| RECIPIENT |
AMOUNT |
ACTIVITY |
| Visual artist, Tiyan Baker (New South Wales) |
$20,000 |
‘to tangle together like coursing water’ – an immersive video artwork drawing on records of Bidayǔh oral poetry, a lost artform in contemporary Bidayǔh society. Tiyan has been relearning her mother’s language, Bukar, an endangered language spoken by approximately 50,000 Indigenous Bidayǔh people in south-western Sarawak, Malaysia, and will present Bukar through a poetic transference of knowledge through generations. |
| Wiradjuri poet, Alison J Barton (Victoria) |
$20,000 |
A novel,‘Murrigal Reise‘ is a verse novel exploring relationships between German Lutheran missionaries who arrived in Australia circa 1830-60 and Australian Indigenous peoples. The book combines family and community stories told to Alison through German maternal ancestral lines, about acts of protection by the Germans to save First Nations’ lives and preserve culture, with stories already on record of the deeply detrimental impact of the missions.
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| Visual artist, Leon Russell Black (Northern Territory) |
$20,000 |
‘Bush Holliday Dreaming’ (working title) – challenges perceptions and invites audiences into the Tiwi way of seeing, where everything is connected, where stories live in the land, the sky and the sea. Leon’s paintings are about his country, culture, family and the Tiwi people of Pirlangimpi, reflecting the ancient and the contemporary Tiwi culture so it remains strong, relevant, and alive. |
| Author Eda Gunaydin (New South Wales) |
$20,000 |
Turkish-Australian essayist and critic Eda will complete her second essay collection, ‘This is Where I Leave You: Essays on Polycrisis’ spanning memoir and criticism, and using this era of polycrisis as an entry-point to ask how ‘unprecedented times’ change – and renew – how people live. The book asks: how do we go on? And what new selves are emerging due to these world-historical changes? The book is also concerned with how we relate to place, exploring how our relationships with inside/outside and public/private are shifting. |
| Author, Jordan Prosser (Victoria) |
$20,000 |
“Blue Giant” is a satirical novel set at the intersection of mental health and Australia’s present-day climate crisis. Partly inspired by the collapse of tech start-up “Mars One” in the 2010s, the story follows disillusioned millennial Abby Horne as she embarks on a self-destructive quest to become the first person on Mars.The dramatic question at the heart of the story is this: if a person you loved announced they were abandoning Earth with a one-way ticket to a distant planet, would you applaud their sacrifice or question their sanity? Through a high-concept, page-turning narrative, “Blue Giant” interrogates our modern obligations: to ourselves, to each other, to future generations and to the planet we live on. |
