Our 2011 fellows and scholars are researching a range of subjects including Aboriginal resistance leaders, book design and the Australian orchestral composer Robert Hughes.
Creative Fellowships for 2012 will be awarded in June 2012.
Creative fellows
Funded fellowships
- Nam Le – research for a novel that seeks to present 20th-century Vietnam from the complex, conflicting perspectives of its inhabitants and visitors
- 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
Redmond Barry fellow
Jim Davidson will research literary magazine culture in Melbourne between 1940 and 1988, and produce a book manuscript, Bigger than little.







