Previous Creative Fellowship Recipients
The diverse range of Fellowship projects undertaken in previous years demonstrates the Library's place as a hub of intellectual inquiry and discourse.
2008
Six-month funded Fellowship
Ms Angela Betzien, Ms Leticia Caceres
One Night the Dead
A new concept for a location-based game and live performance event for young people by artistic team Real TV in association with independent game designer Deb Polson.
Three-month funded Fellowships
Dr Meredith Fletcher
Biography of Jean Galbraith: Gardener, botanist, conservationist and writer
A biography
Ms Margaret Geddes
Fighting for Peace: Victorian women peace activists during World War One
A book manuscript
Mr Kevin Morgan
The career of Frederick John Piggott, CIB Superintendent 1913-1928
A book manuscript
Dr Andrián Pertout
Twenty-four solo piano miniatures incorporating quotations from early Australian composers
A musical composition
Dr Tom Petsinis
A novel framed in present day Fitzroy focusing on a childhood in the 1960s
A novel
Ms Fiona Tuomy, Ms Liz Burke
Australian Cultural Identity: An exploration of the development of Australian arts and cultural identity in the 1970s using the novel Monkey Grip as a case study
A documentary script
Honorary Fellowships
Morris Gleitzman (12 months)
Three children’s novels
Dr Jessie Mitchell (six months)
In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia through God, Charity and Empire 1825-1855
A book manuscript and articles
Ms Trudy White (six months)
Catalogue of the World
An illustrated book for children
2007
Three-month funded Fellowships
Visual artist and art lecturer, Dr Kate Daw
Love Objects: a visual art project exploring collected objects, place and time
Writer, Dr Jane Grant
Paradise and Yet: A critical biography of Cynthia Nolan
Writer, Michael Gurr
The Union Book (working title only) non-fiction
Historian, Dr Ross McMullin
Geoff McCrae and Australia’s lost generation
Writer, artistic director, David Mence
The First Fleet: in search of the Australian leviathan
Artist, Tom Nicholson
The Camp: an exploration of the disparate histories of Royal Park
Film and video production directors, Richard Raber and Naomi Bishops
Australian Modernism: An exploration of innovative residential architecture from the 1950s and 1960s (with a strong focus on Melbourne modernism)
Writer, composer and musician, Irine Vela
Australia in Danger: Slide night - A multimedia historical music-drama for 5 actors, 3 musicians
Three-month Honorary Fellowship
Artist, Juan Davila
Panorama of Melbourne
2006
Three-month funded Fellowships
Playwright, Ms Sarah Cathcart
Boat 2: Australians at War on Sea and On Land
Research for a play script
Art historians, Ms Eileen Chanin and Mr Steven Miller
A comparative study of sculptor Dora Ohlfsen, musicologist Louise Hanson-Dyer, publicist Alleyne Clarice Zander and artist Mary Cecil Allen
Research for a book
Historian, Mrs Caroline Clemente
Dr Howitt’s Corner: A civilised centre in Early Melbourne
Research for a book
Historian and artist, Dr Julie Anne Gough
Strait crossings - Nineteenth century Indigenous relocation between Victoria and Van Deimen’s Land and beyond
Research for a bibliographic resource and a body of art work
Novelist, Ms Chloe Hooper
Western District Novel
Research for a novel
Artist, Ms Judy Horacek
The Quests and Questions of Home
Research for a body of artwork
Playwrights, Mr Christopher Kohn and Ms Lally Katz
Research into the history of Melbourne’s vaudeville artists and theatres between the wars
Research for a playscript
Artist, Mr Bruno Leti
The wandering lines in verse, maps and image of Victoria: From Coastline to Desert
An artist’s book
Novelist, Ms Kirsty Murray
Escaping Lilliput
A novel for younger readers
Three-month Honorary Fellowship
Historian, Ms Elizabeth Willis
Gentlemen Amateur Collectors in Port Phillip 1835 - 1855
Research for a book
2005
Six-month funded Fellowships
Researcher Dr Hilary Maddocks
The Art of Print: documentation of European Illustrated printed books c1470 – 1550
Three-month funded Fellowships
Author, Dr Fiona Capp
Once an Outlaw
Radio producer, Dr Lyn Gallacher
Magic Words: an exploration othe life and art of Will Alma
Curator, Elizabeth Gertsakis
Horror, Calamity and Graphthos in Victorian popular illustratednews in Melbourne 1875 – 1877
Artist and writer, Xenia Hanusiak
Golden Threads: an opera
Playwright, Dr Jack Hibberd
The Nunawading Messiah and the Chosen People of Victoria
Writer and artist, Brian Lipson
Bergasse 19: the apartments of Sigmund Freud
Art historian, Dr Paul Paffen
War and Peace: H. Septimus Power and M. Napier Waller and the murals of the State Library of Victoria
Artist, John Ryrie
A book in the form of a medieval bestiary representing some of the people and animals Europeans believed to exist on the Great Southern continent
Architectural historian, Terence Sawyer
Tracing the Line: an analysis of the development of the architecture of William Pitt
Curator, Lisa Sullivan
Sybil Craig: art and archive
Artist, Christian Bumbarra Thompson
A Reinterpretation of Percy Leason’s Aboriginal paintings
Writer and researcher, Dr Maria Tumarkin
The Chronicles of Unaccompanied Minors
Historian, Dr Rachel Weaver
Defending the Homestead: representations of Aboriginal and settler violence in colonial and late-colonial Australian popular culture
Author, Arnold Zable
Sea of Many Returns
2004
Nine-month funded Fellowship
Non-fiction writer, Paul Fox
Travelling, Europe in the Australian Imagination?
Six-month funded Fellowship
Historian, Dr Danielle Clode
Visions of Australia: The role of French scientists in the development of Australian natural history
Composer, Dr Martin Friedel
Underworld Songs
Multi-media artist, Genevieve Grieves
Picture the Past – Representing Photographic Portraits of Indigenious Victorians
Three-month funded Fellowships
Historian, Richard Aitken
Botanical Riches
Historian, Dr Leslie A Fraser
A Natural and Social history of the Merri Creek catchment from Wurundjeri Times to 2004
Author, Rod Jones
Cultural Desert? Australian Artists (1945-1975) and their responses to a conformist society
Historian, Daniel Palmer
The Birth of Australian Fashion Photography
Author, Dr Carolyn Rasmussen
Do not expect me to sit in contentment’: Maurice and Doris Blackburn and the ‘struggle for freedom and advancement’ in Australia, 1900-1970
Historian, Dr Alan Warren
A re-examination of the casualty statistics for the Passchendaele /Third Battle of Ypres campaign of autumn 1917
Curators, Jeffrey Wassmann and Kirsten Rann
Alternative Histories – Possible Worlds: Melbourne through the eyes of another
2003
Six-month funded Fellowships
Non-fiction writer, Ms Robyn Annear
Whelan The Wrecker Was Here
Non-fiction writer, Mr Paul De Serville
Completing the editing of Captain Frederick Charles Standish's Diaries
Fiction writer, Dr Delia Falconer
The Soft Republic
Visual arts/author, Mr Peter Lyssiotis
The Garden at Midnight: Journey into the Holy Lands
Playwright, Mr John Romeril
Some time in the Shed
Visual artist, Mr John Wolseley
Imagining Nature: Old Books, New Images
Three-month funded Fellowships
Playwright, Mr Bill Garner & Ms Sue Gore
A play about Sir Redmond Barry and the foundation of the State Library of Victoria
Book now for their play The Future Race, on 5-24 May 2008 >
Composer, Mr Marshall McGuire
Researching the collection of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Read more about Marshall McGuire >
Non-fiction writer, Dr Michael McKernan
Drought: The Australian experience
Non-fiction writer, Ms Bev Roberts
Drysdale and Newcombe, an extraordinary partnership
Six-month Honorary Fellowships
Composer, Assoc. Prof. Richard Divall
Preparing for publication & performance of 8-10 volumes of major Australian compositions
Read more about Richard Divall >
Independent scholar, Ms Jane Lydon
Photographing Victoria's Moravian Aboriginal Reserves
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