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Announcing the 2024 Creative Arts Fellows

The National Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Creative Arts Fellowships.

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Three people sitting at wooden tables, looking at National Library collection material.

Left to right: Dr Mei-Fen Kuo, Dr Wesley Lim and Sam Wallman, 2023 NLA Fellows

Announcing the recipients of the 2024 NLA Fellowships

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of the 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and National Folk Fellowship.

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Sam Wallman in the Special Collections Reading Room, leaning on a desk

Sam Wallman, 2023 Creative Arts Fellow supported by the Friends of the NLA.

Creative Arts Fellowship

For writers and artists to research and develop new artistic concepts, artworks or body of works inspired or informed by the collections. Fellows receive $10,000 to spend 4 weeks at the Library.

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Eleven people posed for a photo under the National Library's exterior colonnade.

Summer Scholars, NLA Fellows and Asia Study Grant recipients in residence at the National Library in February 2022.

Fellowships 2024: see your research come together

Applications for 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and the Folk Fellowship open on 3 March 2023.

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2023 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Tets Kimura sits at a library desk examining a large open book filled with swatches of fabric or coloured paper. They have dark hair and wear glasses and a navy blue shirt. Next to them on the desk is a wooden box with more books in it.

Fellowships and scholarships

Supporting researchers, writers, artists and PhD candidates to engage with our unique collections to create new and innovative works.

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Image credit: Miriam Hyde, 1939, courtesy Wirrapang publishers.

Meeting Miriam with Celia Craig

Celia Craig presented a lecture on her 2024 Creative Arts Fellowship research on the early life of teenage musical virtuoso and synesthete Dr Miriam Hyde.

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A black and white image of two people sitting in a 1920s style aeroplane while grounded.

Pioneer aviator Amy Johnson, 1929, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-150938035

Tracing aviatrix archives with Dr Jo Langdon

Dr Jo Langdon presented a lecture on research into the lives and records of Australian women pilots.

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