Twenty-one creative individuals and groups have been named the state’s ‘Creators’ for 2018, as the first recipients of funding through the Victorian Government’s ground-breaking Creators Fund.
A key initiative of the Victorian Government’s $115m Creative State strategy, the Creators Fund will enable recipients to work intensively to research and develop their creative ideas over a three to six month period.
The Creators Fund paves the way for independent creatives to take their practice and their careers to the next level by providing them with one of the most important and scarce resources - time.
A new round of the Creators Fund is now open. Applications close 26 July 2018.
Meet the inaugural Creators Fund Recipients, selected by expert panels from more than 200 applications.
Alterfact
Alterfact is an experimental design studio created by Lucile Sciallano and Ben Landau. Read more
Anna Spargo-Ryan
Anna Spargo-Ryan is the Melbourne-based author of The Gulf and The Paper House, and winner of the 2016 Horne Prize. Read more
Antony Hamilton
Antony Hamilton is an Australian choreographer. His multi award-winning performances involve a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design. Read more
Cake Industries
Cake Industries use mechatronics, robotics, carpentry, 3D printing, and reworked everyday objects to create anthropomorphic and autonomous sculptural works. Read more
David Chisholm
David Chisholm has a multi-award-winning, international composition practice defined through diverse and hybrid collaboration. Read more
Fayen d'Evie
Fayen d'Evie is an artist, writer and curator. Originally a response to to her own degenerative vision, Fayen is interested in the potential for blindness to inform creative practice. Read more
John Harvey
John Harvey is a producer, director and writer working in both drama and documentary. Read more
Logan Mucha
Logan Mucha is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a passion for exploring human rights issues. Read more
Lyn-Al Young
Lyn-Al Young is an emerging fashion designer from Melbourne and a proud Gunnai, Wiradjuri, Gunditjmara and Yorta Yorta woman. Read more
Martin Friedel
Martin Friedel has composed and directed music for theatre productions at major Australian companies and created scores for more than 50 films. Read more
Melanie Joosten
Melanie Joosten is the author of the novels Gravity Well and Berlin Syndrome, and the non-fiction collection A Long Time Coming: Essays on Old Age. Read more
Michelle Heaven
Michelle Heaven is an independent choreographer and dance performer. Read more
Moira Finucane
Moira Finucane is a cross-artform immersive performance creator with a background in environmental science, gender in development, human rights and club performance. Read more
Nick Barkla
Nick Barkla is an independent actor/writer/director/producer with over fifteen years’ experience in the screen industry. Read more
The Rabble
The Rabble (Kate Davis and Emma Valente) is a visually ambitious, political, feminist and formally experimental theatre company. Read more
Robot Circus
Robot Circus is a small but prolific independent games development studio based in Carlton. Read more
Sibling Architecture
Sibling Architecture is a design office—led by Amelia Borg, Nicholas Braun, Jane Caught, Qianyi Lim and Timothy Moore—that produces new and unexpected spatial outcomes. Read more
Sophia Brous
Sophia Brous is a cross-disciplinary vocalist/musician/performer and artistic director.
Susie Dee
For the past 30 years, Susie Dee has worked extensively in the theatre as a performer, devisor and director, both in Australia and overseas. Read more
Tiffany Parbs
Tiffany Parbs is a conceptual jeweller. She observes herself and others; how people live within their skin, communicate value and present a sense of self to others. Read More
Tristan Meecham
Tristan Meecham is a performance artist who places the social rights of the LGBTI+ community at the core of his work.