The Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency is designed to support a Victorian Aboriginal emerging artist with financial support to explore ideas and develop skills that will realise new iterations of cultural practice and development and build their practice into the future.
Artistic practices can include (but are not be limited to) the visual arts; music; creative writing - including fiction, film, theatre and dance performance, and other practices generally understood to be part of the arts and cultural practice.
This fellowship will provide a grant, paid in two instalments, to the early-career creative individual 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 work.
Candidates for the Fellowship must:
- Reside in Victoria or have an ancestral connection to Victoria.
- Be a Victorian Indigenous arts practitioner (Visual or Performing) who identifies with at least one of the 38 languages (or 11 language families) of Victoria.
- Have a successful record over at least three years as an Indigenous arts practitioner; a degree in a relevant discipline would be favourably viewed.
- Have three or more years’ relevant experience in a related industry.
INTENDED OUTCOMES
Creative Work/ Research:
The final Creative Work or research output produced during, or resulting from the Fellowship must be reported within a completion statement to the Faculty. Suggested outcomes may include, but are not limited to, public exhibition, performance, forum and or publication of artwork, design, dance, film, theatre or music.
Payment
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 and a completion statement at conclusion of their activity.
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Applications close 5.00pm on the closing date. Please contact Scholarships Office via email at fineartsmusic-scholarships@unimelb.edu.au with any questions.
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