48/49 <strong>Library</strong> Board <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> Annual Report O7—O8
Images clockwise from top left Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, London, Penguin, 1972. Reproduced by permission <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the Book. Man: The Australian Magazine for Men, April 1938. From Perils <strong>of</strong> the Studio Creative Fellowships In June 2007, the <strong>Library</strong> announced the successful applicants for the fi fth year <strong>of</strong> the Creative Fellowships, supported by the <strong>State</strong> <strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> Foundation. The <strong>Library</strong>, with the University <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Library</strong> this work will explore the relationship that objects have with their owners, particularly those objects that have been kept over a long period <strong>of</strong> time or have travelled great distances. Jane Grant Paradise and Yet: A critical biography <strong>of</strong> Cynthia Nolan As a novelist in the 1940s, Cynthia Nolan was at the forefront <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the politics <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the beginnings <strong>of</strong> the union movement in <strong>Victoria</strong> and Australia. Ross McMullin Ge<strong>of</strong>f McCrae and Australia’s lost generation: work <strong>of</strong> non-fi ction This project is a study <strong>of</strong> Australia’s lost generation. It is an evaluation <strong>of</strong> the devastating loss the nations suffered through the deaths <strong>of</strong> so many <strong>of</strong> its brightest and best in the Great War <strong>of</strong> 1914–18. Ge<strong>of</strong>f 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 <strong>of</strong> the Australian Leviathan: playscript A project to research the settlement <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> by south-sea whalers leading to the writing and production <strong>of</strong> a new play. Tom Nicholson The Camp – an exploration <strong>of</strong> the disparate histories <strong>of</strong> Royal Park: a work in visual art The creation <strong>of</strong> a series <strong>of</strong> drawings, Super-8 fi lms and photographs, based on the <strong>Library</strong> collections and interpreting the disparate histories and events associated with Royal Park. Richard Raber and Naomi Bishops Australian Modernism – an exploration <strong>of</strong> innovative residential architecture from the 1950s and 1960s: research and writing for a documentary series An examination <strong>of</strong> the life and work <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> Melbourne: visual artwork This panorama will represent Melbourne today and Melbourne in an imagined future. The Redmond Barry Fellowship, in association with the University <strong>of</strong> Melbourne Kristin Otto Capital – Melbourne when it was the capital city <strong>of</strong> Australia: a work <strong>of</strong> non-fi ction This book will tell the story <strong>of</strong> Melbourne when it was the capital city <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the Mount Macedon District: a work <strong>of</strong> non-fi ction This will use the story <strong>of</strong> Parker, an Assistant Protector <strong>of</strong> Aborigines, and the Indigenous people he was supposed to serve. It will be a case study in the administration <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>of</strong> the distinguished historian and supported by him with a generous grant, the fi rst Summer Fellows were: Spirodoula Demetriou (University <strong>of</strong> Melbourne) Research on a thesis exploring the creation <strong>of</strong> modern Greece. Stephen Gaunson (RMIT University) Research on the fi lms made about Ned Kelly. Michael Sheill (University <strong>of</strong> Ballarat) Research on alternate means <strong>of</strong> documenting ephemeral environmental art. Anne Watson (Monash University – Gippsland Campus) Research on picture shows and movie houses in Gippsland.
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