Credit: Jarrod Barnes
Introducing the 2025 fellows
Every year the Library invites artists, writers, storytellers, educators, researchers, creatives and more to apply for one of its fellowships and use the State Collection in a project.
This week the Library announced its 2025 Fellowship recipients and awarded 18 creatives and scholars a share of $195,000 in funding, dedicated office space at the Library for 12 months and one-on-one support from a specialist librarian.
The ambitious projects include a choose-your-own-adventure storybook for young Library visitors; an immersive, open-world experience reimagining the Library within a climate-altered futuristic gaming environment; a multi-disciplinary work by musician Mo’ju; and a project on Blak hauntology that reclaims horror as a vehicle for Indigenous storytelling.
This year’s fellows and projects are:
Amor Residency at Baldessin Studio: Diana Wells for Intertidal
Berry Family Fellowship: Elyas Alavi for Echoing Shadows
Children’s Storytelling and Literature Fellowship: Joanne Amarisa and Mei Leong for My Summer in the Library: A guided storytelling adventure for children and teens
Climate Futures Artist Fellowships: Dr Anna McMichael for Sounds of the White Continent: Sounds and sights of Antarctica; Vei Tan and Patrick Macasaet for The Great Reclamation: A speculative archive of climate futures
Creative Fellowships: Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga for KAPWA; Avni Dauti and Rebecca Dauti for Faed
Georges Mora Fellowship: Hayley Millar Baker for Blak Hauntology
John Emmerson Research Fellowship: Professor Danielle Clarke for Constructing an alternative history of reading
Kerri Hall Fellowship for the Performing Arts: Adam Fawcett for Just An Artist: Lost stories from regional stages that helped shape Victoria’s cultural landscape
Marion Orme Page Creative Regional Fellowships: Louise Crisp for Bogong; Lorraine Brigdale and Dr Peta Clancy for wala woka
Redmond Barry Fellowship: Brendan Casey for Magascenes: A guidebook to Australian Little Magazines
Tate Adams Residency at Baldessin Studio: Ella Mittas for an artist’s book featuring original prints, essays and Greek Australian recipes