COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund secures the future of Melbourne Art Fair
Ronnie van Hout, Surrender, 2018 (Commission by Bendigo Art Gallery in partnership with the Melbourne Art Foundation and supported by Artwork Transport) Installation view, Melbourne Art Fair 2018.
MELBOURNE
.-Melbourne Art Foundation today announced it is a recipient of the Australian Governments COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund, which is designed to assist systemically significant Australian arts organisations that face a risk to their sustainability due to the impact of COVID-19.
The Australian Government has recognised the Melbourne Art Foundation, alongside The National Institute of Dramatic Art, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Contemporary Art, as a leading arts organisation with good prospects of maintaining its viability.
Five of the cars that put Britain on wheels
1934 Austin Seven Box Saloon.
LONDON
.-H&H Classics will offer five Austins that formed part of Sir Ray Tindles illustrious collection until recently at a sale on 14th April at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. They are being sold with No Reserve.
Damian Jones, Head of Sales at H&H comments: A British collection like this coming to the market in a post Brexit world from a great national classic car owner who also championed local journalism across the country, will doubtless create great interest when they go under the hammer at Duxford.
Born in 1924, Patricia known as the second Countess Mountbatten of Burma, was the great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She lived in Newhouse with her husband John Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne.Acco
Hackney artist sets up coaching service to support other artists after Covid wipes out income
Artist Lexi Zelda Stevens with her work, Scaffold Gallery, Paradise Works Manchester.
LONDON
.- Hackney artist Lexi Zelda Stevens used to earn her living working on live-events like Glastonbury festival and Londons large-scale public events, making art work alongside. One week last March her years work vanished in the space of a week, similar to many of the friends and colleagues she had built her career with over the last decade.
10 months on and she is working with artists across the UK to provide coaching support in these challenging times, reaching over 70 artists in 2020. This month she launches a Bursary for 25 artists and people working in the arts, who live or work in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest. The Bursary is in association with Civic State & Hackney Wick Underground and supported by the Foundation for Future Londons Westfield East Bank Creative Fu