The Philip Hunter Fellowship is designed to support creative teams working within a wide spectrum of art forms, creative disciplines, and environmental research programs that engage in narratives of landscape. The intention of this fellowship is to encourage cross-disciplinary conversation and projects, where applicants are required to work collaboratively to provide a comprehensive framework that demonstrates an engagement with the cultural geography and natural history of place. Through stimulating collaborative research, the fellowship aims to bind ideas of geography to themes and issues that hold currency in contemporary creative practice. This fellowship will provide a research grant, awarded annually, to early-career creative individuals/teams who can demonstrate exceptional talent, have produced work of scholarly and professional merit and who show genuine promise for developing a continuing practice of creative, sustainable work. The Philip Hunter Fellowship is unique in that it allows for genuine cross-disciplinary work to be seeded and flourish at a high level of intellectual, cultural and artistic endeavour. The work created out of the Fellowship will also have a public impact. It is a condition of the Fellowship that outcomes be exhibited, published, and/or delivered in a public seminar forum, relative to the participating disciplines. This is an important part of a strong belief in the social and cultural impact creative practice can have in contemporary society, particularly in relation to the environment. Further, this public outcome feature of the Philip Hunter Fellowship will contribute significantly to debate and engagement for students and staff at the University of Melbourne, allowing for examination of the ideas produced during the Fellowship through any public exhibition, performance, forum or publication created. Suggested outcomes may include, but not be limited to, pieces of art work, design dance, film, theatre, music, or landscape architecture. The Philip Hunter Fellowship is intended for independent research. The grant may, in part, be applied to external fees for workshops and conferences.
Applications are open to teams and/or individuals, with the primary applicant being restricted to graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (who have graduated within 10 years of the application closing date) who can demonstrate proposals that create collaboration with other fine art disciplines or design or environmental practice graduates within relevant degrees of the University of Melbourne. The grant will be payable to the successful candidate in two parts and a six monthly progress report will be required to release the second allocation. Applicants must not have received the Philip Hunter Fellowship previously. Please read the Philip Hunter Fellowship Terms and Conditions before completing this application. Where you are requested to upload documents, please note, the system cannot support uploads of more than 25MB. If you try and upload a larger document, you many not be able to submit and you may lose all of your data. The following browsers are compatible with this application: Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. It is not recommended that you use Internet Explorer. Applications close 5.00pm on the closing date. Please contact Scholarships Office via email at fineartsmusic-scholarships@unimelb.edu.au with any questions.
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