The Trust awards two Ian Potter Creative Fellowships annually. The Fellowships will provide unrestricted, tax-free grants of $200,000 over two years to individual Australian artists, creatives, and cultural leaders. Specific outcomes for the Fellowships are not required.
Nominations are welcome for individual artists, creators, and cultural leaders throughout the spectrum of the arts, from visual and performing to interdisciplinary, new media, literature, and the humanities.
The inaugural Fellows appointed in 2024 were writer Josephine Rowe and composer-performer James Rushford. Rowe and Rushford join eight other outstanding individuals as the 2024 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows.
The two criteria used to select Fellows are outstanding talent and exceptional courage. Specifically, this talent and courage relate to the nominee's creative practice (commonly illustrated through artistic challenges, daring innovation, breaking new ground, and redefining the possible) and not to surmounting hardships.
All nominations must be submitted through the Sidney Myer Fund SmartyGrants portal. The value, criteria and structure of the Ian Potter Creative Fellowships will match the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships and be determined as part of the same selection process.
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