Creative Fellowship Fund 2024 - Round 2

46 fellowships totalling $1,250,000 have been offered to support artists, practitioners, and collaboratives to develop, innovate and create across three funding pools (Ngā toi Māori, Pacific arts and General arts). We received 533 eligible applications, with a total of $17,877,442 requested.  

Funding type summary

• Nga toi Māori: 13 fellowships were offered totalling $325,000
  $3,150,000 was requested by 86 applicants.
• Pacific arts: 5 fellowships were offered totalling $125,000.
  $1,800,000 was requested by 49 applicants.
• General arts: 28 fellowships were offered totalling $800,000.
  $12,927,442 was requested by 398 applicants.

Artform summary

• 5 - Craft/Object
• 3 - Customary Māori Arts
• 3 - Dance
• 10 - Literature
• 3 - Multidisciplinary arts
• 5 - Music
• 2 - Pacific Heritage Arts
• 3 - Theatre
• 12 - Visual arts

Key themes and round observations

A wide range of practitioners across various career stages and artforms were supported, with the highest artforms represented being Visual arts, Literature, Music and Craft/Object.

Here we provide key themes and observations of the results for the Creative Fellowship fund. This fund focused on support for artists, practitioners, and collaboratives for a period in which to think, explore, create and develop fresh ideas and approaches to their work.

Strong applications under the Creative Impact fund tended to:

• Demonstrate how this time would benefit the practitioner’s practice, providing context to where their practice was currently and articulating the concepts and ideas they wanted to pursue
• Promote innovation, enabling practitioners at varying stages of their practice to explore new genre and take creative leaps
• Include relevant information and supporting material that gave context to the applicant’s practice, creating a fulsome picture of where they were at and where they might go

Recipients of a $25,000 Creative Fellowship

General arts fund

• 5ever Books (Literature)
• Aaron Scythe (Craft and Object art)
• Antonia Barnett-McIntosh (Music)
• Brydee Rood (Visual arts)
• Charlotte Forrester (Music)
• Chris Berthelsen (Visual arts)
• Cindy Jang-Barlow (Dance)
• Daniel Beban (Music)
• Hera Bradburn (Literature)
• Jack Cottrell (Literature)
• Jaime Jenkins (Craft and Object art)
• Janeen Page (Craft and Object art)J
• Jessica Chambers (Music)
• Kelly Ana Morey (Literature)
• Madison Kelly (Visual arts)
• Marcus McShane (Multidisciplinary arts)
• Michelle Duff (Literature)
• Nathan Joe (Theatre)
• Philipa Adam (Literature)
• Shelley Burne-Field (Literature)
• Tania-Maree Roxborogh (Literature)
• Thora Huebner (Theatre)
• Vanessa Arthur (Craft and Object art)
• Yana Dombrowsky-M'Baye (Visual arts)

Ngā toi Māori fund

• Eddie Elliott (Dance)
• Julie Paama-Pengelly (Customary Māori arts)
• Kararaina Nona Rangihau (Literature)
• Megan Tamati-Quennell (Visual arts)
• Melanie Tangaere Baldwin (Visual arts)
• Ngaire Tuhua (Visual arts)
• Pip Devonshire (Customary Māori arts)
• Rangitunoa Black (Customary Māori arts)
• Renata Curtis (Craft and Object art)
• Rim Paul (Literature)
• Robyn Kahukiwa (Visual arts)
• Taisha Tari (Multidisciplinary arts)
• Tame Iti (Visual arts)

Pacific arts fund

• Aloalii Tapu (Dance)
• Charles Kiata (Pacific heritage arts)
• Ebonie Fifita (Pacific heritage arts)
• Sione Monu (Multidisciplinary arts)
• Vela Manusaute (Theatre)

Recipients of a $50,000 Creative Fellowship

General arts fund

• Ana Iti (Visual arts)
• Andrew McMillan (Music)
• Juliet Carpenter (Visual arts)
• Kerry Ann Lee (Visual arts)