Creative Fellowships
Artists, writers, dancers, performers and musicians – now’s your chance to go wild with the Library’s collections or in response to our site!
Our 2 Creative Fellows will have the chance to create new work in any medium. Write a book, create an artwork or plan an immersive experience for the Library – it’s up to you.
We’d love to hear from individuals practising in any art form, including:
- visual or digital arts
- dance
- performance
- music or composition
- writing
- research.
The fellowships include:
- $15,000 funding
- desk space at the Library for 12 months
- access to collections and Library staff expertise.
Funding is based on approximately 3 months of work in the Library. This can be either continuous or broken up over the year, and you’ll have access to your office for the full 12 months.
Previous recipients
Learn more about the inspiring projects undertaken by past and present fellows in our fellows gallery.
- 2024: Grace Vanilau with the project O le Toe 'Aumaiga: A Reclamation, an exploration of writings, journals, and images from the Victoria State Library archives that depict Fafine Sāmoa – Samoan women.
- 2024: Lawrence Leung with the project Melbourne Gothic: A Séance At The State Library Victoria, an immersive historical lecture and performance that examines 19th-century Melbourne's Spiritualism craze.
- 2022: Dr Sofi Basseghi with the project The Road to Pairidaeza, an examination of Persian literature, miniature paintings and manuscripts in the Library's collection.
- 2022: Veisinia Tonga with the project The Darkness which will examine the accounts of Tongan contact with missionaries to illuminate pre-contact life in Tonga.
- View previous Creative Fellows from 2003 to 2019.