Marion Orme Page Regional Fellowships in partnership with Regional Arts Victoria

Two headshots of women, one with a black background and one with trees behind her. — (L-R) Alison Wong and Dr Fayen Ke-Xiao d'Evie, 2022 fellows

In association with Regional Arts Victoria, two fellowships are available to regional Victorians to be inspired by, repurpose, transform or imaginatively respond to published or original source material from the Library’s extensive collection, in any way they choose, to create new work.

The fellowships carry a grant of $15,000, access to a desk space in a shared office for 12 months (January – December 2023), access to collections and staff expertise.

The Marion Orme Page Regional Fellowships in partnership with Regional Arts Victoria are supported by a generous donation from the Marion Orme Page bequest.

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Previous fellows

Explore our fellows gallery to learn more about the inspiring projects undertaken by past and present fellows.

2022: Dr Fayen Ke-Xiao d'Evie with the project Celestial roots which responded thematically and aesthetically to a handwritten journal from 1866 by Chinese miner Ah Sing Jong, who lived on the Central Victorian goldfields, the original copy of which is in the State Library collection.
2022: Alison Wong with the project A long walk, which saw her travel over 400kms from Robe, South Australia, to the Victorian goldfields, writing a literary memoir/long-form lyric essay reflecting on her own experience, interwoven with the experience of about 14,000 Chinese who, to avoid the Colonial Government of Victoria’s £10 poll tax, walked the route in the 1850s.