Top 10 finalists announced for the British Council's 2012 Realise Your Dream award
The top 10 finalists have been announced for the British Council's 2012 Realise Your Dream awards following a week of interviews in Sydney and Melbourne.The 10 young Australian creatives have been chosen to be in the running to win one of three Realise Your Dream awards, which includes $10,000 and a trip to the UK, where they will meet, work with and learn from their professional heroes.
Three panels of judges, featuring leading academics, arts managers and
practitioners, were given the tremendously difficult task of choosing
the 10 from over 650 applications, representing a huge range of art
forms. Applications came from all over Australia this year, most
markedly from Queensland, from which two of the finalists hail.
Says British Council Australia: "Realise Your Dream gives us an incredible snapshot of both the Australian creative industries and the potential partnership opportunities in the UK. The sheer talent, motivation and breadth of this year's finalists means the biggest hurdle we face is whittling down exactly which opportunities to support. Frankly, I pity the judges - it's an almost impossible task this year!"
The 2012 Realise Your Dream finalists are:
The top 10 will travel to Sydney to participate in a knock-out round of interviews, and to attend the 10th Anniversary Realise Your Dream awards ceremony at the newly refurbished Museum of Contemporary Art on 22 August, where the three winners of the programme will be announced.
Realise Your Dream is a British Council initiative, in association with Virgin Atlantic, BBC Knowledge, triple j, NIX Co, Boccalatte and Show Group.
Says British Council Australia: "Realise Your Dream gives us an incredible snapshot of both the Australian creative industries and the potential partnership opportunities in the UK. The sheer talent, motivation and breadth of this year's finalists means the biggest hurdle we face is whittling down exactly which opportunities to support. Frankly, I pity the judges - it's an almost impossible task this year!"
The 2012 Realise Your Dream finalists are:
- Jolie Herzberg (festival director and artistic producer, QLD)
- Saskia Moore (producer and artist, VIC)
- Kate Just (visual artist, VIC)
- Frankie Snowdon (dancer and choreographer, VIC)
- Phong Chi Lai (shoe maker, VIC)
- Emma Swift (radio announcer and producer, NSW)
- Sukhdeep Boghul (rapper and educator, NSW)
- Et Al (photojournalism collective, QLD)
- Sam Hodge (photographer, NSW)
- Elmo Keep (writer and broadcaster, VIC)
The top 10 will travel to Sydney to participate in a knock-out round of interviews, and to attend the 10th Anniversary Realise Your Dream awards ceremony at the newly refurbished Museum of Contemporary Art on 22 August, where the three winners of the programme will be announced.
Realise Your Dream is a British Council initiative, in association with Virgin Atlantic, BBC Knowledge, triple j, NIX Co, Boccalatte and Show Group.
Congratulations to Phong Lai, a passionate, hardworking and talented artist and most of all, fashion visionary! http://phongchilaihandcraft.com/
Please tell me that's Vivienne Westwood and not Margaret Thatcher on that poster.