Antarctic Arts Fellowship
or Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The Australian Antarctic Division administers the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, enabling those with a non-science focus to experience Antarctica and Australia's activities there, so that they may communicate this unique experience and understanding to other Australians.

The winners are indexed selectively: photographers, artists, songwriters are not included.

Notes

  • 'As a way of informing and educating Australians about Antarctica and Australia's activities there, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) administers the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship enabling those with a non-science focus to experience Antarctica first-hand so that they may communicate this unique experience and understanding to other Australians.'

    Source: Australian Antarctic Dividion website, http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/
    Sighted: 17/11/2011

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2018

recipient Jane Allen

Year: 2016-2017

Year: 2012-2013

Year: 2011-2012

Year: 2007-2008

Works About this Award

Where Borders Break Down : Recollections of a Polar Traveller Elizabeth Leane , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 77 2022; (p. 40-50)

'WHEN EXPLAINING MY Antarctic research to new acquaintances, at a dinner party or a barbeque, I can usually predict the direction of the conversation. First comes surprise and – depending on the crowd – perhaps delight that someone working in the humanities conducts research on the Antarctic region. Then almost always the question follows of whether I have ever visited the remote place that occupies so much of my intellectual life. I understand the impulse behind this question: part polite curiosity, but also genuine intrigue about a part of the world that, even now, comparatively few people have had the chance to experience. It’s a question I would ask, were our positions reversed. But it also raises a whole series of uncomfortable issues.' (Introduction)

Red Heart, Red Ship : Dreams of Land and Sea Favel Parrett , 2022 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 77 2022; (p. 32-39)

'IN 2012, THE universe gave me one of the greatest gifts of my life. I won the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship and the prize was something no amount of money could buy – a bunk on the Australian Antarctic resupply vessel, Aurora Australis, and a voyage to Casey Station in Antarctica.' (Introduction)

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