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.

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

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 . ..”

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

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.

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.

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

“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.”