Prize

Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency

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Key scholarship details

Application status

Open for automatic consideration

Benefit amount

Up to $45,000

Eligible study level

Graduate coursework, Graduate research

Eligible student type

Domestic students

Eligible study stage

Current study, Alumni

Benefit duration

One-off

Summary

The Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency is an annual award that provides 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. Established in 2014 by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, the Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency program honours Mr Darvell Hutchinson AM, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his direct stewardship of the Trust's activities.The Helen Macpherson Smith Trust makes grants to support the immediate and long term needs of the wider community of Victoria across a range of targeted program areas to help build fair, creative and resilient Victorian communities through initiatives that promote positive change.

About the donor

Helen Macpherson Smith Trust

Benefits

The Fellowship award offers a grant of $45,000, payable in two instalments, with an additional amount up to $5,000, towards the cost of materials.

Amount:

Up to $45,000

Duration:

One-off

Quantity:

1

Eligibility and selection criteria

Eligibility

To be considered for this scholarship, you must be an indigenous creative practitioner and have an ancestral or other connection to Victoria.

Selection criteria

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. A selection panel will be convened to determine the Fellowship awardee.

Study level:

Graduate coursework, Graduate research

Student type:

Domestic students

Study stage type:

Current study, Alumni

Study area:

Music, visual and performing arts

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Application

How to apply

Selection is by invitation only.

Status:

Open for automatic consideration

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