| RECIPIENT |
AMOUNT |
ACTIVITY |
| Author, Sharlene Allsop (Queensland) |
$20,000 |
Developing an autofiction novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, explores Sharlene’s great grandfather’s war record throughout northern France and England, and entangles Sharlene’s life, contesting definitive genre boundaries in Australian literature as an act of reclamation and decolonisation at both a family and national level. |
| Author Evelyn Araluen (Victoria) |
$20,000 |
A novel, Carrion: Writing Fiction in the Shadow of Colonial Patriarchy – an imaginative exploration into literary histories of racism and misogyny originating in the settler-colonial dispossession and exclusion of Indigenous, refugee, and migrant communities, and structures of hetero-patriarchal oppression of women. |
| Visual artist, Georgia Banks (Victoria) |
$20,000 |
Georgia will bring together three key works in All of Me spanning 2020–23 and a new live work commission, Death Warmed Up which delves into the world of Reality TV and AI, exploring ideas of death, fame and legacy, exploring the ways reality tv shapes culture and revealing human desires, such as being loved, seen, and never having to die. |
| Author Sam Carmody (Western Australia) |
$20,000 |
Gracetown, a novel, offers a timely study of Australian culture, environment and history, in particular the impacts of mining within the context of increasingly fragile environments and rising wealth inequality. |
| Visual artist, Hop Dac (Victoria) |
$20,000 |
Firefly will explore themes from Hop Dac’s grandfather’s translated poems as well as universal themes of identity, belonging, disconnectedness, cultural losses and gains central to the refugee and migrant experience. Hop Dac will use domestic imagery from religion, 1980s Australian childhood, and the Vietnamese diaspora in both rural and metropolitan settings. |
