Dance Australia congratulates Melbourne-based choreographer Antony Hamilton on being selected as one of eight Sydney Myer Creative Fellows for 2014.
The Sydney Myer Creative Fellowships are awarded to talented mid-career artists from dance, literature, the visual arts, performance film and music. Each fellow is awarded a grant of $160 000 over a two-year period.
The other seven fellowships have been awarded to: Vernon Ah Kee, visual artist; Clare Britton, performance; Amy Gebhardt, film; Chloe Hooper, literature; Antony Pateras, music; Emily Sexton, festival direction; and Jeff Sparrow, literature.
To be nominated for a Fellowship, artists and thought leaders must be within seven and fifteen years into their creative practice and meet two criteria: outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage. They are open to artists and arts managers across the entire spectrum of the visual, performing, interdisciplinary, new media and literary arts.
“The talent and contribution of artists in our society is something we take seriously. We actively support and nurture them,” says Andy Myer, Chair, Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships peer review panel. “We want them to have the opportunity to keep working in their chosen field, to keep producing work that challenges our ideas and ways of living as a society. The arts, I believe, are critical to a dynamic and thinking community and I congratulate each of the Fellows for their vision, talent and dedication to their practice.”
Antony Hamilton's Keep Everything. Photo: Jeff Busby.