CONTENT COURTESY SIDNEY MYER CREATIVE FELLOWSHIPS
Courage is at the core of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, and this year, nine exceptional mid-career artists have been announced as 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows.
They have been awarded to:
Lior Attar, music, VIC (pictured above);
Maxine Clarke, writing VIC;
Ceridwen Dovey, writing, NSW;
Natano Fa’anana, performance, QLD;
Lydia Fairhall, producing, QLD;
Alisdair Macindoe, dance, VIC;
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, visual arts, NSW;
Angela Tiatia, visual arts, NSW;
Emma Valente, theatre, VIC.
Each Fellow will receive an unrestricted and tax-free grant of $160,000 across a two-year period.
“Courage is a word that is often bandied about, but real courage, as shown by these artists, displays a fearlessness in making and producing their art. This is important to them, but also to everyone at large. We need artists to be free to speak through their art-making, and to open our eyes on issues that are not always visible particularly as we struggle to comprehend an increasingly complex and divided society.”
Andrew Myer AM, Chair of the Selection Panel
The national Peer Review Panel for the 2019 Fellows included: Andrew Myer AM, Clare Watson, Elizabeth Walsh, Genevieve Lacey, Jo Dyer, Tarun Nagesh and Amos Gebhardt.
Established in 2011, the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships have to date awarded more than $12 million directly to 82 mid-career artists.
To be nominated for a Fellowship, artists and thought leaders must be within seven and 15 years into their creative practice and meet two criteria: outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage. They are open to artists and arts managers across the entire spectrum of the visual, performing, interdisciplinary, new media and literary arts.
You can read more about the fellowships on the website.
Images supplied.
