Current recipients: Creative Fellowships

Our 2011 creative fellows are researching a variety of topics including pioneering female sculptor Ola Cohn and explorer William Dampier.

Creative Fellowships for 2012 will be awarded in June 2012.

Funded fellowships

In 2011, the following recipients were awarded $12,500 for three months' study:

• Nam Le – research for a novel treating, in part, with 20th century Vietnam
• Jenny Grigg – illustrated book on contemporary book design, Cover stories
• Joanna Drimatis – book manuscript, Rediscovering hidden treasures: the music of Robert Hughes AM
• Stephen Banham – book manuscript, I'll have what he's having: finding the voice of Australian graphic design 1930-1970 (working title)
• Antoni Jach – artist's book, In ruins: Luxor and Thebes past and present
• Kevin Childs and Emily McCulloch Childs – book manuscript that tells the scarcely-known stories of Aboriginal resistance leaders, Warriors on the frontier
• Linden Lyons – book manuscript, Thomas Denton Clarke: his chess problems and the MelbourneLeader in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Lucy Fahey – animation on Victoria's past and present loiterers, A history of loitering

Honorary fellowships

• Margaret Bowman – book manuscript, Cultured colonists: George Alexander Gilbert and his family
• Tony Moore – documentary script, Marcus Clarke: an unnatural life