandsworth Hospital and official war artists. A Bohemian to his velvet boots he returned to Sydney in the 1920s and remained a lively presence in the local art scene until his death in 1930. The talk will feature a full range of his arresting images –so well known in his own day — which should provoke the audience to wonder why some image-makers (and their images) become lost to history. 

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Elisa deCourcy. The Body as the Archive

 Elisa deCourcy. The Body as the Archive
Many people know of old family photographs from the turn of the century or even earlier kept in albums or crates in an aunt’s attic or grandmother’s closet. The black and white figures in these pictures look, more often than not, awfully rigid and solemn.
In this presentation, Elisa deCourcy looks at family portraiture, among a number of other styles of photography from the nineteenth century including criminal mug shots, social portraiture and anthropological photography to explain how people were categorised according to class, gender, respectability and health according to how they posed for their picture. How did the angle individuals were asked to stand on, the distance of their face from the camera, their clothes and the props used in the picture, affect how the person within the frame was photographed into holding a particular identity?
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Jesse Stein. Pictures, Pranks and Printers

Isn’t the NSW Public Service the last place you’d find a rich culture of image making and unofficial creative practice? You might be surprised. Research into the history of the NSW Government Printing Office indicates that – far from being a dry account of mundane printing tasks – the final three decades of the Government Printing Office (1959-1989) were years of creative and resistant responses to hard times, resourceful adaptation to technological change, and a good deal of fun.
Jesse Adams Stein will take you on a rollicking ride through the eccentric working life of ‘the Guv’ – as it was known by its employees. Discover the unexpected stories that lie behind posed institutional photographs, and see how the Guv’s employees pictured their workplace through illustrations and amateur film. Witness the Guv awkwardly transform from hot-metal into computerisation, and enjoy the gallows humour that characterised the last days at the Guv in 1989.

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Naomi Parry. Children's Homes, In the Frame

 

 If photographs shape the world, what happens when you have no images of yourself as a child? This is the reality for many people who grew up in out of home care in 20th century Australia. Picture research is, therefore, one of the most satisfying elements of working on the Find Connect web resource, which is a national digital history project funded by the Australian Government to assist former care leavers to connect with their past. Image collections, whether created by the NSW Government Printing Office, institutional staff or the Australian Women’s Weekly, provide essential but contentious links to the past. In this talk, Find Connect’s NSW State-Based Historian, In her talk, Dr Naomi Parry will unpack some of these collections, and discuss how historians might navigate their use and reuse, balancing the desire of some to know with the sensitivities of others about the images they convey.

If photographs shape the world, what happens when you have no images of yourself as a child? This is the reality for many people who grew up in out of home care in 20th century Australia. Picture research is, therefore, one of the most satisfying elements of working on the Find Connect web resource, which is a national digital history project funded by the Australian Government to assist former care leavers to connect with their past. Image collections, whether created by the NSW Government Printing Office, institutional staff or the Australian Women’s Weekly, provide essential but contentious links to the past. In this talk, Find Connect’s NSW State-Based Historian, In her talk, Dr Naomi Parry will unpack some of these collections, and discuss how historians might navigate their use and reuse, balancing the desire of some to know with the sensitivities of others about the images they convey.

If photographs shape the world, what happens when you have no images of yourself as a child? This is the reality for many people who grew up in out of home care in 20th century Australia. Picture research is, therefore, one of the most satisfying elements of working on the Find Connect web resource, which is a national digital history project funded by the Australian Government to assist former care leavers to connect with their past. Image collections, whether created by the NSW Government Printing Office, institutional staff or the Australian Women’s Weekly, provide essential but contentious links to the past. In this talk, Find Connect’s NSW State-Based Historian, In her talk, Dr Naomi Parry will unpack some of these collections, and discuss how historians might navigate their use and reuse, balancing the desire of some to know with the sensitivities of others about the images they convey.

 

If photographs shape the world, what happens when you have no images of yourself as a child? This is the reality for many people who grew up in out of home care in 20th century Australia. Picture research is, therefore, one of the most satisfying elements of working on the Find Connect web resource, which is a national digital history project funded by the Australian Government to assist former care leavers to connect with their past. Image collections, whether created by the NSW Government Printing Office, institutional staff or the Australian Women’s Weekly, provide essential but contentious links to the past. In this talk, Find Connect’s NSW State-Based Historian, In her talk, Dr Naomi Parry will unpack some of these collections, and discuss how historians might navigate their use and reuse, balancing the desire of some to know with the sensitivities of others about the images they convey.
 

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‘A Moment in Time’ - book launch

2013-2015 NSW Heritage Grants

To all interested heritage owners and managers, individuals, organisations and local councils

2013-2015 NSW Heritage Grants

Funding for 2014-13 heritage projects

Applications open on 30 October 2013

The Minister for Heritage is pleased to launch the 2014-2015 NSW Heritage Grants funding program. The NSW Government has committed $5.96 million funding over two years to the 2013-2015 NSW Heritage Grants. We are pleased to notify you about funding opportunities to assist heritage projects.

NSW Heritage Grants aims to recognise and protect the State’s most significant heritage places and values to ensure future generations can enjoy them.

For program details and applications forms go to http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Heritage/funding/index.htm

Applications are now invited for

ü  Aboriginal heritage projects for a range of Aboriginal cultural heritage projects. Minimum projects $20,000; grants up to $100,000.  Closing date Monday, 2 December 2013

ü  Major works projects for conservation, maintenance and adaptive reuse of State Heritage Register listed items. Minimum projects $80,000, grants between $40,000 and $150,000.  Closing date Monday, 2 December 2013

ü  Community, youth and seniors heritage projects to deliver community heritage projects that build skills, confidence and connections. Minimum projects $25,000, grants generally up to $50,000. Closing date Monday, 2 December 2013

ü  Local government heritage advisors funding to local councils across NSW to engage heritage specialist advice for local communities to manage their heritage. Grants up to $7,500 to engage heritage specialist advice.  Closing date Monday, 2 December 2013

ü  Local heritage places grants funding to local councils across NSW for small grants for local works projects. Grants up to $8,500 for distribution for community heritage projects.  Closing date Monday, 2 December 2013

Applications are also invited throughout the year for

ü  Emergency works projects funding for emergency projects for State Heritage Register and heritage items with a current Interim Heritage Order. Minimum grants $10,000 for $10,000+ projects.

For further assistance with your project, please contact Victoria Throp on phone 02 9873 8577 or email victoria.throp@heritage.nsw.gov.au

Yours sincerely,

Miriam Stacy



Miriam Stacy
Senior Heritage Officer, NSW Heritage Grants
Heritage Division
Regional Operations Group and Heritage
Office of Environment and Heritage
NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet
Locked Bag 5020 PARRAMATTA NSW 2124
3 Marist Place Parramatta NSW 2150
T: 02 9873 8576 F: 9873 8599
E: miriam.stacy@heritage.nsw.gov.au 
W: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Heritage/funding/index.htm