State Library Victoria announces the 2018 Fellowship recipients

The awardees for the ‘State Library of Victoria Fellowships’ have been announced. Funds have been granted to artists and scholars from a pool of $200,000, which is aimed at supporting research opportunities across a range of categories including children’s literature, social history, visual arts, theatre, Ukrainian studies, and this year includes the inaugural ‘Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellowship’.

Glenn Skein, Letter from America (detail of wall installation), 2016, etching on hand made muslin envelopes, collage and bees wax. Courtesy the artist and State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Hartley Briggs received the ‘Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellowship’ of $15,000, which supports Aboriginal researchers to explore the Library’s collections and engage with archival records to produce research material that can be used by the community.

The $15,000 ‘Creative Fellowships’ winners are; Santilla Chingaipe – ‘African migration to Australia: the untold story’ – is a film project telling the stories of African migrants who came to Australia pre-federation. Ella Egidy – ‘Hold your tongue: an illustrated history of control and dissent in Victoria’ – presents a history of key social issues and movements in Victoria, presented through political propaganda and public art, in the form of a nonfiction graphic novel. Donna Kendrigan – ‘Hyperrealia’ – brings to life the unique and compelling realia items in the Library’s collection in a series of 20 short digital animation loops. Dr Liz Rushen – ‘Edmund Finn (alias Garryowen): colonial master of media in Port Phillip and Victoria, 1835-1852′ – is an exploration of the work of Edmund Finn, an Irish migrant to Port Phillip, a journalist for thirty years and an eyewitness to the development of early Melbourne and Victoria. The project will result in a biography, seminar, exhibition, blog and article. Tim Stone and Aya Hatano – ‘Poynduk – the city that never was – an interactive documentary exploring Critchley Parker Jr.’s proposal to establish a Jewish settlement in South West Tasmania.’ Nikki Tran – ‘Six Days on a Leaky Boat’ – is a stage musical set in Melbourne’s western suburbs during the early 1980s that centres on a Chinese-Vietnamese refugee family beginning their lives as new Australians.

Taking out the ‘Honorary Creative Fellowships’ are Alisa Bunbury – ‘Silent Witness: The Art of Eric Thake (1904-1983), painter, printmaker, war artist, photographer and designer’ – a catalogue raisonné of the work of significant Melbourne artist Eric Thake, and Sally Ann McIntyre – ‘a single sound is enough to rouse an archive (talking to the lyrebird about copyright)’ (working title) – is a history of sound and radio in Australia and the ability of environmental recording to preserve lost worlds.

The winner of the $5,000 ‘Amor Residency at Baldessin Press Studio’ is Glen Skien for ‘Poetics of Ephemera’ – a studio based research project exploring the Library’s archives of ephemera resources, resulting in a series of copper plate etchings with collage elements that will be hand-bound into a book by the artist. In association with the Baldessin Press, the ‘Amor Residency’ at St. Andrews is for a visual artist wishing to explore works on paper, in particular printmaking or artists’ books. And the $10,000 ‘Georges Mora Fellowship’ for a contemporary artist to study, experiment and explore fresh thinking in their art is awarded to Dr Jude Walton for ‘Research into women who existed on the margins of the Surrealist movement in Paris and Melbourne, towards the making of Nadja-Leona (remembering a woman who), based on Andre Breton’s book ‘Nadja’ – presenting a new activated installation, performance and illustrated floor talk.

‘Berry Family Fellowship’ ($15,000) – Dominic Gordon
‘Children’s Literature Fellowship’ ($15,000) – Leanne Hall
‘Children’s Literature Fellowship’ (Honorary) – John Oldmeadow
‘Emerging Writers Fellowship’ ($2000) – Susie Anderson
‘John Emmerson Research Fellowship ($15,000)’ – Prof. Susan Wiseman
‘Redmond Barry Fellowship ($20,000)’ – Dr Jillian Graham
‘Ukrainian Studies Foundation in Australia Fellowship’ ($15,000) – Eugene Perepletchikov

Past Fellowships have produced major exhibitions, public art installations, documentaries, books, graphic novels, plays, musical scores, interactive games and many other projects.

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