SLV Creative Fellowships announced

8 July 2014 Books+Publishing

The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2014-15 Creative Fellowships. Each of the creative fellowships is funded for three months with a grant of $12,500. Among the recipients selected for funding are several writers whose projects will contribute to the library’s collections or involve exhibitions in the library space.

Sharon Huebner will work on a book manuscript titled Noongar and Koories: interpreting the silences of a colonial archive. Petr Herel will research French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry’s personal book collection, which was acquired by the library in 2011, to create a significant artist’s book in a limited bilingual edition. William Kelly will research Australian visual artists practising between World War I and the present day to create an ‘accordian’ artists book—literally an unfolding story that celebrates and connects their artworks. Malcolm Turner will research the ‘historical, social and artistic background to the centenary of Australian animation’ through a series of film essays.

Centenary of WWI Fellowships
The SLV also announced the first recipient of a series of specialist fellowships offered over four years to historians and researchers wanting to access the library’s collection of WWI content. Jill Jolliffe will use the library’s collections of reports sent from the battlefront by war correspondents, photographers and artists to complete Public images of World War I: the myth and the reality.

Redmond Barry Fellowship
The Redmond Barry Fellowship, worth $20,000, was awarded to Michael Davis to write The Greg Dening papers: using ethnographic history in writing about Aboriginal/European environmental encounters. Davis’ project will take the form of an article for publication and a reading guide.

Children’s Book Fellowship
The Children’s Book Fellowship, worth $12,500, was awarded to Theresa O’Connor to research her project Popuppets! Pop-up books and monster puppets; community engagement and public performance.

Berry Family Fellowship
The biennial Berry Family Fellowship, worth $12,500, was awarded to Minna Muhlen-Schulte, who will write an article for publication and radio program called Crossing enemy lines: German-Australian identity in wartime Victoria.

To see the full list of fellowship recipients, visit the website here.

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