Philip Hunter Fellowship 2025

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Philip Hunter Fellowship

Eligibility and benefits

Applicants who meet the following criteria are eligible to apply:

Applicants must have been practicing their art form between 5-15 years after graduating from any undergraduate or graduate degree within the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.

Applicants may not have received the Philip Hunter Fellowship previously.

Applicants will need to provide evidence of having identified an opportunity outside of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, that will be important to their professional development.

Individuals or group projects are acceptable, with only the lead applicant requiring to meet all the eligibility criteria.

The grant will be payable in two parts and a six monthly progress report will be required to release the second allocation.

Requirements

Applicants must submit the following:

• CV of applicants (lead and main collaborators).

• A written description of the proposed creative project (500 words max). Applicants should articulate the relevance of their project to contemporary creative practice. The essay should describe the applicant’s experience or familiarity with their proposed subject, and their suitability to achieve the project’s stated aims and outcomes.

• Portfolio of relevant recent work in support of the proposed project (10 A4 pages max). Each uploaded file should contain a single image, not spreads of multiple images. Each image must be dated and captioned. The selection panel is looking for personal work that demonstrates design talent; student projects may be included. If work is collaborative, the applicant’s contribution to the work must specifically involve conceptual development and/or design, and the applicant’s role must be precisely identified.

• The portfolio may be supplemented by published articles or research papers written by the applicant. Authored works should appear in their original format, with publication name and date clearly indicated.

• List of three professional references (full name, affiliation, contact information, and relationship to the applicant). Letters are not required at this time.

 You can save your application and return to it during the application period, however uploaded documents will not be saved for partial submissions. Applications may not be accessible after 5PM AEST on the closing date.

Philip Hunter Fellowship 2025

This fellowship will provide a research grant to mid-career creative individuals/teams who can demonstrate exceptional talent, have produced work of scholarly and professional merit and who show genuine promise for developing a continuing practice of creative, sustainable work. The Philip Hunter Fellowship will support a wide range of art forms and creative disciplines engaging in themes and issues that hold currency in contemporary creative practice. The intention of this fellowship is to provide financial support to practitioners so that their creative practice and studio programme can continue to develop and sustain. The Fellowship will encourage broadening Faculty of Fine Arts and Music professional networks and contribute to the notion of an extended field of discourse with other disciplines, supporting artists to flourish at a high level of intellectual, cultural and artistic endeavour. The Philip Hunter Fellowship will be awarded in memory of Philip Hunter, an artist whose ideas explored broader subjects relating to landscape, geography and the environment. This fellowship will provide a grant, awarded annually, to artists who can demonstrate exceptional talent, have produced work of scholarly and professional merit and who show genuine promise for developing a continuing practice of creative, sustainable work. This grant will offer $20,000.

INTENDED OUTCOMES

 It is a condition of the Fellowship that the following outcomes be presented, published and/or delivered publicly at the completion of the 12-month Fellowship. This could be delivered in the context of an exhibition, a public seminar forum, a studio visit or an artist talk. This is an important part of a strong belief in the social and cultural impact creative practice can have in contemporary society. Further, this public outcome feature of the Philip Hunter Fellowship will contribute significantly to debate and engagement for students and staff at the University of Melbourne, allowing for examination of the ideas produced during the Fellowship through any aforementioned public exhibition, performance, forum and or publication created. Suggested outcomes may include, but are not limited to, pieces of artwork, design, dance, film, theatre or music.

Benefits:

The grant will be payable to the successful candidate in two parts and a six monthly progress report will be required to release the second allocation.  Applicants must not have received the Philip Hunter Fellowship previously.

Please read the Philip Hunter Fellowship Guidelines before completing this application. Where you are requested to upload documents, please note, the system cannot support uploads of more than 25MB. If you try and upload a larger document, you many not be able to submit and you may lose all of your data.

Applications close 5.00pm on the closing date. Please contact Scholarships Office via email at fineartsmusic-scholarships@unimelb.edu.au with any questions.

Assessment timeframe:

Assessments will commence in September and the Committee Meeting will take place in October, with final outcomes delivered by end of October.

Selection

The Fellowship selection panel will include a senior academic from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and a representative of the Philip Hunter Estate. This panel will be appointed on an annual basis by the Director of the Victorian College of the Arts.

The Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music will provide final approval of the recipient.

The awarding of the Fellowship, by the selection panel, will be based on:

  • The quality of the application portfolio.
  • Creative accomplishments.
  • Originality and persuasiveness of the proposal outline.
  • Evidence of ability to fulfill the proposed project’s aims and outcomes.
  • The potential for the Fellowship to impact the applicant’s future development.

The selection panel will reserve the right to withhold awarding the Fellowship in a given year where an insufficient number of high quality applications have been received.