Introducing the 2025 fellows
Credit: Jarrod Barnes
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