Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency

The Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency is an annual award that provides a Victorian Aboriginal emerging artist with financial support to explore ideas and develop skills that will realise new iterations of cultural practice and development and build their practice into the future. Established in 2014 by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, the Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency program honours Mr Darvell Hutchinson AM, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his direct stewardship of the Trust’s activities. The Helen Macpherson Smith Trust makes grants to support the immediate and long term needs of the wider community of Victoria across a range of targeted program areas to help build fair, creative and resilient Victorian communities through initiatives that promote positive change.

What are the benefits?

The Fellowship award offers a grant of $40,000, payable in two instalments, with an additional amount up to $5,000, towards the cost of materials.

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• Candidates for the Fellowship must reside in Victoria or have an ancestral connection to Victoria.

Selection criteria:

Artistic practices can include (but are not be limited to) the visual arts; music; creative writing - including fiction, film, theatre and dance performance, and other practices generally understood to be part of the arts and cultural practice. A selection panel will be convened to determine the Fellowship awardee.