From the Bogong High Plains to Yorta Yorta Country — and even as far as Antarctica — State Library Victoria’s 2025 fellows are set to make new discoveries in the library’s collection and produce career-defining work.
Eighteen creatives and scholars have been awarded a share of $195,000 in funding, dedicated office space at the library for 12 months and one-on-one support from a specialist librarian.
Performing arts, printmaking, poetry and photography are just some of the new projects given the green light for the library's 2025 Fellowships Program.
From the Marion Orme Page Creative Regional Fellowships categories, two Yorta Yorta artists, Lorraine Brigdale and Dr Peta Clancy, have received $15,000 for their artwork, wala woka.
Ms Brigdale and Dr Clancy will work in parallel to create new artwork in response to photographs by Nicholas Caire featuring Maloga Mission held in the library’s collection.
Both artists have familial ancestral connections to Maloga Mission, which was established in 1870 in NSW along the Murray River in Yorta Yorta/Bangerang.
Their new artwork will be informed through research into Maloga Mission and the cultural and environmental significance of the Dhungala (Murray River), via archives held at the library.
Their research will situate their family stories within the broader history of dispossession from Country and subsequent return.
For more information, visit slv.vic.gov.au/fellowships