Actor Haylee Whisson is RJAFTA 2021 Award Recipient
The Trustees of the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts are thrilled to announce the winner of the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts 2021. The Award Recipient for 2021 is Darlington actor/writer/director/producer/artist Haylee Whisson. Haylee received her award at the annual RJAFTA Award Soiree on 10 December, at the Mundaring Arts Centre.
RJAFTA 2021 Finalists Announced!
Congratulations to our 7 finalists in the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts 2021. Each finalist is vying for the opportunity to be awarded a scholarship of up to $10,000, to assist in funding a designated project. Congratulations to Hayley Whisson (actor/writer/producer), Michael Day (songwriter, musician), Bianca Walter (visual artist), Jo Meredith (visual artist), Finn Owen (photographer, musician), Briony Bray (photographer), and Ben Bulla (musician).
Propel Youth Arts
If you have an interest in arts, and especially in supporting young creatives, then get behind the dynamic team at Propel Youth Arts WA. Propel Youth Arts WA provides young people 12-26 with access and opportunities to engage with arts and culture “on their own terms”. It is a not-for-profit membership-based association established in 2003 as Youth Arts Network.
Where Are They Now? Kieran Ingram
Many RJAFTA award recipients are actively engaged in the same creative pursuit that won them their award. We delight in following their careers, and feel privileged to have played a small role in helping to elevate their artistic dream. But what have our previous award recipients been up to since winning their award? Fortunately we have been able to keep track of most of them. Today, meet an internationally acclaimed artist who divides his time between WA and the English countryside.
Design Artist Cara Baldwin wins RJAFTA 2020
Design Artist Cara Baldwin is the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts 2020 Winner! Cara is the first person living with disability to apply for, and win, this prestigious Award in the award’s 33 year history. The RJAFTA Trustees, and Friends of the Trust, are thrilled with Cara’s win and look forward to Cara’s Runway Show in 2021.
Inspiring Youth Talent Delight Audience
It wasn’t Corona Extra with its pleasant malt and hop aromas keeping us all 2 metres apart and bereft of live theatre, AFL grandstand experiences, and School Concerts these past 6 months. The Robert Juniper Award for the Arts Schools Concert, an annual fund-raising event, was held a little later than usual, and the format had to change to adhere to Covid 19 requirements. Rather than holding one concert with all schools performing to one audience, the evening was split into two sessions, with 3 schools performing in the first session and two schools in the following session
2019 Award Winner Announced
In deciding the 2019 recipient of the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts, the Judges unanimously recommended Olive commenting that her application “…had a solid outcome which is timely for her current career position. Olive is poised to become the new generation of female fine art photographers . ..”
Inaugural Winner of Young Adult Achievement Award for Theatre
Rachel has been organising and running the Hills Festival of Theatre for more than four years. She organises all aspects of the Festival from issuing invitations to state-wide theatres to submit plays, collating submissions, making scripts available to the adjudicators, programming the plays into the weekend and running the day to day works of the event
Musical Youth Light Up The Hills
More than 200 people braved icy, wet weather on the evening of Thursday 9 August to gather in the theatre at Eastern Hills Senior High School to hear young musicians from four local schools showcase their skills.
Trust Welcomes New Trustees
Two innovative young artists: composer Annika Moses and artist-designer Sarah Thornton-Smith have been appointed as trustees to the Mundaring Bicentennial Scholarship Trust, presenters of the annual Robert Juniper Award for the Arts.
Darlington Arts Fest Youth Art People’s Choice Award 2018
A pair of oil paintings exploring the subject of autism won the $400 People’s Choice Award in the Youth Art Exhibition at the Darlington Arts Festival in November last year
2018 Award Winner Announced
“Walking and riding through the bush gave me a love of nature and the Perth hills’ wildlife and flora,” says Nate. “A lot of the music I write is inspired by the places in which I grew up, the sounds I heard, and the things I found there.”