Past recipients: Creative Fellowships

The diversity of Creative Fellowship projects undertaken in previous years reflects the Library's place as a hub of intellectual inquiry and discourse across a broad range of disciplines.

2011

Funded fellowships

• 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 Melbourne Leader 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

2010

Funded fellowships

• Luke Beesley – research for a book manuscript based on Victorian seed dispersal and wind patterns.
• James Griffin – three cycles of lyric ballads and poems that portray life in a rural Victorian town.
• Leah Kaminsky – research for a non-fiction narrative about Yiddish–Polish poet Melekh Ravitch.
• Barbara Lemon ­­­­­­– research for a book manuscript about Ola Cohn, a pioneer of modernist sculpture.
• Sandra Fiona Long – a performance script that explores the relationship between humans and wind.
• Anne Longmire – research on the history of the Catalysts Club.
• Jim Pavlidis – an illustrated book based on a diary about dance classes taken in 1914.
• Monica Raszewski – a play that explores friendships and mother–daughter relationships.

2009

Funded fellowships

• Roger Averill – biography of Werner Pelz, Rumours of hope
• Robyn Ballinger – book manuscript, Conquering aridity: the nature and culture of water in Victoria's north
• Paul Davis – design and illustration of zines, pamphlets and ephemera
• Christine Eid – book manuscript, In the driver's seat: a history of Victoria’s female taxi drivers 1918–2008
• Elissa Goodrich – contemporary world-jazz suite with supporting visual artwork, Child's play…games in time of war
• Michael Shirrefs – artist's book and radio program inspired by a volume of early Parisian maps, The tale of the 1880 'Atlas des anciens plans de Paris'

Honorary fellowships

• Sasha Grishin – catalogue raisonné about ST Gill and his public
• Deb Verhoeven and Brian Morris – book manuscript, A history of Melbourne–Sydney rivalry
• Michael Watson – series of articles about the public library and loan exhibitions during the 1860s

2008

Funded fellowships

• Angela Betzien & Leticia Caceres – a new concept for a location-based game and live performance event for young people
• Meredith Fletcher – biography of Jean Galbraith: gardener, botanist, conservationist and writer
• Margaret Geddes – Fighting for peace: Victorian women peace activists during World War I
• Kevin Morgan – The career of Frederick John Piggott, CIB superintendent 1913–1928
• Andrián Pertout – twenty-four solo piano miniatures incorporating quotations from early Australian composers
• Tom Petsinis – novel framed in present-day Fitzroy focusing on a childhood in the 1960s
• Fiona Tuomy & Liz Burke – Australian cultural identity: an exploration of the development of Australian arts and cultural identity in the 1970s

Honorary fellowships

• Morris Gleitzman – three children's novels
• Jessie Mitchell – In good faith? Governing Indigenous Australia through god, charity and empire 1825–1855
• Trudy White – Catalogue of the world: an illustrated children's book

2007

Funded fellowships

• Kate Daw – love objects: a visual art project exploring collected objects, place and time
• Jane Grant – Paradise and yet: a critical biography of Cynthia Nolan
• Michael Gurr – The union book (working title)
• Ross McMullin – Geoff McCrae and Australia's lost generation
• David Mence – The First Fleet: in search of the Australian leviathan
• Tom Nicholson – The camp: an exploration of the disparate histories of Royal Park
• Richard Raber & Naomi Bishops – Australian modernism: an exploration of innovative residential architecture from the 1950s and 1960s
• Irine Vela – Australia in danger: slide night, a multimedia historical music–drama for five actors & three musicians

Honorary fellowship

• Juan Davila – Panorama of Melbourne

2006

Funded fellowships

• Sarah Cathcart – Boat 2: Australia at war
• Eileen Chanin & Steven Miller – comparative study of sculptor Dora Ohlfsen, musicologist Louise Hanson-Dyer, publicist Alleyne Clarice Zander and artist Mary Cecil Allen
• Caroline Clemente – Dr Howitt's corner: a civilised centre in early Melbourne
• Julie Anne Gough – Strait crossings: 19^th century indigenous relocation between Victoria and Van Deimen's Land and beyond
• Chloe Hooper – Western District novel
• Judy Horacek – The quests and questions of home
• Christopher Kohn & Lally Katz – History of Melbourne's vaudeville artists and theatres between the wars
• Bruno Leti – The wandering lines in verse, maps and image of Victoria: from coastline to desert
• Kirsty Murray – Escaping Lilliput: a novel for younger readers

Honorary fellowship

• Elizabeth Willis – gentlemen amateur collectors in Port Phillip 1835–1855

2005

Funded fellowships

• Hilary Maddocks – the art of print: documentation of European illustrated printed books c1470–1550
• Fiona Capp – Once an outlaw
• Lyn Gallacher – Magic words: an exploration of the life and art of Will Alma
• Elizabeth Gertsakis – Horror, calamity and graphthos in Victorian popular illustrated news in Melbourne 1875–1877
• Xenia Hanusiak – golden threads: an opera
• Jack Hibberd – The Nunawading Messiah and the chosen people of Victoria
• Brian Lipson – Bergasse 19: the apartments of Sigmund Freud
• Paul Paffen – War and peace: H Septimus Power and M Napier Waller and the murals of the State Library of Victoria
• John Ryrie – a medieval bestiary representing some of the people and animals Europeans believed existed on the Great Southern continent
• Terence Sawyer – Tracing the line: an analysis of the development of the architecture of William Pitt
• Lisa Sullivan – Sybil Craig: art and archive
• Christian Bumbarra Thompson – A reinterpretation of Percy Leason's Aboriginal paintings
• Maria Tumarkin – The chronicles of unaccompanied minors
• Rachel Weaver – Defending the homestead: representations of Aboriginal and settler violence in colonial and late-colonial Australian popular culture
• Arnold Zable – Sea of many returns

2004

Funded fellowships

• Paul Fox – Travelling: Europe in the Australian imagination?
• Danielle Clode – Visions of Australia: the role of French scientists in the development of Australian natural history
• Martin Friedel – Underworld songs
• Genevieve Grieves – Picture the past: representing photographic portraits of indigenious Victorians
• Richard Aitken – Botanical riches
• Leslie A Fraser – A natural and social history of the Merri Creek catchment from Wurundjeri times to 2004
• Rod Jones – Cultural desert? Australian artists (1945–1975) and their responses to a conformist society
• Daniel Palmer – The birth of Australian fashion photography
• Carolyn Rasmussen – Maurice and Doris Blackburn and the 'struggle for freedom and advancement' in Australia, 1900–1970
• Alan Warren – a re-examination of the casualty statistics for the Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) campaign of autumn 1917
• Jeffrey Wassmann & Kirsten Rann – Possible worlds: Melbourne through the eyes of another

2003

Funded fellowships

• Robyn Annear – Whelan The Wrecker was here
• Paul De Serville – completing the editing of Captain Frederick Charles Standish's diaries
• Delia Falconer – The soft republic
• Peter Lyssiotis – The garden at midnight: journey into the Holy Land
• John Romeril – Some time in the shed
• John Wolseley – Imagining nature: old books, new images
• Bill Garner & Sue Gore – a play about Sir Redmond Barry and the foundation of the State Library of Victoria
• Marshall McGuire – researching the collection of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
• Michael McKernan – Drought: the Australian experience
• Bev Roberts – Drysdale and Newcombe, an extraordinary partnership

Honorary fellowships

• Richard Divall – preparing eight to ten volumes of major Australian compositions for publication and performance
• Jane Lydon – photographing Victoria's Moravian Aboriginal reserves

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