Access and engagement - State Library of Victoria

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clockwise from top left
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork
Orange, London, Penguin, 1972.
Reproduced by permission of
Penguin Books Ltd.
Anne Muir, Harvesting Colour:
The Year in a Marbler's
Workshop, Oldham, UK, Incline
Press, 1999.
Jas H Duke, Dada Kampfen um
Leben und Tod: A Prose Poem,
Katoomba, Wayzgoose Press
1996. All from The World of
the Book.
Man: The Australian Magazine
for Men, April 1938. From Perils
of the Studio
Creative
Fellowships
In June 2007, the Library announced the
successful applicants for the fi fth year of the
Creative Fellowships, supported by the State
Library of Victoria Foundation. The Library, with
the University of Melbourne, announced the
Redmond Barry Fellowship, and with the LaTrobe
Society the inaugural LaTrobe Society Fellowship.
Creative Fellowships
Kate Daw
Love Objects: a visual art project exploring
collected objects, place and time.
Using the collections of the Library this work will
explore the relationship that objects have with
their owners, particularly those objects that have
been kept over a long period of time or have
travelled great distances.
Jane Grant
Paradise and Yet: A critical biography
of Cynthia Nolan
As a novelist in the 1940s, Cynthia Nolan was at
the forefront of Australian literary modernism but
as a writer she always stayed one step ahead.
By the 1960s she had turned her remarkable
talent to an examination of the politics of marriage
and her creative subjugation within it. In the main
her work went unnoticed and was misunderstood.
This biography seeks to reclaim her literary
reputation.
Michael Gurr
The Union Box (working title): work of non-fi ction
An inside look at one or more struggling
Australian trade unions in a Federal election
year. Critical to the book will be an historical
underpinning of the beginnings of the union
movement in Victoria and Australia.
Ross McMullin
Geoff McCrae and Australia’s lost generation:
work of non-fi ction
This project is a study of Australia’s lost
generation. It is an evaluation of the devastating
loss the nations suffered through the deaths
of so many of its brightest and best in the Great
War of 1914–18. Geoff McCrae was a classic
example. In talent and temperament few typifi ed
the crippling national deprivation more than he.
David Mence
The First Fleet – in search of the
Australian Leviathan: playscript
A project to research the settlement of Victoria
by south-sea whalers leading to the writing
and production of a new play.
Tom Nicholson
The Camp – an exploration of the disparate
histories of Royal Park: a work in visual art
The creation of a series of drawings, Super-8
fi lms and photographs, based on the Library
collections and interpreting the disparate
histories and events associated with Royal Park.
Richard Raber and Naomi Bishops
Australian Modernism – an exploration
of innovative residential architecture from
the 1950s and 1960s: research and writing
for a documentary series
An examination of the life and work of innovative
Australian architects and their impact on
postwar Australia.
Irene Vela
Australia in Danger – slide night:
a multimedia historical music drama
This will recreate as a play a meeting of the
Democratic Labor Party held in 1964 at which
the supposed communist threat from Asia was
explored through a lengthy slide presentation.
Honorary Creative Fellowship
Juan Davila
Panorama of Melbourne: visual artwork
This panorama will represent Melbourne today
and Melbourne in an imagined future.
The Redmond Barry Fellowship, in association
with the University of Melbourne
Kristin Otto
Capital – Melbourne when it was the capital city
of Australia: a work of non-fi ction
This book will tell the story of Melbourne when
it was the capital city of Australia, between 1901
and 1927.
The La Trobe Society Fellowship,
in association with the La Trobe Society
Frances Theile
Edward Stone Parker and the Aboriginal
People of the Mount Macedon District:
a work of non-fi ction
This will use the story of Parker, an Assistant
Protector of Aborigines, and the Indigenous
people he was supposed to serve. It will be a
case study in the administration of Indigenous
issues under Charles Joseph La Trobe.
AGL Shaw Summer Research Fellowships
The inaugural Summer Research Fellowships for
students engaged in their fourth year honours
research or fi rst postgraduate degree were
awarded in December. Named in honour of the
distinguished historian and supported by him with
a generous grant, the fi rst Summer Fellows were:
Spirodoula Demetriou
(University of Melbourne)
Research on a thesis exploring the creation
of modern Greece.
Stephen Gaunson
(RMIT University)
Research on the fi lms made about Ned Kelly.
Michael Sheill
(University of Ballarat)
Research on alternate means of documenting
ephemeral environmental art.
Anne Watson
(Monash University – Gippsland Campus)
Research on picture shows and movie
houses in Gippsland.