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The Redmond Barry Fellowship will not be offered in 2020, details.

The Redmond Barry Fellowship is named in honour of Sir Redmond Barry (1813-1880), a founder of the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria. The first Fellowship was awarded in 2004 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sir Redmond Barry's laying of the foundation stones for both institutions on 3 July 1854.

The Fellowship shall be awarded to scholars to facilitate and disseminate research that utilise the superb cultural collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne.

Up to $20,000 shall be awarded to assist with travel, living and research expenses. Fellows will be based at the State Library of Victoria for three to six months. During this period, Fellows will be expected to pursue their own project, present a lecture or short seminar series open to the public, Library and University communities, and submit a brief report at the conclusion of their Fellowship.

Fellowships are open to scholars from Australia and overseas. The Fellow's project may be in any discipline or area in which the Library and the University have strong collections.

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  • The Redmond Barry Fellowship will not be offered in 2020

    For enquiries, please contact Carole Hinchcliff at c.hinchcliff@unimelb.edu.au

    27 May 2020 News

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Current Redmond Barry Fellow

Robyn Oswald-Jacobs and Dr Nanette Carter
Robyn Oswald-Jacobs and Dr Nanette Carter

Dr Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs

Book manuscript and exhibition: Frances Burke, designer and the fabric of modernist Melbourne

Nanette and Robyn's project examines Frances Burke's importance in Australia's design and cultural history, highlighting her textile design and role as a champion of modernist design from the late 1930s.

While Burke's work has been included in exhibitions on modern design, there has been no significant survey exhibition of her work. The project will bring Burke's work to a new generation, and will result in a monograph commissioned by Thames & Hudson and an exhibition at Heide Museum of Art on Burke's work as a leading Australian textile designer.

Dr Nanette Carter is enthusiastic about sharing the history of design with popular audiences through publications and curatorial projects. She has diverse research interests in the field of design, including design history, with particular focus on Australian design and modernism. She is an expert on Australian pioneer modernist design of the inter-war period and post-war DIY culture.

In addition to research publications and curating exhibitions on design, Nanette has acted as a consultant to the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, the Australian National Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, independent filmmakers and curators, and the Office of the Surveyor-General and Land information of the ACT Government.

Robyn Oswald-Jacobs has substantial experience curating exhibitions at significant public museums (Heide) and galleries (RMIT and regional galleries). She is enthusiastic about introducing the public to aspects of design history and material culture that have previously not been presented.

Previous Fellows

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2018

    Dr Jillian Graham
    Beyond the Stave: A Biography of Australian Composer and Arts Activist Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984)

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2017

    Dr Luke Keogh
    Garden state: The Wardian case, Victoria and the global nursery trade.

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2016

    Dr Ross Jones
    Kill or Cure? Tuberculosis, tuberculin and the Melbourne medical scene in the 1890s sought to re-create the story of tuberculin in Melbourne.

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2015

    Professor Jennifer Clark
    Yours faithfully: Writing letters for the Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1952–1961

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2014

    Dr Michael Davis
    The Greg Dening papers: using ethnographic history in writing about Aboriginal/European environmental encounters

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2013

    Marguerita Stephens
    Assistant Protector William Thomas and the Kulin people, 1839–1867: the end of things?

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2012

    David Pear
    Percy Grainger's early years: the formation of an Australian

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2011

    Jim Davidson
    Bigger than little: literary magazine culture in Melbourne between 1940 and 1988

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2010

    Colin Holden
    Rome in Melbourne: the Piranesi collections in the Baillieu and State Libraries

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2009

    Andrew Dodd
    Unknown genius: the architecture of John James Clark

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2008

    Danielle Clode
    A future in flames: wildfire in a changing climate

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2007

    Kristin Otto
    Capital: Melbourne when it was the capital city of Australia 1901–1927

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2006

    Kathleen Fennessy
    Ploughing with one heifer: colonial Victorians learning the land

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2005

    Olivier Burckhardt
    Pencilled lines on poetry

  • Redmond Barry Fellow 2004

    Leonarda Kovacic
    From "lubras" to "belles": representations of Aboriginal women, 1850–1950

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