Now Calling for 2010 Fellowship Submissions

Closing Date 30 April

The Georges Mora Foundation is pleased to announce a new source of opportunity and support for practicing artists

The Foundation, working in partnership with the State Library of Victoria, and the Alliance Française de Melbourne has established the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship to provide the opportunity for artists to reflect, study and experiment in order to generate new thinking to be developed through their art

During the Fellowship year the Embassy of France and the Alliance Française offer the chosen Fellow assistance in applying for residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris

The Georges Mora Foundation is open to any Australian citizen or resident who has a recognised and reputable body of work in the field of contemporary art. There is no age limit

The Georges Mora Foundation Fellow will be selected by a panel of art and cultural professionals and will be awarded by the Board of the Georges Mora Foundation in June 2010

This Fellowship will attract a stipend of up to $20,000

To apply for this Fellowship, submissions must be received by the Foundation by 5pm on 30 April 2010

To download further information and an application form, click below

2009 Fellowship

Philip Brophy - Fellow

Philip Brophy bio

Philip Brophy is an artist with an extensive and accomplished history of art projects across film, video, sound, installation and performance. Brophy’s work often constitutes reworking pre-existing media, composing film, music and soundscapes, mixing, mastering, installing and presenting audiovisual work in surround sound environments. Brophy is also a highly regarded writer and speaker who writes regularly for different publications as well as publishing books on audiovisual concepts through the British Film Institute. He is currently working on pre-production for two feature films Grey Metal and The Sound of Milk.

Submission
Colour Me Dead proposal

Summary of proposal
Colour Me Dead will be a project based on critical and perceptual research, which will explore images from both high art and popular culture to reveal ways in which artists have obsessively ‘imagineered’ the human body. The research, to be undertaken at the State Library of Victoria and in various galleries and museums in Europe, will form the basis for a suite of animations that will be presented as a multiscreen video installation.

The 2009 Finalists

We congratulate all eleven 2009 Finalists:
Philip Brophy
Darren Sylvester
Lily Hibberd
Dylan Martorell
Jeremy Bakker
Aleks Danko
Sanne Mestrom
Ella Barclay
Peter Hill
Andrea Tu
Matt Hinkley

2008 Fellowship

Cyrus Tang - Fellow

Cyrus Tang bio

Born in Hong Kong, Cyrus Tang immigrated to Australia in 2003 and continued her studies in Melbourne graduating in 2005. In the short time since, Tang has drawn attention to her work through participating in four single and 21 group exhibitions in Australia, Canada and Japan. She is based in Melbourne and the recipient of several awards.

Submission
Nursery

Summary of proposal
Cyrus Tang uses fire and water as agents of loss – in this instance the loss of childhood memory. By displacing and destructing mementos and other material evidence of the past, Tang shows anxiety as a characteristic of immigrants unable to revisit their childhood except in the imagination. Miniaturising the place (the nursery) and the person (herself as a child), Tang re-enacts her desire to regain the ground of her past via her vision of these events. She presented this as a multi-media performance communicating a strong curiosity tied to a desire to restore the self through memory.

The 2008 Finalists

We congratulate all four 2008 Finalists:
Cyrus Tang
Sue Dodd
Sue Ford
Dominic Redfern

2007 Fellowship

Trinh Vu – The Inaugural Fellow

Our sincere congratulations to Trinh Vu – the inaugural Georges Mora Foundation Fellow

Trinh Vu

"My project for the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship is not intended to be a technological research in the sense that it is purely concerned with intervention, innovation and change. It is, however, a catalyst for change in the sense that it seeks to explore new possibilities and ideas from existing perceptions and concepts. My project also argues that we, artists, do not simply use technology as a new given tool and medium, but seek to deal with any aesthetic, cultural and social issues that come along with new developments in technology"

Trinh Vu, December 2007

The 2007 Finalists

We congratulate all ten 2007 Finalists and outline their proposals in the attached papers (in PDF format):

The 2007 Judging Panel

We thank our distinguished judging panel for their contributions to the 2007 Fellowship - Paul Boston, Shane Carmody, John Cattapan, Jacky Healey, Robert Heather, Alison Inglis, Harold Mitchell, Edouard Mornaud, Morry Schwartz, Annemarie Schwirtlich, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Jeffrey Shaw, Susie Shears, David Thomas and Caroline Williams Mora