University of Melbourne
- Project: Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship
- Amount: $1,000,000
- Year(s) Funded: 2014
Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship, $45,000 annual residency in perpetuity.
$1 million grant from the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust establishes a far-reaching new Indigenous arts residency program, named in honour of Darvell M Hutchinson AM, who steered the Trust for 50 years .
“The creation of the Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship offers an incredible opportunity to amplify the voice of South Eastern Indigenous knowledges and links a name which is the very definition of longevity in Australia’s Philanthropic community with the longest continuing culture and arts practice in the world.”
DEBORAH CHEETHAM AO, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
”Created to enable a Victorian Aboriginal artist to undertake a significant project of their choice every year, the fellowship will build an alumni of Victorian Indigenous artists who have been provided with a unique opportunity to explore ideas, enhance skills and develop new iterations of Indigenous cultural practice.
Each residential fellowship lasts for one year, with a cash grant of $40,000 plus up to $5,000 for materials (indexed for inflation). It offers each artist appropriate support from a range of specialist resources at the University of Melbourne including the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Conservation at the Parkville campus.
The residency offers an unprecedented opportunity to utilise the range of facilities at the University of Melbourne. This includes enrolment in the Grimwade Centre’s Specialist Certificate in Cross-Cultural Conservation and Heritage with progression to a Master’s program, without any formal education prerequisites.
Based at the University’s Southbank campus, it will allow recipients time and space away from their usual environment or obligations, opening up opportunities for reflection, research, presentation and production. The HIF will be open to Indigenous arts practitioners who identify with at least one of the 11 language families of Victoria.
Applicants must have a successful record of at least three years as an Indigenous arts practitioner and at least three years’ relevant experience in a related industry. A degree in a relevant discipline is desirable but not mandatory. Applicants need to provide a clear vision and purpose of their residency and a set of outcomes, and state how it will benefit from the resources at the University of Melbourne, how it will increase the profile of Victorian Indigenous cultural practice and how it will enhance the career of the applicant.
http://vca-mcm.unimelb.edu.au/wilin