ACT Creative Arts Fellowships (1995-2013)
The ACT Government, through the ACTArts Fund, offered Creative Arts Fellowships from 1995 until 2013.
ACT Creative Arts Fellowships were offered to individual artists in any art form who had achieved a level of excellence in their arts practice and who demonstrated the potential for further creative growth. They recognised the artist's achievements in their practice to date, and provided funds to allow them the dedicated time to significantly advance their artistic career. Commencing at $20,000 in 1995, the Fellowships increased to $35,000 in 2001 and $45,000 in 2009.
YEAR | ARTIST | BRANCH | |
2013 | Valerie Kirk | Visual Arts | To research and develop two contemporary woven tapestries. The Brian P. Schmidt Tapestry and related works on paper and the Canberra 100 Community Tapestry. |
2012 | Susanne Powell | Music | To study the playing techniques and repertoire of the celeste in Australia, Europe and USA. |
2011 | Soutiris Dounoukis | Film | To develop a firm slate with market and mentor feedback and produce a director's "bible". |
2011 | Michael Cove | Literature | To research and complete three screenplays. |
2010 | Tim Meyen | Music | To intensively study Romanian cimbalom technique, in particular the disappearing older styles and repertoire of the professional gypsy musicians. |
2010 | Nike Savvas | Visual Arts | To undertake field work in Rio de Janeiro, looking at the relationship between modern architecture and traditional housing and aspects of Brazilian textiles. She will then spend nine months in her Canberra studio developing the work for exhibition. |
2009 | Ruth Lee Martin | Music | To write a series of vocal works. |
2009 | Peter J. Casey | Music | To extend his repertoire into the area of chamber opera, mentored by composer Michael Smetanin, the Head of Composition at Sydney University, and Melbourne orchestrator Dr Michael Kram |
2008 | Anna Eggert | Visual Arts | To experiment in wood-working and casting techniques. |
2008 | Sandra France | Music | To develop a chanber opera and other works. |
2007 | Judy Horacek | Visual Arts | To develop a set of limited edition prints and undertake a three-month arts residency in Prague, where she will explore the issues of origin, identity, migration, sense of place, the idea of home, and old culture versus new culture. |
2006 | Bev Hogg | Visual Arts | To incorporate observations of Australian landscape in her ceramics and preparation of exhibition of ceramics and drawings. |
2006 | Ian Jones | Visual Arts | To prepare and exhibition in Japan of his wood-fired ceramics. |
2006 | Julian Thompson | Music | To develop and create new directions in practice, particularly through integrating the cello in all genres of music using digital technology. |
2005 | Ian Blake | Music | To create a new body of work fusing traditional, digital and interactive performance technologies. |
2005 | Elizabeth Cameron Dalaman | Dance | To research the history of dance techniques and continue studying Japanese contemporary movement. |
2005 | Jennifer Robertson | Visual Arts | To develop a new body of work based on French 16th-18th Century weave techniques. |
2004 | Kirstie Rea | Visual Arts | To research and develop new modes of presentation and new ideas in glass making. |
2004 | Christopher Robertson | Visual Arts | To imvestigate technologies and materials to create a body of work for high profile exhibition. |
2004 | John Shortis | Music/Theatre | To research the history and content of political/satirical cabaret. |
2003 | Alan Gould | Literature | To work on the novel Tapestry, also known as Life Drawings. |
2003 | Matthew Harding | Visual Arts | To work on pieces of sculpture and prepare for an exhibition in 2004. |
2003 | Jennifer Martinello | Literature | To complete novel Blossoms in the Mulga and work on children's book Fish and Rainbow. |
2002 | Helen Geier | Visual Arts | |
2002 | Paul Hetherington | Literature | To work on new collection of poems, Investigating the Horizon. |
2002 | Franki Sparke | Visual Arts | |
2001 | Judith Clingan | Performing Arts | |
2001 | Mandy Martin | Visual Arts | Travel and research in Mexico resulting in an exhibition of paintings and works on paper. |
2001 | Ken Spiteri | Performing Arts | To undertake professional theatre training at Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq. |
2000 | Robert Foster | Visual Arts | To concentrate on a new technique termed 'water forming' and build a new body of work. |
2000 | Steven Kelen | Literature | To assist with costs of completing a book of poems and beginning new work. |
2000 | Ruth Waller | Visual Arts | To assist with the costs of producing a series of large paintings. |
1999 | Margaret Barbalet | Literature | To complete a book on spiritual issues, Angels over Malacca, and the novel Paradise Hotel. |
1999 | Judi Elliot | Visual Arts | For experimentation with 'sand casting', a glass working technique. |
1999 | Carolyn Kidd | Performing Arts | To focus on music as yet unexplored by Australian guitarists and develop new work |
1998 | Michael Le Grand | Visual Arts | For sculpture studio research |
1998 | Lizz Murphy | Literature | To work on a collection of poems, Two Lips Went Shopping. |
1998 | Elizabeth Paterson | Performing Arts | |
1997 | Helen Aitken-Kuhnen | Visual Arts | To concentrate on development of larger scale cast glass and metal work.s |
1997 | Jim Cotter | Performing Arts | Inaugural Fellowship for the Performing Arts. |
1997 | Sara Dowse | Literature | |
1996 | William J. Lines | Literature | To write the book False Economy : Australia in the Twentieth Century. |
1996 | Wendy Teakel | Visual Arts | |
1995 | Neil Roberts | Visual Arts | Inaugural Fellowship for the Visual Arts. |