CREATE 2019 RECIPIENTS
| Recipient | Amount funded | Activity |
| Abdul Abdullah | $10,000 | Abdul will create ‘Hierarchies’, using reprogrammed surveillance technologies to co-opt a gallery into a screening room where audiences will observe their real-time digital profiling on large display monitors in the space. |
| Daniel Keene | $15,000 | Daniel will write a play that explores the aftermath of the ecological and social disaster brought about by climate change. |
| Debbie Symons | $10,000 | Debbie, an environmental artist, will create and develop her project, ‘Sing’ comprising 50 hand-woven pendant nests containing sensor-activated mini speakers playing pre-recorded bird songs, suspended from the gallery ceiling. |
| Eloise Grills | $10,000 | Eloise will write a memoir that dissects the multiplicity and fragmentation of feminine identity and how it is constructed through bodily transformation, makeup, beauty, mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, social codes and technology. They will explore how one can make sense of themselves in a culture obsessed with fitting women and non-binary people into boxes. |
| Sulari Goonetilleke | $15,000 | Sulari will work on her upcoming novel, a post-modern cross-cultural thriller that sets up stories within stories, entwining the narratives in a climax that can be read on many levels. |
| Tegan Bennett Daylight | $20,000 | Tegan will write a new work of literary non-fiction. |
IGNITE 2019 RECIPIENTS
| Recipient | Amount funded | Activity |
| Winnie Dunn | $5,000 | Winnie will undertake a mentorship to develop Tongan-Australian literature in Western Sydney with Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad and will develop her creative writing practice in prose and autobiographical fiction. |
| Madelaine Dickie | $5,000 | Madeleine will undertake a month-long structured residency at Arquetopia International Artists Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico and will complete a first draft of her third novel, a literary surf noir crime thriller set in Mexico and Western Australia. |
| Lisa Sammut | $5,000 | Lisa has received an eight-week structured Studio Program at Heima Art Residency (Iceland), a one–week intensive Mentorship in Video & Installation Art with Laure Prouvost (France) and a period of research at the Venice Biennale (Italy). |
| Janine Mikosza | $4,800 | Janine has received a six-month structured mentorship with US writer Sarah Sentilles to finish a full draft of her creative non-fiction manuscript, and aims to enhance her editing and revision skills, and to send a completed manuscript to agents and publishers by November 2019. |
| Kaitlyn Plyley | $4,240 | Kaitlyn will undertake a one-on-one structured mentorship with writer, editor and critic Fiona Wright to strengthen her abilities as a non-fiction writer and better equip her to navigate a writing career. |
| Ronnie Scott | $4,000 | Ronnie will work with mentor, Alexander Chee at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, after negotiating a novel mentorship structure, devising four ‘avenues of inquiry’ that will lead their in-person discussions on campus. |
| Alana Hunt | $5,000 | Alana will undertake a mentorship with Ross Gibson, an Australian writer, filmmaker and artist whose work engages with the history of environmental consciousness in colonial cultures, developing skills as a writer and artist. Alana will also undertake residencies with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Fremantle Art Centre on Western Australia. These residencies will equip Alana with new artistic, literary and research skills. |
| Michele Freeman | $3,780 | Michele has received support to work with mentor Catherine Cole, an Australian author, to complete a final draft of her manuscript, her first full-length novel set in Sydney’s Western suburbs. |
| Adele Dumont | $2,640 | Adele is supported for a two-week residency at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, as well as a mentorship, where Adele will review and develop her current manuscript, a collection of personal essays, to final draft stage. |
| Thom Roberts | $5,000 | Thom has been invited to undertake a structured residency at Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in Cesana, Italy, by Director Chiara Guidi who, alongside Scott Wright, Artistic Director of Erth Visual and Physical Theatre, will work in collaboration to mentor Thom in new modes of storytelling, specifically using virtual reality (VR) technology. |
| Ellen O’Brien | $1,980 | Ellen has been invited to attend the Acts of Listening Lab at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, Quebec. As a visiting artist, Ellen will undertake an intensive mentorship developing her artistic practice and professional skills in a performance and innovation space that interrogates listening in post-conflict contexts. |
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