ANNUAL REPORT 1 JULY – 30 JUNE The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Online: www.thearts.co.nz Backing artists to make their mark Email: [email protected] THE ARTS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 19/20 FOUNDING AND LIFETIME PATRONS: JOSH BAILEY. ROS & PHILIP BURDON. BRIDGET & GARY BRENT. RICHARD & FRANCES CATHIE. THE CHARTWELL TRUST. SIR RODERICK & GILLIAN, LADY DEANE. CHRISTINE & RICHARD DIDSBURY. SIR EION & LADY JAN EDGAR. JAN & TREVOR FARMER. KEITH & HELEN FERGUSON. GARTH & LISA GALLAWAY. DAME JENNY GIBBS. JOHN & JO GOW. HARRIET FRIEDLANDER TRUST. ERNEST & CATHERINE HENSHAW. CAROLINE HUTCHISON & HENRY VAN ASCH. DAVID LEVENE FOUNDATION. ANN MALLINSON. SIR WILLIAM & LOIS MANCHESTER TRUST. PETER & JOANNA MASFEN. FAY PANKHURST. KATHY & CHRIS PARKIN. ANDREW BOWKER & GAIL PEARSON. FRAN & GEOFF RICKETTS. SIR JOHN & TEENA, LADY TODD. NANCY & SPENCER RADFORD. JUDITH & BRIAN ROBINSON. DIAN & DAVID ROSS. DEBORAH SELLAR. JENNY SUTTON. JIM & SUSAN WAKEFIELD. SIR JAMES H WALLACE. AINSLEY WALTER & MARK STEWART. SIR MILES WARREN. ANONYMOUS. ARTS LEADERS: BURR/TATHAM TRUST. EDGAR FAMILY. JILLIAN FRIEDLANDER. THERESA GATTUNG. GLENN & SONJA HAWKINS, MY ART. ABBY MCCORMICK O’NEIL & CARROLL JOYNES. THE MALLINSON RENDEL TRUST. MATTHEW PRINGLE & SARAH LYNDS. SIR ROGER HALL. TODD TRUST. ANNONYMOUS. ARTS INVESTORS: MARY BIGGS & PETER BIGGS CNZM. LIZ & PAUL BLACKWELL. HALL CANON. KENT & GAYE GARDNER. THE HAWKINS FAMILY. CAROLINE HUTCHISON & HENRY VAN ASCH. KATE LANE. JENNY & ANDREW SMITH. PHILIPPA, LADY TAIT. ANONYMOUS. MARK MAKERS: LYNLEY & STEVEN ANDERSON. MARION BOTHERWAY. DEBRA & KOTAHI. MARK BOWER. MIRANDA BURDON & ANDREW WALLACE. MERLE COONEY. JEFFREY COSTELLO. CHRISTINA DUTHILL & ARNAUD DAURAT. CHANEL & DEAN FARMER. MENG FOON. DAME JENNY GIBBS. PIP GREENWOOD & DAVID GIBSON. JO & TERRY GOULD. ANN LOUISE GOWER. CATHERINE & MICHAEL HERON. JADE & BEN HURST. THE HYNDS FOUNDATION. JULIANNE & LIZANNE KNIGHTS. THANK YOU ANITA LUXTON & JOHN O’SULLIVAN. SIR CHRISTOPHER MACE & LADY DAYLE. AMELIA MCCAMMON & PHILIP ANDREW. LEAANNE O'SULLIVAN & ANDREW VINCENT. RACHEL & NEIL PLIMMER. DAME PATSY REDDY GNZM, QSO. KATE GILLESPIE & MIKE ROBERTSON. SUSANNAH & PAUL ROBINSON. GABRIELLE TASMAN & KEN LAWN. JENNY TODD. ROGER & JO WALL. SARAH WALSH. ANONYMOUS. ARTS BACKERS: MARGARET ANDERSON. GAYE & MICHAEL ANDREWS. WARREN AUSTAD. HON. FOR BACKING MARGARET AUSTIN. JANET & JOHN BLAIR. RICHARD BURRELL & DIANE POTTER. SIR MICHAEL BOYS & MARY, LADY HARDIE. LIZZIE & MAL BROW. KATHRYN & LUKE CARTER. PHILIP CARTER. ROSSLYN CAUGHEY. ANNE CLARKE & WAYNE BOYD. PAUL COLLINS. JOSEPHINE CONNOR. ANNABEL CROPPER & DAVID PILBROW. ROSEY EADY & DAVID NICOLL. VICTORIA & HAMISH EDGAR. LIANNE DALZIEL. LIZZIE DE LAMBERT. SUSIE & ALFONS DES TOMBE. DINAH & ROBERT DOBSON. ANNE ARTISTS TO DONNELL. IRENE & MICHAEL FISHER. STEVEN GENTRY. LORENA GIALLONARDO & ALEX GIMINEX. AGNIESZKA TYNKIEWICZ-GILE & TREVOR GILE. EARL GRAY / SANGRO CHAMBERS. LAURENCE GREIG. ROZ & ROB GREIG. TRISH GRIBBEN. TOSS GRUMLEY. ANNE COTTRELL & PAUL HERRICK. PROFESSOR LES HOLBOROW. BEN & JADE HURST. JOSEPHINE LAMBERT. ROSE & SIR DEREK MAKE THEIR LARDELLI. ESTELLE MARTIN. JILL MCDONALD. ROBYN MCLEAN. LEIGH & DONALD MELVILLE. CHARLOTTE & STEPHEN MONTGOMERY. BILL & ANGELA MORAN. VICTORIA MUIR. EMILY & SAM NELSON. CHRIS PAULSEN. PRUE & DENVER OLDE. PHILLIDA PERRY. LYN & BRUCE ROBERTSON. LESLEY & MICHAEL SHANAHAN. RICHARD & LISA SINKE. MARY SMIT. JOHN SPOONER. CHARLOTTE TAPPER. CLARE & JUSTIN VAUDREY. JAN WARBURTON. LINDA & WARWICK WEBB. GERDA MARK. MCGECHAN & PETER WILSON. SUE & DAVID WAYMOUTH. PHILIPPA WILLIAMS. LYNN WHITFIELD & SIMON VODANOVICH. BRENDA YOUNG & COLIN POST. ARTS FOLLOWERS: KYLIE ARCHER. LISA BATES. JO & ALISTAIR BLAIR. RICHARD & KATE BURTT. ANGELA BUSBY. ERROL CLARK. GRANT COLLIE. JONTY CRANE. DIANA & COLIN CROMBIE. LIANNE DALZIEL. ANNA DICKIE. ANNE DONNELL. JOANNE EDWARDS & TAINE RANDELL. DOMINIC FEUCHS & KIRSTY GREGG. ANTHONY FLETCHER. KATE FORTUNE. HEATHER GALBRAITH. ANDREA HAMMOND. MARIANNE & GUY HARGREAVES. ANN HATHERLY. MICHAEL HODDER. MARY HUTTON. ANNA JACKSON. JENNY MAY. BARBARA MOSES. VICTORIA MUIR. STACEY NAISH. ROGER & LYNDSAY PARTRIDGE. ANDREW PATTERSON. GINNY RADFORD. KAREN ROSS. PAM & BRIAN STEVENSON. DEIRDRE TARRANT. ROSE THODEY. GEOFF THOMAS. NICOLA THOMAS. KERRIN & NOEL VAUTIER. DAME GILLIAN WHITEHEAD. KIRSTY WOOD. LEGACY DONATIONS: GRAEME CAMMICK. DAVID CARSON-PARKER. CAROLE ADA CLIFF. KELVIN & VALERIE GRANT. SIR JOHN TODD. NOTIFIED LEGACIES: ALISTAIR BETTS. JAMIE BULL. JOHN DOW. LORRAINE ISAACS. HELEN LLOYD. PAMELA & BRIAN STEVENSON. ANONYMOUS [9]. P.02 P.03 THE ARTS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 19/20 THE ARTS FOUNDATION 2019 — 2022 EVOLUTION STRATEGY. “IT IS EXTRAORDINARY TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE ALL OUT THERE AS KAITIAKI. THEY SAY THAT WHEN YOU GIVE, SOMETHING ALWAYS COMES BACK. YOU GIVE. I GIVE. FOR ME, I DECIDED TO BE A WRITER AND THAT PROBABLY MEANS OUR VISION: THAT I WON’T HAVE A HOUSE, I WON’T HAVE A CAR, BUT ON THE ARTS MY DEATHBED I KNOW I WILL HAVE FULFILLED MY LIFE’S ARE RECOGNISED AS INTEGRAL TO A PURPOSE. IT’S AMAZING TO KNOW YOU PEOPLE ARE OUT THRIVING NZ THERE – IT’S LIKE KNOWING FAIRIES EXIST!” OUR PURPOSE: WE BOOST OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS AND AMPLIFY THEIR IMPACT OUR CONVICTIONS: ASPIRATION — CONNECTEDNESS COURAGE — RECIPROCITY — FOR AOTEAROA OUR STRATEGIC PLILLARS: Poet, Tusiata Avia MNZM, 2020 Laureate, BUILD A ESTABLISH SHOW THE IMPACT RE-ENGINEER addressing Arts Foundation Kotahi members SUSTAINABLE A NEW OF WHAT WE FUND GOVERNANCE REVENUE AND PARTNERSHIP AND THE IMPACT OF AND when receiving the Theresa Gattung Award for a FUNDING BASE MODEL ARTISTS OPERATIONS female practitioner this September. P.04 P.05 THE ARTS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 19/20 WHAT. A. YEAR. A NOTE FROM OUR CHAIR. On behalf of the Arts Foundation trustees 5. In just three weeks built a $100,000 While Covid-19 disrupted our first full year, goal. This has been a very difficult year but I it’s a pleasure to report that our first year of Arts Foundation Future Fund in response it did not define it. We saw it as an opportunity feel, in no small part due to the guidance and delivering the Arts Foundation’s 2019-2022 to the first Covid-19 level 4 lockdown to be creative and to provide support for the governance provided, the Arts Foundation Te Evolution Strategy has had significant impact. and gifted one hundred artists and arts arts community we value so much. It did halt Tumu Toi is perfectly poised to thrive in 2021 Featuring a new team, we have created a organisations with a $1,000 match gift to some commercial partnerships, and countless and onwards. refreshed programme aimed at broadening the encourage them to keep making work in fundraising events, but it also created new May I take this opportunity to thank Arts Foundation’s supporter base. Our giving very uncertain times. And, in just three opportunities like creating Boosted LIVE. We some retiring trustees. Peter Biggs and Aimee community’s efforts have enabled artists to months starting in level 4 lockdown, are delighted to report that at the time of McCammon both Wellington based trustees, keep making, and to be recognised for their we raised $1 million for artists on writing this, there are 168 Kotahi members retired late in 2019 after the end of six year courageous path, at a time when Aotearoa New Boosted (this is more than our usual (including our Lifetime givers) fuelling the Arts terms, and we are about to farewell Neil Zealand needs them most. Thank you. annual budget). Foundation’s mission and growing momentum Plimmer (Wellington) and Caroline Hutchison Impact on artists has been seen in many 6. Re-launched a new Boosted crowd- around the impact artists have on this country. (Queenstown) who have been with us for nine places where the Arts Foundation has: funding platform thanks to the Parkin I want to acknowledge Jo Blair, Hannah years each. We cannot thank them enough for 1. Given out $1 million more to artists than Gift, and introduced Boosted LIVE thanks Wilson and the wonderful team at Brown Bread. their contribution to New Zealand and the arts. the year before. to the help of Creative New Zealand. When we engaged Brown Bread to deliver our We wish them well and acknowledge their very 2. Awarded ten Arts Foundation Laureates 7. Shone the spotlight on the arts during core services, many of our supporters were significant contributions. Here’s to 2021! $25,000 each. the inaugural Arts Month in September nervous. It represented a very significant 3. Gained unprecedented media coverage 2019, a month where we asked New change in direction and we understood the to let the country know the contribution Zealanders to tell us what the arts apprehension. I cannot speak highly enough our artists are making. means to them. We had 300,000 digital of the team’s resilience, drive and passion 4. Introduced a new awards programme interactions with the campaign, and over through 2020. During the tumultuous year that to help nurture six creative careers. one million people saw it. has been, plans have had to change, change Springboard saw artists awarded a 8. We funded four new Laureates for ten again and then again and again! It has been $15,000 gift and were provided with a year commitments thanks to Theresa inspirational working with them. paid mentor from our Arts Foundation Gattung, Adrian Burr, My Art (Glenn and Finally, a word about the trustees. alumni to guide them at the formative Sonja Hawkins) and Sir Roger Hall (the They are a hard-working, dedicated and Garth Gallaway stages of their careers. latter, every second year). conscientious group of people with a common Chair P.06 P.07 THE ARTS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 19/20 JULY 2019 HOW DID IN NUMBERS. WE DO? JUNE 2020 P.08 P.09 THE ARTS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 19/20 "WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE, STRATEGIC PILLAR 1: REVENUE. REVENUE HANDED DOWN FROM BOTH MY LINEAGE AND CULTURAL Build a sustainable revenue and funding base so that UNDERSTANDING OF SUPPORTING by 2022 the Arts Foundation has a strong base of regular CREATIVES, HAVE ALLOWED ME TO funders over three years. NAVIGATE MUTUAL RESPECT AND BE PART OF A SOUND PLATFORM, GIVING VOICE WITHIN THE FAMILY OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION TE TUMU TOI.