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Table of Contents
Introduction
fACT guides series.
The aim of this fACT guide
Access to the records
Citing the records
Indexes and finding aids
Policies
The Commonwealth
Aboriginal art
The ACT Government
Commissioned works
Schools
Public libraries
Hospitals & health centres
Government buildings, courts & police stations
Town centres, Group centres & Local centres
Open public places
Street art
Paintings
Prizes, awards & grants
Australia 75 – Festival of Creative Arts and Sciences
National Sculpture Award – Canberra Festival
Gorman House Sculpture Competition
ACT Heritage Award
Grants
Donations
Taxation incentives for the arts
Donations to the City of Canberra

Exhibitions
Taikichi Irie
Maintenance
Plaques, memorials and time capsules
Publications
Monographs and pamphlets
Information Management – Control – Registers
National Capital Development Commission
Index

Chapter
1
Introduction
fACT guides series.
t
 his fACT (finding ACT) guide is the first of a series of research aids that enable locating of records in the ACT Government that are available for public access under the Territory Records Act 2002. These records are those older than 20 years. Territory records younger than 20 years are available to the public through freedom of information. The fACT guides include records in any format relevant to the subject, but not necessarily all of the records. There are various reasons why records may not be listed in the fACT guide. ACT Government agencies are able to create records under any function for which there is an authorised records disposal schedule, so the function of Arts and Cultural Development may be performed by various agencies at different times during the history of the ACT. Agencies are responsible for the care of records in their custody, and as there is no centralised archive many agencies’ recordkeeping systems have to be interrogated to locate records dealing with a particular topic. The ACT was given Self-government in 1989, so records made before then were made by a variety of Commonwealth Government agencies. Many of these are available to the public through the National Archives of Australia and their online database RecordSearch. The fACT guide series is intended to make locating records easier for people by highlighting the repositories that hold the records.
Exclusions Material listed in this guide is primary material made by government agencies. It does not list published works. Items of this nature about public art in the ACT can be found on library catalogues, such as the National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au/ or the ACT Public Library, http://www.library.act.gov.au/. Much of the public art in the ACT belongs to the Commonwealth, for instance, Sir Bertram Mackenna's War (or Bellona) now at the Australian War Memorial, which for many years was on Commonwealth Avenue near the Albert Hall. http://www.awm.gov.au/virtualtour/bellona.htm. Information about Commonwealth records can be found at http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch.aspx.
Control records Government agencies make control records to help in the identification, tacking and retrieval of records. These are registry tools such as file registers, subject indexes, alphabetical functional thesauri and other finding aids. These are listed, along with the recordkeeping systems they are associated with, to helping listing which agency has which records and where the records can be accessed.
The aim of this fACT guide
The aim of this finding aid is to make records relating to public art in the ownership of the ACT Government accessible to researchers interested in artworks in public places. 
Access to the records
Records older than 20 years are available to be used by the public under the Territory Records Act 2002. To organise access to the records that are open to the public, contact the ACT Government Reference Archivist.. For those records younger than 20 years access is through the Freedom of Information Act 1989. Some classes of records older than 20 years may be closed to the public by application of certain sections of the Freedom of Information Act 1989. 
Citing the records
When you reproduce or refer to an ACT Government record, whether or not it is retained as a Territory Archive, in a publication, paper or personal research, you should cite it accurately. This will help other researchers and yourself to locate it in the future.
A record citation is different from a reference to a book publication or journal article. Records are maintained in the order in which they were created and kept. 
Legacy records from the Commonwealth are named differently to those created by the ACT Government since the Territory Records Act 2002. An individual record item is catalogued as part of a record series that was created and maintained by an agency in the conduct of its business, reflecting its recordkeeping systems at the time. The record series number is not on the record itself, it must be obtained from RecordSearch or from the ACT reference archivist.
The method of citation described here is the similar to the method suggested by the National Archives of Australia for citing Commonwealth records. The citation formula makes a very brief citation for Commonwealth records, for example in footnotes:
 National Archives of Australia: A8844, volume 1. 
In a full bibliography the expanded citation formula is:
National Archives of Australia: National Capital Development Commission; A8844, Minutes of Sculpture Committee meetings - SC1 to SC39 September 1966 to December 1970; volume 1
The Territory citations give the same information as the expanded citation to the subsequent researcher for example:
Chief Minister’s Department. National Capital Development Commission. 76/122 Sculpture and artworks in ACT policies and practices prior to 1982
Record descriptions
In this guide, record descriptions cater for the legacy records received from the Commonwealth as well those made under the Territory Records Act 2002.
National Sports Stadium Centre – Bruce – Forward planting 74/290 
National Capital Development Commission.
ACT Department of Economic Development.
Quantity: 1 file This item contains plans depicting the landscaping to be used around the National Sports area in Belconnen.  1974-1976

Key
•	Title given to the record by the creating agency. Also included is the reference number of the file. The two digit number before the slash indicates the last two digits of the year, i.e. 1974 is abbreviated as 74, 2004 is abbreviated as 04. 
•	Creating agency or person who made the file.
•	Controlling agency
•	The number of files, photographs or other records included in the title are listed.
•	A brief description of the contents, highlighting key items, and not necessarily listing all the material. The date range of the contents is given.
Indexes and finding aids
There are various indexes to the NCDC records:
Commonwealth Records Series  A1341. Registration and movement cards for CRS A1340, correspondence files, annual single number series. Agency controlling ACT Government.
Commonwealth Records Series  A1342. Subject index cards for CRS A1340, correspondence files, annual single number series. Agency controlling ACT Government
Commonwealth Records Series A1343, Name index cards ('Personal Index') for CRS A1340, Correspondence files, annual single number series. Agency controlling National Capital Authority
Commonwealth  Records Series A1344. Inwards correspondence register. National Capital Development Commission. Agency controlling National Capital Authority.
The National Archives of Australia produces fact sheets, some of which are pertinent to finding records in the ACT. These include:
Administration in the ACT; No. 35
Design and development of the National Capital, No. 60

Arts & Cultural Development - Policy
Chapter
2
Policies 
The Commonwealth
P

ublic art in the ACT was controlled by the Commonwealth until self-government. Various Commonwealth agencies administered the ACT including the National Capital Development Commission established in 1957 and abolished in 1989. The NCDC introduced various policies regarding public art in the ACT and established the Artworks Committee and subsequently various sub-committees including the Sculpture sub-committee. By 1974 the NCDC was insisting on a new policy of providing a greater range of artworks in public places by the project directors and artworks policy and interim school boards. These arose from a submission from Mr Clough to the Commission after consideration of the procedures and policy for the Sculpture Committee. He recommended that the stated objectives for the provision of works of art be endorsed, a review be undertaken into the Commission’s performance in the provision of works of art and the procedures be reviewed in light of the findings. In 1978 the Artworks Committee recommended the Siting of Memorials Policy.  

Extract is below:
OBJECTIVE
To provide sites for memorials which will be appropriate to the individual, group or event commemorated.
POLICY STATEMENT
A. PUBLIC MEMORIALS
1. Parliamentary Triangle and Capital Hill  - 
Reserved for national memorials authorised by Parliament or the Government commemorating persons or events of National significance.
2. Anzac Parade – Reserved for Service memorials of a national character authorised by the Government commemorating a branch or important arm of the Services.
3. Barton, Forrest, Deakin and Yarralumla – Reserved for civil memorials authorised by the National Memorials Committee commemorating persons or events of national significance.
4. Lakeside Parklands – Reserved for civil memorials authorised by the National Memorials Committee commemorating persons or events of national significance.
5. Russell, Campbell Park, Mt Pleasant – Reserved for service memorials authorised by the National Memorials Committee commemorating persons or events of national significance.
6. City and Town Centres – Reserved for civil memorials authorised by the National Memorials Committee commemorating persons or events of local significance.
7. Other Urban Areas, Rural Areas and Hill Reserves -  Reserved for memorials authorised by the National Memorials Committee commemorating persons or events associated with the particular sites.
B.PRIVATE MEMORIALS
8. Leased Sites – Private memorials authorised by the Department of the Capital Territory and passed for design and siting by the National Capital Development Commission commemorating persons or events associated with the purpose of the lease.
It wasn’t until1974 that the Fine art and Sculpture Committee agreed that a plaque should be installed with every artwork at the time of its installation.
By 1987 the NCDC policy on the placement and display of works of art in association with Commission constructed buildings, also in urban and park type settings, could be stated as:
A	TO ENSURE THAT WORKS OF ART:
	(1) FORM PART OF THE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF CANBERRA SO THAT THEY CONTRIBUTE TO ITS SYMBOLIC ROLE AS THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AND TO IS FUNCTIONS AS A CITY
(2) CONTRIBUTE TO THE CHARACTER, STYLE AND AESTHETIC IDENTITY OF THE LANDSCAPE, URBAN SPACES AND BUILDINGS OF THE CITY
(3)    CONTRIBUTE TO THE QUALITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT TO MEET THE AESTHETIC NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
B.	TO ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC’S APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF WORKS OF ART
C.	TO COMMEMORATE THE SERVICES TO THE NATION OF INDIVUALS OR GROUPS
D	TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF ARTWORKS BY RECOGNISED AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS, SELECTED YOUNG AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS, AND SELECTED OVERSEAS ARTISTS.
THE COMMISSION WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE ARTWORKS WHICH ARE OF A PERMANENT NATURE AND ARE INTEGRAL TO THE STRUCTURE OF A PLANCE, A LANDSCAPED AREA, OR A PUBLIC BUILDING.  HOWEVER THE SELECTION OF LOCATIONS FOR ARTWORKS WILL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RANGE OF CRITERIA CONDUCIVE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMISSION’S POLICY
IN THESE TERMS THE CRITERIA FOR LOCATION OF ARTWORKS WILL INCLUDE:
A.	THE DESIRE TO OBTAIN MAXIMUM EXPOSURE OF AN ARTWORK TO THE LARGEST NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. IN THIS CONTEXT, COMMUNITY BUILDINGS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS HAVE OBVIOUS ADVANTAGES
B.	NATIONAL BUILDINGS LEND THEMSELVES AS SETTINGS FOR ARTWORKS THERE IS ENHANCEMENT OF THE BUILDING ITSELF AND THUS OF CANBERRA AS THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
C.	MOVEMENT ROUTES THROUGH OUT THE CITY ARE NATURAL VENUES FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF ARTWORK.  SUCH LOCATIONS PROVIDE NATURALLY FOR COMMUNITY INTEREST IN THE ARTWORK, BUT ALSO OFFER OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A SATISFYING ENVIRONMENT INVOLVING THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITY ITSELF.
D.	LARGE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS WITH THEIR VOLUME OF MOVEMENT WILL BE LIKELY TO ATTRACT ARTWORKS.
E.	SPECIAL PURPOSE BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HEALTH FACILITIES CAN BE IDEAL LOCATIONS FOR PARTICULAR ARTWORKS WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL IN ESTABLISHING A DESIRABLE ATMOSPHERE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY USING THE FACILITY.

A major policy included artworks in schools. Cost allowances for sculpture in schools were set. Extension of the program to existing and future schools was discussed.There was liaison with the Commonwealth Department of Education & Science and the Department of Interior especially on innovative artworks such as play sculptures. The works transferred to the Territory on self-government include those in schools.  
On self-government in 1989 responsibility for public artworks was split between the Commonwealth and the Territory governments and some of the public art was transferred to the ACT and other works kept by the Commonwealth and known as National works of art. 
Aboriginal art
The NCDC sought help in the acquisition of aboriginal art, and works from Maori, other Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea. A New Hebridean but installed in Fisher Primary School was acquired for Holder Primary School and aboriginal paintings for Weston Creek High School and Rivett Primary School.
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Clyde Holding with the Minister for Administrative Services brought up the use of Aboriginal artworks in 1983, although policies on aboriginal works of art existed before that. The later policy was to include Aboriginal art where feasible, but because of its fragile nature was more suitable for internal placement. The ACT Government policy on acknowledging traditional ownership was enunciated and public artwork initiated. The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Council commissioned John Johnson to produce a work in 1994. The artist donated his work Connections; harshness and beauty; past, present, future to the Legislative Assembly during National Aboriginal & Islander Day Observation Committee week 1996. The triptych represents aboriginality in the Canberra region, past, present and future. The work is synthetic polymer paint on canvas, with corrugated iron, wire, cockatoo and gang-gang feathers, paperbark, woollen thread, twine and blood.
The ACT Government
ACT Government policies on public art were in development in 1993 and defined in 1995 the Public Art program included Floriade.  The ACT Government established the Public Art Consultative Committee which held its first meeting on 1 March 1996. The Public Art Program developed from a pre-election commitment to encourage the adoption of a target of 0.25% of the building budget of major public buildings and private community developments for the provision of public art and aesthetic facilities.
The terms of reference of the Public Art Consultative Committee were:
The ACT Public Art Consultative Committee will provide advise on the following:
- the establishment of a Public Art Program in the ACT, to apply initially to public buildings and spaces
- the selection and implementation of strategic projects, including the development of project management procedures in collaboration with the appropriate sponsoring body
- the development of Program guidelines to be endorsed by the Minister for Arts and Heritage in consultation with the Minister for Urban Services
- the potential for collaborative projects with other organisations such as the National Capital Planning Authority, Canberra Institute for the Arts and the private sector, to advance the Public Art Program
- the research and development of incentives to encourage further private sector initiatives in this area
- the longer term operation of a Public Art Program in the ACT  
The Legislative Assembly established an Art Advisory Committee. The Terms of Reference for the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee were to:
Advise the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on:
•	Establishing and implementing guidelines for the development and management of the Legislative Assembly’s Art Program/Collection
•	The purchase/commissioning and display of works of art for the Legislative Assembly building;
•	Other issues that relate to the Legislative Assembly’s temporary or permanent works of art and public exhibition areas
Arts & Cultural Development - Acquisition 
Chapter
3
Commissioned works
Schools
T
The Sculpture sub-committee of the NCDC had a policy of including works of art in all schools, including primary, secondary and the technical college through the architects’ briefs. The first such work was the murals on either side of the entrance hall to Lyneham High School in 1960. The schools included primary and high schools as well as the Canberra Technical College, The Canberra Technical College at Bruce, the Canberra School of Musicand Malkara School with a ceramic mural by Hatton and Lucy Beck installed in 1972. In 1967 art works were already provided at South Curtin Primary, Downer Primary and Watson High. Action was in had to provide pieces at Lyons Primary (Dreaming girl) and Woden Valley High (a tiled mural by John Olson) however by October 1967 the artist was Tom Sanders. Discussions were held by the Sculpture sub-committee on the suitability of various works of art for particular schools. The siting proposal for the Observer for Campbell High, the suggested artwork for Canberra High, the security of artworks in schools, e.g. Lunar aspiration at Deakin High School, the transfer of the Derek Wrigley play sculpture from Higgins to Cook Primary School and the continuing discussion on David Tolley’s Play sculpture are examples. The Sculpture sub-committee “agreed that it would be inappropriate to involve the Department [of Education and Science] in aesthetic judgements, noting that the Department’s views on aspects of maintenance and protection of art work in schools are taken into account when examining proposals” and thus maintained control over public art. The headmaster at Farrer Primary School “expressed enthusiastic acceptance” of the Derek Wrigley play sculpture installed there. The Department of Works actually placed the artworks on site. Mr Miller submitted a “comprehensive and useful report” on siting possibilities at existing Commission-built schools and possible suitable types of works of art. The forward projects in the 1985/85 design programme which were most likely to have an artwork associated with them included Belconnen College and Tuggeranong College.  
In 1986, the Department of Housing and Construction and the Australia Council jointly worked on producing a booklet on artworks in Commonwealth projects. The Department’s list included a weaving by A.R. Armstrong in Taylor Primary School and a painting by Rolf Harris in Chapman Primary School.
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	67/490 Chifley Primary School Sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	68/173 Chifley Primary School ceramic panel by Leonard French (now in Scullin Primary)	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	68/907 Aranda Primary School (Belconnen 6) artwork	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	69/189 Curtin, South sculpture 	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	70/1085 Cook (Belconnen no. 7) sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	70/115 Weston Primary School glazed wall (sculpture)	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	70/116 Torrens Primary School sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	70/117 Aranda Primary School (Belconnen 6) sculptures	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	70/118 Farrer Primary School sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	71/107 parts 1,2&3 Sculpture provision of minor pieces for schools	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	71/1488 Latham Primary School – art works	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	71/1559   Sculpture acquisition programme for schools	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	71/815 Sculpture by (A) Stephen Walker (B) Inge King – Campbell High School	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/119   Melrose High School sculpture R.Kippel	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/141 Higgins Primary school – arts: sculptures	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/130 Latham Primary School 	
National Capital Development Commission. Department of Education and Training.	72/1736   Sculpture David Wilson	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/1820   New Hebridean sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/245 Page Primary school – arts: sculptures	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/589 parts 1&2 Canberra School of Music City028 sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	72/671 Artworks - Holder	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	73/263 Aboriginal paintings – Weston Creek High School and Rivett Primary School	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	73/642   Gleeson J.T. engagement as consultant on sculpture for schools	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	73/650   Narrabundah School sculpture	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	73/834 Flynn Primary School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	73/975   Play sculpture David Tolley	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	73/1749 Ginninderra High School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/1108 Art works for the Forrest Primary School	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/346 Weetangera Primary School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/349 Duffy Primary School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/791 Chapman Primary School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/792 Wanniassa Primary School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/793 Charnwood Primary School: artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/794 Fisher Primary School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	74/852 Holt Primary School – art work	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	75/136 Wanniassa College – Activity Centre artwork	
National Capital Development Commission.	74/950 Canberra Technical College - Bruce	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	75/138 Holder High School artworks	
Department of Education and Training. National Capital Development Commission.	76/266 Hawker College - artworks	
Department of Education and Training Department of Education and Science	76/2695 Sculpture in ACT schools	

Photographs of examples of artists’ works were kept by the NCDC. The artists included :
Alexander,	Gordon	King,	Inge	
Bartlett,	Geoffrey	Klippel,	 Robert	
Clark,	Marc	Langley,	Warren	
Baker,	Jeannie	Meszaros,	Michael	
Beck,	Lawrence	Parker,	Reg	
Dorrough,	Heather	Pryor,	Anthony	
Gray,	Noel	Santry,	Michael	

Public libraries
Tehichgahara Sofu donated the freestanding statue Hinoki in 1967. It was installed in the Woden District Library in 1977. However, it was relocated to West Block in 1984. The relocation was dependent on agreement being reached on a replacement wall hanging. The wall hanging “may take the form of a fabric collage, as opposed to a woven hanging with a possible subject being the landmarks, buildings and characters of significance to the Woden Valley prior to its development in the 1960s. The National Capital Development Commission supported the ACT Crafts Council in their application for an Australian Bicentenary Authority grant to commission a mural for the Belconnen Library. The work is Horizon 1, a ceramic mosaic created by Sally Cleary. Mr John Langmore, Member for Fraser on Friday 29 January 1988, unveiled it.
Kippax Library was allocated the sculpture Quietly held 
Hospitals & health centres
In 1986, the Department of Housing and Construction and the Australia Council jointly worked on producing a booklet on artworks in Commonwealth projects. The Department’s list included:
•	Calvary Hospital had two artworks by G. Jenkins & Assoc., a stained glass window costing $13400 and tiled murals costing $17020. 
•	Weston Creek Health Centre had a bronze sculpture of geese by Gabriel Sterk installed in 1978. 
•	Woden Valley Hospital had the fabricated aluminium sculpture by Jock Clutterbuck which was installed in 1974.
•	Kambah Health Centre has the sculpture Flowers in the courtyard.
Government buildings, courts & police stations
The ACT Magistrates Court and Tuggeranong Police Station had works of art commissioned during the design phase. The architects who redesigned the South Building for the Legislative Assembly included public art for the foyer. The chosen work by Klaus Moje is a fused glass panel. The Barbara Hepworth sculpture was initially set up temporarily for 3 years in the entrance of the Canberra Theatre Centre.A Painting by Mr R. Johnson was recommended for acquisition for the Torrens Community Centre, or a building of similar nature in 1971.
Town centres, Group centres & Local centres
Each of the town centres, group centres and local centres has at least one work of art. The artworks vary and include history plaques of the suburb (Curtin, Chifley, Mawson), feature walls (Kingston), rural themes (Kambah sheep, Belconnen farm machinery) wild life themes (East Tuggeranong Lake eagle on pole), pergolas (Narrabundah), statues (Sculpture by Margel Hinder in Woden Town Centre). There were difficulties in determining a sculpture for City Plaza. This practice and policy began with the NCDC and continues with the ACT Government. 

As centres are refurbished new artworks are installed, for instance O’Connor, Narrabundah, Hughes, Tuggeranong, Kippax, Manuka and Civic.
Open public places
Public art is also placed in parks as well as internally in buildings.

Figure 1 Woden Bus Interchange street art in progress 1994.
Street art
The ACT Government has tried to curtail random graffiti, by making legal community art and street art sites. ACTION bus shelters and the Snake Pit at Woden Bus Interchange, among other walls were decorated using community groups.  As part of the 2002 National Youth Week events the external walls of the Belconnen Basketball Centre were painted by street artists. 
Paintings
The NCDC commissioned paintings of scenes of features around Canberra to capture a record of the area before too much development occurred and during development The painters included Geoff Rigby, Douglas Dundas and Brian Dunlop. 
In 1973 the Commission had:
•	six oil paintings by Douglas Dundas executed prior to the building of the lake; 
•	an oil painting of the site of Belconnen Town Centre by David Strachan; 
•	five guache paintings of Tuggeranong by Brian Dunlop; 
•	a series of watercolours by Mr Eldershaw; 
•	a drawing of St John’s Church by Kenneth Jack; 
•	a drawing of the Tuggeranong Valley from Mt Taylor by Roger Johnson; 
•	three small drawings of buildings in Belconnen by Ray Beattyman.

The NCDC had in the past other paintings that had been passed to the Archival collection of the Department of Capital Territory and to the Cities Commission..
Chapter
4
Prizes, awards & grants
Australia 75 – Festival of Creative Arts and Sciences
The Visual Arts Sub-Committee of Australia 75 organised the Young Australian Sculptors exhibition in the Commonwealth Gardens. Thirty-one sculptors were represented Of those exhibiting the following sculptors subsequently had works acquired that now belong to the Territory, including Russell Browne with Sentinel III. Sentinel I was acquired by the NCDC and placed in the Alinga Street Boulevard in 1976. Vlase Nikoleski exhibited Détente and Untitled. Subsequently Mr & Mrs H.J. Wilkinson with the assistance of the Visual Arts Board acquired Fountain and it was installed at the then Sisters of Mercy Hospital (now Calvary Hospital) in Bruce in 1979. Robert Parr exhibited Flowers. Red Flowers was acquired by the NCDC and installed in the Kambah Health Centre courtyard in 1977. Ron Robertson-Swann exhibited Quietly wild, it was acquired for Hawker College and installed in 1977.
Ross Hohnen was chairman of the Canberra Theatre Trust 1971-1977. His papers are in the National Library of Australia and include Australia 75 minutes of Board of Governors and subcommittees, 1973-75.
National Sculpture Award – Canberra Festival
In 1984 Ellen Blunden, Director of Canberra Festival Incorporated, formally mooted the setting up of an annual award for sculpture with the Canberra Festival as the co-ordinating body. In 1985 the National Capital Development Commission was working with the Festival to institute the annual acquisition award.
Gorman House Sculpture Competition
The National Capital Development Commission provided $10,000 for provision of a sculpture for the Gorman House Community Arts Centre.
ACT Heritage Award
The ACT Heritage Award is a statuette of Ethos.
Grants
Grant schemes for arts funding are a feature of the public art process. The A.C.T. Arts Development Board administered the grant process and a review was held in 1985. The Department of Capital Territory had a community arts programme.

Arts & Cultural Development - Donations
Chapter
5
Donations
Taxation incentives for the arts
The Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme commenced in 1978 to encourage gifts of culturally significant items to Australian public art galleries, libraries and museums by enabling income taxation deductions. The Department Home Affairs and the Environment administered the Tax incentives for the Arts scheme and recognised the Department of Capital Territory as recipient of artworks under this scheme. The Department of Capital Territory nominated the Nolan Gallery as a recipient.  Because of this nomination, the Secretary of the Department of the Capital Territory Tony Blunn and Ron Beaver of Beaver Galleries held discussions on the possibility of a sculpture garden at the Nolan Gallery at Lanyon. However, despite the possibility of three works of John Robinson’s being in Canberra, Mortality, Transcend and Eternity; Mortality ended up being part of the Mildura Arts Centre Gallery sculpture garden; Eternity is in Petrie Plaza; and Transcend “may be accepted by the ANU – negotiations have commenced” However the Collections Officer of the ANU Art Collection states that, although the Collection has two paintings, it does not have any other artworks by John Robinson. 
Figure 2 Photograph of proposed site of Mortality, with Mortality superimposed on the Darwin Place site, viewed from London Circuit. Folio 33. Chief Minister's Department. National Capital Development Commission. 82/730 Mortality sculpture by John Robinson
Donations to the City of Canberra
Sir Warwick Fairfax, chairman of John Fairfax Ltd, announced a gift from the Federal Capital Times, to the City of Canberra in 1976. It is a sculpture in stainless steel and water, lit from below at night designed by Robert Woodward, known as the Canberra Times Fountain and was placed in Ainslie Avenue between Petrie Plaza and Civic Square.
The Reserve Bank of Australia presented the bronze statue, known as either Dreaming or Woman in Thought in 1973. 
The Downer family of Adelaide presented the Father and Son bronze fountain figures to the City of Canberra in 1964. It is part of the memorial to Sir John Downer, one of the founders of the Australian Federation, Premier of South Australia and appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1878.
Over the years various memorials were donated to the Royal Canberra Hospital by staff and patients. These include a stained glass window in the quiet room in memory of Sister Dorothy (Meredith) Bryan, Carmel Smith memorial, Mona Tait and May Hayman plaque in the foyer and the Peter Blaxland Operating Suite plaque.
It appears that the plaque went to the University of Canberra, because the University Council noted that the Vice-Chancellor had unveiled a plaque, donated by the RSL as trustee, in the School of Nursing honouring the memory of two Australian nurses killed during World War 11, Mona Tait and May Hayman.
Certain gifts to the City of Canberra are housed in the Legislative Assembly. Some of these were donated following exhibitions, such as the photographs of Taikichi Irie.

Arts & Cultural Development - Exhibitions
Chapter
6
Exhibitions
Taikichi Irie
As part of the sister city relationship with Nara, the Mayor of Nara offered an exhibition of the works of the Japanese photographer Taikichi Irie to coincide with his visit in 1997 was arranged.  In association with the exhibition was an extension program. This exhibition led to the donation of 30 photographs from the exhibition. The Belconnen Library exhibited the photographs during the Multicultural Festival in January 1998.

Figure 3 Irie, Taikichi. Photograph of Statue of Basara Taisho, taken December 1976. Original is a gift of the Nara City Council 1997. Owned by the Legislative Assembly.

Property management - Maintenance
Chapter
7
Maintenance

Care and maintenance of public artworks is an ongoing concern. The Department of Territories undertook an extensive review of the “numerous memorials and sculptures in its care with a view to developing a program for regular maintenance of these items.”  Maintenance of particular artworks caused concern. Contracts were let for general maintenance of public artworks, including fountains and memorials.  This occurred by both the Commonwealth and ACT Governments. During the preparation for ACT Self-Government discussions were held on the cleaning and maintenance of various works. Cleaning of Stepping Out (Hughes Shops), Site Marker (Narrabundah Shops and O’Connor Shops), We are fishes (Lake Tuggeranong), Queen Elizabeth II Family Centre, Serpent and mosaics (Curtin), the Fourth Pillar (ACT Magistrate’s Court), Fire Line (Civic Square) was part of an ongoing program.  The removal and reinstatement of public art did not occur often, but the same care was expected as at the time of installation, e.g. Ethos  or Inge King’s  sculpture Observer.
Some of the works were inspected and assessed for maintenance, eg the water feature at Woden Town Square.
Chapter
8
Plaques, memorials and time capsules
Strictly speaking, plaques and memorials are not included in artworks, unless there is some artistic input, beyond the design of the plaque e.g. the suburb name plaques at Chifley, that contain a portrait of the person after whom the suburb is named. The ACT Veterans’ Memorial is included. So the Phillips Family memorial plaque at Sherwood Historic Site, the John Knight Memorial Park, and the Bushfire Memorial are not included as artwork. There is a time capsule in the base of Ethos, however in 1996, it was not known exactly where.
Publication
Chapter
9
Publications
Monographs and pamphlets
The National Capital Development Commission produced two volumes illustrating the public art acquired by the NCDC. There were also pamphlets printed that listed public art in various accessible places. 
The ACT Government’s Public Art Program began in 1995. For information on that program see the public art website at http://www.arts.act.gov.au/pages/page9.asp. There is also a Civic Public Art Walking brochure, available at http://www.arts.act.gov.au/pages/images/Civic%20Public%20Art%20Walking%20Tour.pdf.

Information Management

Chapter
10
Information Management – Control – Registers
National Capital Development Commission
A catalogue of artworks was maintained as well as a register of sculptorsand an inventory of models. The status and location of the record of artworks seemed to be uncertain in 1974.
Index

A
A.C.T. Arts Development Board 12, 25
access, 4, 5
Artworks Committee, 9
Australian War Memorial, 4
C
Canberra School of Music 16
Canberra Technical College:, 16
Control records, 4
controlling agency, 5, 6
E
Exclusion, 4
F
file registers, 4
Freedom of Information Act 1989, 5
functional thesauri, 4
functional thesaurus, 6
G
grant schemes 12, 25
L
legacy records, 6
N
National Archives of Australia, 4, 5
National Capital Development Commission, 9
P
Public Art Consultative Committee, 13, 14
published works, 4
R
RecordSearch 4, 5

S
School
Campbell High, 16
Canberra Technical College, 16
Deakin High School, 16
Downer Primary, 16
Lyneham High School, 16
Lyons Primary, 16
South Curtin Primary, 16
Watson High, 16
Woden Valley High, 16
sculpture, 12
Sculpture sub-committee, 16
self-government, 4, 9, 12
series numbering system, 6
Siting of Memorials Policy, 9
subject indexes, 4
T
Territory Archive, 5
Territory Records Act 2002, 5, 6