Image caption: Past IPMIC winner Daniel Crooks’ PHANTOM RIDE, ACMI Gallery 2, 2016.
A joint initiative of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), The Ian Potter Moving Image Commission is a biennial award designed to enable an artist to produce an ambitious new moving image work that demonstrates a major development or shift in their practice.
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and ACMI are now calling for submissions from practicing Australian artists for the 2020 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission. The successful artist will receive $100,000 from The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and professional support including highly specialised curatorial, production and presentation expertise from ACMI.
The Ian Potter Moving Image Commission supports artists to create a new work that will further their practice. Expressions of Interest are for projects that are centred around the moving image and can be created by an individual artist or artist collaborations. The artworks must be designed for exhibition in a gallery context and there are no restrictions on the duration of the work or the number of channels used.
Chaired by ACMI Director and CEO Katrina Sedgwick, the judging panel includes experts drawn from across the Australian arts sector, including Craig Connelly, CEO of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and The Ian Potter Foundation, Annette Blonski, freelance script editor and script consultant, Rebecca Coates, curator, writer and lecturer, Darren Dale, director of Blackfella Films, Callum Morton, Professor of Fine Art at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture) and Emily Sexton, Artistic Director of Arts House.
The commissioned work will premiere at ACMI in 2020 as part of ACMI’s high-profile national and international exhibition program and will be accessioned to the ACMI Collection to sit alongside works by leading Australian and international artists including Anthony McCall, Bill Viola, Candice Breitz, Ian Burns, Lynette Wallworth, Johan Grimonprez and Warwick Thornton.
