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South Australian Ruby Awards

South Australian Ruby Awards

Australian art award

The South Australian Ruby Awards, also known as the Ruby Awards, are annual awards which recognise outstanding achievement in South Australia’s arts and culture sector. They were named in honour of arts champion Dame Ruby Litchfield (1912–2001) DBE.

History and description

The Ruby Awards were introduced in 2006 by the Government of South Australia,[1] named in honour of the late arts patron Dame Ruby Litchfield.[2][3] She was the first woman appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, a founder member of Festival City Broadcasters, and a board member of numerous other organisations, including the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the South Australian Housing Trust and the Carclew Youth Performing Arts Centre.[4]

The Awards were managed by Arts South Australia (formerly Arts SA) until 2018, when they were transferred to the Arts and Culture unit within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.[5]

Since the year of inception, they have grown in number from eight to twelve.

Winners

2006–2009

Winners
2006 2007 2008 2009
Best Work or Event Honk If You Are Jesus, State Theatre Company South Australia Ikara – The Meeting Place, Tony Rosella, sculptor When the Rain Stops Falling, Brink Productions 2008 OzAsia Festival
Community Impact (Under $100,000) SALA Festival

(2006 Award program included one single award for Community Impact regardless of budget)

South Australian History Week OzAsia Moon Lantern Festival Seniors on Screen, Media Resource Centre
Community Impact (Over $100,000) Bundaleer Forest Weekend 2007 Feast Festival Port Augusta Re-Imagines
Innovation Devolution, Australian Dance Theatre Electro Acoustic Project, Zephyr Quartet Trouble on Planet Earth, The Border Project 3xperimentia: Live Cut
Leadership in Arts Enterprise Special projects under development, Craig Andrae Fringe Benefits Adelaide Festival Centre – Scenery and Engineering Workshops The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy 2009 World Tour, Slingsby
Sustained Contribution by an Organisation JamFactory Craft and Design State Theatre Company South Australia Adelaide Repertory Theatre Patch Theatre Company
Sustained Contribution by an Individual N/A Leigh Warren Timothy Sexton Jane Hylton
Premier's Award for Lifetime Achievement Frank Ford AM Anthony Steel AM Kym Bonython AO DFC AFC Fiona Hall

2010–2013

The Geoff Crowhurst Memorial Award was introduced in honour of actor and director Geoff Crowhurst (23 March 1951 – 4 July 2009).

More information Winners 2010 – 2013 ...

2014–2017

More information Winners 2014 – 2017 ...

2018–present

The 2018 South Australian Ruby Award significantly reshaped the award categories, including individual categories names in honour of the late Kaurna elder Stephen Goldsmith (the Stevie Gadlabarti Goldsmith Memorial Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artistic and cultural achievement) and local arts icon Frank Ford (the Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Award), both of whom who died in the same year.[11][12]

The Awards were held at the Queen's Theatre, Adelaide and the judging panel included eight key industry figures, including Heather Croall, Gavin Wanganeen and media personality Jane Doyle.[13]

2018 Finalists (Winners in bold)[14][15][13]
Best Festival
Best Work or Event Within a Festival
  • Hamlet – Adelaide Festival and Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Adelaide Festival 2018)
  • In the Club – State Theatre Company South Australia (Adelaide Festival 2018)
  • Waqt al-tagheer: Time of Change – ACE Open (Adelaide Festival 2018)
  • Place des Anges – WOMADelaide and Gratte Ciel (Adelaide Festival 2018)
Best Work or Event Outside a Festival
  • Beep – Windmill Theatre Co
  • Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay – Art Gallery of South Australia
  • Impersonal Space – Company AT and Tutti Arts
  • On the Terrace – Chamber Music Adelaide
Best Work, Event or Project for Young People
  • AREA 53 – D'Faces of Youth Arts Inc.
  • Beep – Windmill Theatre Co
  • Neo – Art Gallery of South Australia
  • Ngarrindjeri Yanun (Aboriginal Artist Development Initiative) – Carclew Youth Arts
Best Regional or Community Event or Project
  • AREA 53 – D'Faces of Youth Arts Inc.
  • Collectors/Collections: Waikerie Films – Waikerie District Historical Society and OSCA – Open Space Contemporary Arts
  • Mi:Wi 3027 – Country Arts SA
  • SCC Fringe 2018 – Art Engineers (Julianne Pierce), Ashley Sierp and Southern Cross Care
Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation or Group
Made in Adelaide Award (for outstanding artistic or cultural achievement outside of SA by a local show; not to be confused with the Adelaide Fringe Made in Australia Award)
Stevie Gadlabarti Goldsmith Memorial Award Major Moogy Sumner (founder of Tal-Kin-Jeri Dance Group)
Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Award Nicholas Carter (Principal Conductor, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra)
Geoff Crowhurst Memorial Award Nick O’Connor, Director, Northern Sound System
People's Choice Award True North Youth Theatre Ensemble
Premier's Award for Lifetime Achievement Alison Milyika Carroll, Indigenous artist and community leader at Ernabella/Pukatja

The 2019 Ruby Awards will be held at Queens Theatre on Friday 29 November. All winners receive a bespoke, ruby-coloured glasswork designed and made at the JamFactory, and a new prize for Premier's Award for Lifetime Achievement was established: a gold nameplate on a seat in the Festival Theatre. The People's Choice Award established in 2017 was not offered.

More information 2019 Finalists (Winners in bold) ...
2021 Finalists[18] (Winners in bold[19][20])
Best Festival

For the best festival of the year.
Best Work or Event Within a Festival

For the best performance, work, production or event of the year presented as part of a festival program.
Best Work or Event Outside a Festival

For the best performance, work, production or event of the year not presented as part of a festival program.
Best Work, Event or Project for Young People

For the best performance, work, production, event or initiative of the year aimed specifically at young people.
Best Regional or Community Event or Project

For the best artistic or cultural event, project or initiative of the year that had a significant positive impact on a community or region in South Australia.
Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation or Group

Recognising outstanding achievement or contribution by a small to medium arts organisation or group receiving no funding, or less than $1 million in funding, from Arts South Australia.
Best Collaboration
  • Floods of Fire, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with Brink Productions, Tutti Arts, Nexus Arts, Julian Ferraretto, Adam Page, Hilary Kleinig, Zhao Liang, Jakub Jankowski, Grayson Rotumah, Luke Harrald and Lab Adelaide
  • The Boy Who Talked to Dogs, Slingsby Theatre Company and State Theatre Company South Australia in association with Adelaide Festival and Draiocht
  • Decameron 2.0, State Theatre Company South Australia and ActNow Theatre
Stevie Gadlabarti Goldsmith Memorial Award

Recognising outstanding achievement or contribution by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander focused organisation or group, or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individual working in any area of the arts.

 Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin
Frank Ford Memorial Young Achiever Award

Recognising outstanding achievement or contribution by an individual aged under 35, working in any area of the arts.

 Grace Coy
Geoff Crowhurst Memorial Award

Recognising an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to community cultural development.

 Nick Hughes
Premier's Award for Lifetime Achievement

Recognising an individual who has made a remarkable, long-standing contribution to arts and culture

 Pat Rix and Garry Stewart (joint winners)

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