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Library Announces Fellowship and Script Development Award Recipients
19 June 2009
The State Library of Victoria today awarded a total of $190,000 to Australian writers, academics and artists through a number of prestigious Fellowships and script development awards.
The Library's program of five Fellowships encourages the literary and creative use of its rich collections.
Funded three-month Creative Fellowships were awarded to six recipients, and a further three were granted honorary Creative Fellowships. This year's projects include a history of Victoria's female taxi drivers from 1918 till 2008, a contemporary world jazz suite inspired by children's wartime songs, an exploration of early Parisian maps and a detailed study of the Melbourne Sydney rivalry.
The second Dr Joseph Brown AO Fellowship was awarded to Benjamin Thomas, who will examine Melbourne's commercial art market from the emergence of Sedon Galleries in the mid 1920s through until the beginning of the Second World War.
Dr Helen McDonald received the $25,000 La Trobe Society Fellowship. Dr McDonald will produce a book manuscript on the curious life of Melbourne's first mayor Henry Condell.
The Redmond Barry Fellowship was awarded to Andrew Dodd to compose a biography of the Victorian colonial architect John James Clark.
Phillip Brophy was granted the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship. Mr Brophy's project will explore how artists have been depicted in cinema and popular culture as psychopathic through a set of animations for a video installation.
A total of $30,000 was awarded to four Victorian playwrights through the 2009 R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards. These annual awards, administered by the State Library of Victoria, support the development of plays as works-in-progress by local playwrights.
The 2009 award winners are:
- Bridgette Burton for Rhonda Is In Therapy
- Angus Cerini for Save For Crying
- Declan Greene for Pompeii, LA
- Thomas Henning for Raging In The Name Of The Dead
Declan Greene has also been invited to develop Pompeii, LA at PlayWriting Australia's National Script Workshop 2010.
See the full list of 2009 Fellowship recipients >
Learn more about the Library's Fellowships >
Learn more about the R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards >
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