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Previous Creative Fellowship Recipients

The diverse range of Fellowship projects undertaken in previous years demonstrates the Library's place as a hub of intellectual inquiry and discourse.

2007

Three-month funded Fellowships

Visual artist and art lecturer, Dr Kate Daw
Love Objects: a visual art project exploring collected objects, place and time

Writer, Dr Jane Grant
Paradise and Yet: A critical biography of Cynthia Nolan

Writer, Michael Gurr
The Union Book (working title only) non-fiction

Historian, Dr Ross McMullin
Geoff McCrae and Australia’s lost generation

Writer, artistic director, David Mence
The First Fleet: in search of the Australian leviathan

Artist, Tom Nicholson
The Camp: an exploration of the disparate histories of Royal Park

Film and video production directors, Richard Raber and Naomi Bishops
Australian Modernism: An exploration of innovative residential architecture from the 1950s and 1960s (with a strong focus on Melbourne modernism)

Writer, composer and musician, Irine Vela
Australia in Danger: Slide night - A multimedia historical music-drama for 5 actors, 3 musicians

Three-month Honorary Fellowship

Artist, Juan Davila
Panorama of Melbourne

2006

Three-month funded Fellowships

Playwright, Ms Sarah Cathcart
Boat 2: Australians at War on Sea and On Land
Research for a play script

Art historians, Ms Eileen Chanin and Mr Steven Miller
A comparative study of sculptor Dora Ohlfsen, musicologist Louise Hanson-Dyer, publicist Alleyne Clarice Zander and artist Mary Cecil Allen
Research for a book

Historian, Mrs Caroline Clemente
Dr Howitt’s Corner: A civilised centre in Early Melbourne
Research for a book

Historian and artist, Dr Julie Anne Gough
Strait crossings - Nineteenth century Indigenous relocation between Victoria and Van Deimen’s Land and beyond
Research for a bibliographic resource and a body of art work

Novelist, Ms Chloe Hooper
Western District Novel
Research for a novel

Artist, Ms Judy Horacek
The Quests and Questions of Home
Research for a body of artwork

Playwrights, Mr Christopher Kohn and Ms Lally Katz
Research into the history of Melbourne’s vaudeville artists and theatres between the wars
Research for a playscript

Artist, Mr Bruno Leti
The wandering lines in verse, maps and image of Victoria: From Coastline to Desert
An artist’s book

Novelist, Ms Kirsty Murray
Escaping Lilliput
A novel for younger readers

Three-month Honorary Fellowship

Historian, Ms Elizabeth Willis
Gentlemen Amateur Collectors in Port Phillip 1835 - 1855
Research for a book

2005

Six-month funded Fellowships

Researcher Dr Hilary Maddocks
The Art of Print: documentation of European Illustrated printed books c1470 – 1550

Three-month funded Fellowships

Author, Dr Fiona Capp
Once an Outlaw

Radio producer, Dr Lyn Gallacher
Magic Words: an exploration othe life and art of Will Alma

Curator, Elizabeth Gertsakis
Horror, Calamity and Graphthos in Victorian popular illustratednews in Melbourne 1875 – 1877

Artist and writer, Xenia Hanusiak
Golden Threads: an opera

Playwright, Dr Jack Hibberd
The Nunawading Messiah and the Chosen People of Victoria

Writer and artist, Brian Lipson
Bergasse 19: the apartments of Sigmund Freud

Art historian, Dr Paul Paffen
War and Peace: H. Septimus Power and M. Napier Waller and the murals of the State Library of Victoria

Artist, John Ryrie
A book in the form of a medieval bestiary representing some of the people and animals Europeans believed to exist on the Great Southern continent

Architectural historian, Terence Sawyer                       
Tracing the Line: an analysis of the development of the architecture of William Pitt

Curator, Lisa Sullivan
Sybil Craig: art and archive

Artist, Christian Bumbarra Thompson     
A Reinterpretation of Percy Leason’s Aboriginal paintings

Writer and researcher, Dr Maria Tumarkin
The Chronicles of Unaccompanied Minors

Historian, Dr Rachel Weaver
Defending the Homestead: representations of Aboriginal and settler violence in colonial and late-colonial Australian popular culture

Author, Arnold Zable
Sea of Many Returns

2004

Nine-month funded Fellowship

Non-fiction writer, Paul Fox
Travelling, Europe in the Australian Imagination?

Six-month funded Fellowship

Historian, Dr Danielle Clode
Visions of Australia: The role of French scientists in the development of Australian natural history

Composer, Dr Martin Friedel
Underworld Songs

Multi-media artist, Genevieve Grieves
Picture the Past – Representing Photographic Portraits of Indigenious Victorians

Three-month funded Fellowships

Historian, Richard Aitken
Botanical Riches

Historian, Dr Leslie A Fraser
A Natural and Social history of the Merri Creek catchment from Wurundjeri Times to 2004

Author, Rod Jones
Cultural Desert? Australian Artists (1945-1975) and their responses to a conformist society

Historian, Daniel Palmer
The Birth of Australian Fashion Photography

Author, Dr Carolyn Rasmussen
Do not expect me to sit in contentment’: Maurice and Doris Blackburn and the ‘struggle for freedom and advancement’ in Australia, 1900-1970

Historian, Dr Alan Warren
A re-examination of the casualty statistics for the Passchendaele /Third Battle of Ypres campaign of autumn 1917

Curators, Jeffrey Wassmann and Kirsten Rann
Alternative Histories – Possible Worlds: Melbourne through the eyes of another

2003

Six-month funded Fellowships

Non-fiction writer, Ms Robyn Annear
Whelan The Wrecker Was Here

Non-fiction writer, Mr Paul De Serville
Completing the editing of Captain Frederick Charles Standish's Diaries

Fiction writer, Dr Delia Falconer
The Soft Republic

Visual arts/author, Mr Peter Lyssiotis
The Garden at Midnight: Journey into the Holy Lands

Playwright, Mr John Romeril
Some time in the Shed

Visual artist, Mr John Wolseley
Imagining Nature: Old Books, New Images

Three-month funded Fellowships

Playwright, Mr Bill Garner & Ms Sue Gore
A play about Sir Redmond Barry and the foundation of the State Library of Victoria
Book now for their play The Future Race, on 5-24 May 2008 >

Composer, Mr Marshall McGuire
Researching the collection of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Read more about Marshall McGuire >

Non-fiction writer, Dr Michael McKernan
Drought: The Australian experience

Non-fiction writer, Ms Bev Roberts
Drysdale and Newcombe, an extraordinary partnership

Six-month Honorary Fellowships

Composer, Assoc. Prof. Richard Divall
Preparing for publication & performance of 8-10 volumes of major Australian compositions
Read more about Richard Divall >

Independent scholar, Ms Jane Lydon
Photographing Victoria's Moravian Aboriginal Reserves

 
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