Past Scholars

Arts Fund

Recipients 2024

Tess Overmyer

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA Manhattan School of MusicResearch Interest: Saxophone

Sophie Seyd

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA NYU TischResearch Interest: FilmSophie Seyd was raised in Melbourne, Australia and is of Iraqi and English heritage. She received her BA in English Literature and is a current candidate of NYU Tisch’s Graduate Film Programme as a BAFTA Pigott Scholar. Before starting graduate school she lived in London where she worked in post-production on high end drama television for Apple TV, Sister Pictures, Amazon Prime and AMC. She is fascinated by the fractures and eccentricities within people, their relationships, and the places they inhabit.

Sophie Smyth

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA CineStory Foundation Writers RetreatResearch Interest: ScreenwritingSophie Smyth (she/her) is a neurodivergent singer, actor, writer, and (sometimes) dancer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre) from Federation University’s Arts Academy. Career highlights/awards include: Australians in Film’s inaugural UNTAPPED Development Lab; Green Room Award for Best Writing (for The Aspie Hour); Australian Writer’s Guild’s Monte Miller Award runner-up (for Unloveable); Lesley Hall Scholarship. Sophie creates disarmingly vulnerable autobiographical work that balances precariously on the twisted knife-edge of comedy and tragedy. She is passionate about authentic representation, the Oxford comma, and making you laugh. Rep: Mollison Keightley Management. This award affords Sophie the opportunity to study the craft of television writing through panel discussions, workshops, and one-on-one mentoring with industry professionals at the CineStory Foundation Writers Retreat in Idyllwild, California. Post-retreat, she will take up residency at ‘Charlie’s’ in West Hollywood — home to Australians’ in Film — with a focus on her half-hour comedy drama “Unloveable”.

Ashly Zhang

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA New England ConservatoryResearch Interest: PianoAshly Zhang has quickly garnered a reputation as one of Australia's most exciting young pianists. Having just completed the Master of Music Studies degree in Collaborative Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under the tutelage of Dr Theresa Leung, Ashly will graduate in June this year and continue postgraduate studies at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, USA. She completed a Bachelor of Music in Solo Piano under the tutelage of Dr Bernadette Harvey. In 2023, Ashly attended the Aspen Music Festival as a full-scholarship Collaborative Piano Fellow. Additionally, she was the recipient of the Conservatorium's Henderson Travelling Scholarship for Collaborative Piano in 2023. Ashly has collaborated with Alexandra Osborne (Associate Concertmaster, Sydney Symphony), Rachel Siu (Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra), and was invited to perform with Prof. Jeanell Carrigan on her CD, 'Breaking of the Drought' published by Wirripang. Ashly has participated in many of the Australian Youth Orchestra's nationwide chamber music and orchestra programs from 2020-2023, and regularly performs with the Conservatorium's ensembles and fellow students in recitals and festivals.

Natasha Gesto

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA The Juilliard SchoolResearch Interest: Vocal ArtsUruguayan-Australian soprano Natasha Isabella Gesto is a second year Master of Music (Vocal Arts) student and Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, studying under Darrell Babidge. Natasha received her Bachelor of Music and a Graduate Diploma in Music (Opera Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium, where she was a recipient of the Helen Myers Scholarship, Greenberg-Gurney-Jensen Scholarship and Henderson Travellers Scholarship. Natasha is currently performing at the Santa Fe Opera as a first-year apprentice artist where she will be debuting the role of Diedre from Gregory Spears’ The Righteous, in addition to performing as the Dressmaker in Der Rosenkavalier, Magda in La Rondine for the Opera Scenes, and first cover for Annina in La Traviata. Natasha’s recent roles include Nedda (Pagliacci, 2023), Ruth Baldwin (Later the Same Evening, John Musto, The Juilliard School, 2023), La Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro, Prague Summer Nights Festival, 2022), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte, cover performed, 2022), Dame Nellie Melba (Percy – The Opera, 2022). Some of Natasha’s concert soloist performances include Brahm’s German Requiem (2023), Haydn’s Nelson Mass (2022), Poulenc’s Gloria (2021), and Mozart’s Requiem in D minor (2020). Natasha was also selected as a Young Star of Australian Opera in 2022. Natasha is looking forward completing her studies at Juilliard and is excited to see where her craft will take her.

Jane Pankhurst

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA USC Thornton School of MusicResearch Interest: Clarinet PerformanceJane Pankhurst is a classically trained clarinettist from Perth, Western Australia. Jane graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor of Philosophy (First Class Honours) from the University of Western Australia. She is actively involved within the Australian music performance industry, performing regularly with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Perth Symphony Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra and West Australian Youth Orchestra. Jane is mentor for young West Australian clarinettists, and has worked as a clarinet tutor at schools across Perth. In August, Jane will commence a Master of Music (M.M) in Clarinet Performance at the University of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. She will be studying with world renowned clarinet pedagogue Yehuda Gilad. Gilad is considered one of the most innovative, dynamic and respected clarinet teachers within the international music community and has developed the one of the most prestigious and sought-after studios in the world.

Isobel Waters

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USA Pilchuck Glass SchoolResearch Interest: Glass BlowingIsobel Waters is a South Australian emerging artist in her final year studying a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Australian National University (ANU). She has received multiple awards including best young artist at the EGAG Wrap, the ANU/Pilchuck partnership scholarship, the Pilchuck outstanding student scholarship, the 2023 ArtsACT under $5k grant, and the American Australian Association 2024 Arts Fund Grant. Isobel’s work combines glass and ceramic materials with mixed media assemblages, creating visceral anthropomorphic pieces which centre around the human body as a means through which she can experience, analyse, and attempt to understand the world. Described as feminist artwork, Isobel’s pieces often discuss the female lived experience including physical objectification, reproductive oppression, and gender discrimination in healthcare. During her studies at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, WA, Isobel will continue to refine her technical glass blowing skills whilst simultaneously exploring the emotive qualities of glass.

Blake Sutherland

Australian Fashion Foundation Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Creative Direction & Storytelling

Sean McCallum

Australian Fashion Foundation Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Fashion Design

Alex Enticknap

Australian Fashion Foundation Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Fashion & Textiles

Aruna D’Souza

The Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant Awardee
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Art Journalism

Leon Zhan

American Australian Association – AFGNA AusArt Scholar
AUS to USAPratt InstituteResearch Interest: Fine Art

John Harvey

American Australian Association – First Nations Australia Writers Network Writer in Residence USA Fellow
AUS to USABoston UniversityResearch Interest: Writer, Director, Producer

Recipients 2023

Ihab Balla

American Australian Association - AFNGA AusArt Scholar
AUS to USA Bard College Research Interest: Film and Moving Image

Nathan Bryon

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Aspen Music Festival Research Interest: Opera

Natalia Raspopova

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Illinois Research Interest: Orchestra Conducting

Julie Shaw

Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar JUJÚ Showroom, LL.C & Box C. Logistics Research Interest: Fashion Design

Laura Dortmans

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USASUNY New Paltz Research Interest: Ceramics

Gemma Nha

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Juilliard School Research Interest: Opera

Shondelle Pratt

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAEducation Advocate program Research Interest: Intimacy Coordination

Pavle Cajic

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USASan Francisco Conservatory of Music Research Interest: Music Composition

Lewis Burns

Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar Northwest Didge FestResearch Interest: Didgeridoo

Jamie McLennan

Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar Northwest Didge FestResearch Interest: Dance

Jamal Wells

Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar Northwest Didge FestResearch Interest: Dance

Xavier Wells

Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar Northwest Didge FestResearch Interest: Dance

Lauren O’Neill-Butler

The Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant Scholar Research Interest: Art Writing

Recipients 2022

Sophie Payten
Gordi

American Australian Association & APRA-AMCOS Global Professional Development Scholar JagjaguwarResearch Interest: Music Production

Peter Clark

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAGlobal Leaders ProgramResearch Interest: MBA Arts Innovation

Yen Pham

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Iowa Research Interest: MFA Writing

Michaela Burger

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Susan Baston Studio Research Interest: Performing Arts

Imogen McCluskey

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAAmerican Film Institute Conservatory Research Interest: Film/Television Directing

Alex Bateman

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia University Research Interest: Screenwriting and Directing

Charlotte Mars

American Australian Association - Australian International Screen Forum Scholar Research Interest: Filmmaking

Philippa Mott

American Australian Association - AFNGA AusArt Scholar New York University Research Interest: Curatorial Arts

Jessica Lynne

The Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant Research Interest: Writer and Art Critic

Sarah Bishop

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USASecond City Film School Research Interest: Comedy

Ania Freer

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAArt Omi Residency Research Interest: Filmmaking / Photography

Talisha Elger

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAAmerican Film Institute Conservatory Research Interest: Screenwriting

Linda Sok

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USATextile Arts CenterResearch Interest: Tapestry

Julia Corcoran

Screen Australia-American Australian Association-Onbass Fellowship American Film Institute Conservatory Research Interest: Film and Television Production

Benjamin Mason

Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Iowa Research Interest: Creative Writing

Recipients 2021

Mikayla Hogg

American Australian Association – Australian Fashion Foundation (AUSFF) ScholarEyeswoonResearch Interest: Fashion - Creative Director, Photographer, Stylist

Michelle Li

American Australian Association – Australian Fashion Foundation (AUSFF) ScholarResearch Interest: Fashion

Xenia Puskarz Thomas

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Juilliard SchoolResearch Interest: Mezzo Soprano

Victoria Manganiello

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSAustralian Tapestry WorkshopResearch Interest: Weaving

Tania Khouri

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSWestern Sydney University Research Interest: Multi-disciplinary Visual Art

Miles Johnston

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USATuition with Sharon Isbin Research Interest: Classical Guitar

Victoria Lu

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAAmerican Film InstituteResearch Interest: Screenwriting

Lloyd Van’t Hoff

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAYale School of MusicResearch Interest: Clarinet Performance

Kate Rankine

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USANew York UniversityResearch Interest: Musical Theatre Writing

Jessie Hughes

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAJosephmark LAResearch Interest: New Media Art

Jennifer Hou

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USASan Francisco Conservatory of Music Research Interest: Classical Piano

Camilla Caldwell

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAMannes School of Music, The New SchoolResearch Interest: Violinist

Joseph Chan

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of KansasResearch Interest: Master of Music - Orchestral Conducting

Stephen de Filippo

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Composition

Guy Grabowsky

AAA-AFNGA AusArt ScholarParsons School of Design, The New SchoolResearch Interest: Visual Art and Photography

Starr Horton

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSCharles Darwin University Research Interest: Animation

Mikel Moss

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSMonash UniversityResearch Interest: Doctor of Philosophy - Drama Therapy

Miranda Samuels

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe New SchoolResearch Interest: Art theory, Aesthetics and Politics

Gregory Uzelac

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Sydney Research Interest: MFA - Multimedia and Painting

Recipients 2020

William Shi

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAEastman School of Music, University of RochesterResearch Interest: DMA in Performance and Literature - Master of Music in Piano

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California, San DiegoResearch Interest: DMA program in Performance

Raeden Richardson

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAIowa Writers' Workshop, The University of IowaResearch Interest: Writing

Nayib Felix

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSThe University of MelbourneResearch Interest: MFA in Drama

Andrew Strano

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USANew York UniversityResearch Interest: Musical Theatre Writing MFA

Alberto Di Troia

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Southern CaliforniaResearch Interest: Writing for Screen and Television MFA

Leonard Weiss

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAPeabody Institute, Johns Hopkins UniversityResearch Interest: Conducting

Ziggy Johnston

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Juilliard School, New YorkResearch Interest: Master of Music in Classical Guitar

Olivia Chindamo

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Juilliard School, New YorkResearch Interest: Jazz Voice Master of Music

Jessica Hitchcock

AAA Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Performance and songwriting

Kim Clark

American Australian Association – Australian Fashion Foundation (AUSFF) ScholarAUS to USA Research Interest: Fashion Design

Dominic Roylance

American Australian Association – Australian Fashion Foundation (AUSFF) ScholarAUS to USA Research Interest: Fashion Design

Kai Wasikowski

AAA-AFNGA AusArt ScholarColumbia University School of ArtsResearch Interest: Visual Art

Linda Michael

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAParsons, The New School - New York, NYResearch Interest: Arts Publishing - AAS Graphic Design Degree

Yvette Keong

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
AUS to USAThe Juilliard School - New York, NYResearch Interest: Master of Music (Voice - Soprano)

Rulan Tangen

AAA Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSCollaboration (Indigenous Dance Techniques) with NAISDA Dance College in NSWResearch Interest: Native American Dance & Movement

Frank Buffallo Hyde

AAA Indigenous Arts Fund Scholar
USA to AUSCollaboration with Reko Rennie in MelbourneResearch Interest: Native American Visual Art & Literature

Recipients 2019

Mi-kaisha Masella

AAA-Nomad Two Worlds Foundation Indigenous Arts Scholar

Chenoa Deemal

AAA Indigenous Arts Scholar

Nicholas Smith

AAA-AFNGA AusArt Scholar

Jasmine Pilcher

AAA Arts Fund Scholar

Leticia Ropert

AAA Arts Fund Scholar

Jack Quirk

AAA Arts Fund Scholar

Lucy O’Brien-English

AAA Arts Fund Scholar

Meg White

AAA Arts Fund Scholar

Julian Day

AAA Arts Fund Scholar

Recipients 2018

Graham Akhurst

AAA-Nomad Two Worlds Foundation Indigenous Arts Scholar

Darlene Johnson

AAA-AISF Scholar

Helena Dong

AAA-AUSFF Scholar

Amanda Nichols

AAA-AUSFF Scholar

Lucy Ashley (Wanapuygnu)

AAA Indigenous Arts Scholar

Thomas Kelly

AAA Indigenous Arts Scholar

William Gardiner

AAA Arts Fund ScholarWilliam Gardiner is an Australian composer currently studying at the Yale School of Music, where he is mentored by David Lang. In addition to formal studies, he has also worked in sound engineering and electronic production with Ben Frost at Bedroom Community/Greenhouse Studios Iceland, with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2017 he was commissioned by the composer John Adams and his partner Deborah O’Grady to write a cello concerto for the Berkeley Symphony and cellist Tessa Seymour, to celebrate Adams’ 70th birthday year. Also in 2017, the LA-based chamber ensemble wild Up premiered ALL IS FOR THE BEST—a video opera co-created with DRELLER, and still under development—as part of The Industry’s First Take 2017program.

Courtenay Cleary

AAA Arts Fund ScholarCourtenay is currently on scholarship at The Juilliard School in New York where she is completing her Master of Music degree with violin professor Naoko Tanaka. She recently received her Bachelor of Music degree with first-class honours from the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with professor Maureen Smith. In 2017 Courtenay performed as a soloist for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and other distinguished guests at Westminster Abbey for the Royal Commonwealth Service. This was broadcast live on BBC television. In 2018 Courtenay again performed for the HM the Queen at Buckingham Palace for the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. She has also performed as a soloist at prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall, St James’ Piccadilly, the Regent Hall, Colston Hall and the Lincoln Centre. She recently performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in Sydney and will be returning to Australia in 2019 to give the Australian premiere of David Lang’s Mystery Sonatas. She is a Tait Memorial Trust and ABRSM scholar, and was recently awarded second prize at the Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition as well as the the Dame Joan Sutherland Award from the American Australian Association and the Guy Parsons Award from the Portland House and Australian Music Foundations.

Benjamin Heim

AAA Arts Fund ScholarBen Heim is an Australian composer and creative technologist currently based in New York City. His work spans contemporary classical music, film scoring, live immersive experiences, audiovisual performance, and virtual reality. He has composed music for banking apps in the UK, virtual reality games in Australia, documentaries in New York, audiovisual mapping works in Iceland, and for contemporary classical ensembles across the world. In his audiovisual installations Heim creates dynamic systems in which strong two-way connections are forged between auditory and visual components. This produces synesthetic experiences as crosstalk between the senses multiplies. Heim's works have been performed across Europe, Australia and the USA in events such as Tallinn Music week (Estonia) and Splice Festival (UK). He has collaborated with many organisations to create immersive events, including the London Contemporary Orchestra, and at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik.

Angela Little

AAA Arts Fund ScholarAngela Little is a screen composer from Sydney, Australia. Her first major credit was Baz Luhrmann’s film “Australia”, for which she composed Additional Music and co-wrote and sang the film’s love song, which was nominated for numerous national and international awards. Since then, Angela has lent her talents to a diverse range of projects, including collaborating with Oscar-nominated composer Marco Beltrami as a vocal soloist on 2016 blockbuster “Gods of Egypt” and composing the score for AACTA-nominated feature documentary “Zach’s Ceremony”, which also won the audience award for Best Documentary at both Sydney and Melbourne International Film Festivals in 2016.

Belle Bassin

AAA Arts Fund Scholar
Belle Bassin is an experimental visual artist. In her practice, she pursues new formats and modes of presentation where she exhibits within urban and biological spaces, as well as within galleries and museums. Situated at the intersection of sculpture and performance, her work often fixates upon the sentient dimension of color and form. Her work is currently concerned with early female Abstraction, the psychic space of visions, and the occupation of bodies and space by invisible forces.

Belle Bassin has exhibited work at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne; and University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, among others.

Zoe Freisburg

AAA Arts Fund ScholarZoe commenced her violin studies at the age of four under the direction of her mother, Helena Munoz. After completing her Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium with Michele Walsh, she studied at the Australian National Academy of Music under Dr. Robin Wilson. A passionate solo performer, Zoe has appeared as a soloist in Sibelius’s Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Mozart’s A Major Concerto with Orchestra Victoria. In addition to her concerto performances, Zoe is a devoted recitalist touring to China in 2016 with renowned UK pianist Alexander Ullman. A recipient of numerous awards, Zoe has won the prestigious Kendall National Violin Competition and the Australian Classical Music Competition. She was also selected as a finalist in the Freedman Fellowships and in Symphony Australia’s Young Performer’s Awards. In 2018, Zoe commenced a Performer Diploma at Indiana University. This course will allow Zoe to study with one of the world’s best violin pedagogues, Mauricio Fuks as well as experiencing IU’s ability of creating excellent and well-rounded artists.

Svetlana Bailey

AAA Arts Fund ScholarTouched by occasions that are silently dissonant, that with a different context seem surreal, Svetlana Bailey builds installations and photographs what she terms in-camera collage. Born in St Petersburg in 1984, Svetlana is represented by Artereal Gallery Sydney and has been an artist in residence at the ISCP in New York, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Mountain School in Los Angeles. Her work is held in the Australian Government’s Artbank collection and the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and for the last two years running was awarded the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward prize. Svetlana received her BFA from UNSW and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. The AAA grant will support Svetlana in a four week residency at the Vermont Studio Center where she will experiment with mediums in large scale drawings as part of a new body of work.

Celeste Cebra Kotevich

AAA Arts Fund ScholarCéleste Cebra is an emerging lens-based artist from Sydney, Australia who resides in Chicago, USA. In 2015, Cebra graduated with a BFA in Photomedia and the Joel Corrigan Memorial Photography Award from the National Art School, Sydney. In 2016 she undertook a residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 2017 Cebra unveiled a series created during her residency for her inaugural solo exhibition Quotidian Metropolis. She's a 2018 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award finalist and a Fisher’s Ghost Award finalist. Cebra is a MFA candidate in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Daniel Le

AAA Arts Fund ScholarAustralian pianist and American Australian Association 2018 Arts Fund Scholar, Daniel Tang Le, has enjoyed an international career spanning four continents. Beginning his piano studies at the age of three, Daniel received a music scholarship to the Melbourne Grammar School at the age of eleven. By fourteen, he attended the Australian National Academy of Music Young Academy Program and gave his first live radio performances on the Australian Broadcasting Company and 3MBS. After Daniel’s debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 2015, he was immediately re-engaged for two consecutive seasons. Other performances have brought Daniel to venues including Lincoln Center in New York, Melbourne Recital Center, Queensland Performing Arts Theatre, and Lyric Theatre in Australia, Waseda University in Japan, and Engadin Summer Piano Academy in Switzerland. Currently based in New York City, Daniel is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music

Ashleigh McArthur

AAA Arts Fund ScholarAshleigh McArthur is a filmmaker currently pursuing an M.F.A in Documentary Film at Stanford University. She is a graduate of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and the recipient of an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant. Her first student film, Pat’s Studio, premiered at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art with the Antenna Documentary Festival and screened at festivals in Australia and the US. Prior to her filmmaking career Ashleigh spent eight years in the Australian foreign service, where she contributed to public policy on security, human rights and climate change and represented Australia in Solomon Islands, Mexico and the US.

Alice Heyward

AAA Arts Fund ScholarAlice Heyward is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her choreographic work has been presented at Dancehouse, Melbourne (Keir Choreographic Award), Murray White Room (Melbourne), Sophiensaele (Tanztage festival, Berlin), Kunsthaus KuLe (Performing Arts Festival, Berlin), adastudio at Uferstudios (Berlin), Next Wave festival (Melbourne), Bus Projects (Melbourne), The Watermill Center (USA), RMIT Design Hub (Melbourne), MPavilion (Melbourne) and PSAS (Perth). This year, Alice is performing Xavier Le Roy’s Still Untitled and Temporary Title (2015) at the Centre National de la Danse - Pantin (Paris)and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and is collaborating with Jacqui Shelton for an exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne). She will soon commence a new creation process with New York-based Cypriot choreographer Maria Hassabi. Alice is about to commence a Klein Technique ™ Teacher Certification program with Susan Klein in NYC with the support of the American Australian Association.

Alberta Khoury

AAA Arts Fund ScholarCurrently residing in NYC, Khoury began her undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School with 2-time Grammy award winner Sharon Isbin, awarded a full scholarship by the Augustine Foundation. Now completing her Master of Music degree in Juilliard’s Accelerated Program, she serves as a Student Ambassador for Juilliard. Khoury enjoys pursuing her project Music in Every Corner, playing music in the offices as well as various parts of the building to bring music to the staff and community. Other community engagement experiences include her collaboration with MacArthur Fellow Vijay Gupta, performing music at a homeless shelter. Khoury was invited to present a talk on community engagement as well as share a performance at the Lincoln Center all-staff meeting, Kaplan Penthouse.  She has been heard at an event honoring Placido Domingo graced by Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain at the Metropolitan Club. Khoury is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

Caroline Garcia

AAA-AFNGA AusArt Scholar

Recipients 2017

Jonathan Homsey

AAA Arts Fund ScholarFootscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC)Research Interest: Street Dance, Visual Art and Social EngagementJonathan Homsey is an arts maker and manager interested in the intersection of street dance, visual art and social engagement; he has a passion for community outreach using the moving body as a source of empowerment. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States of America, he immigrated to Australia in 2010 where his award-winning choreographic practice has evolved from a theatrical context to interdisciplinary installations across Australasia and Japan. Working with mediums from ceramics to augmented reality, Jonathan’s choreographic and curatorial practice uses street and queer dance movement to inform his works that explore utopian worlds and emotional connection. From choreographing for Australian pop star George Maple to Australia's flagship circus company Circus Oz, Jonathan has shared dance as a curator and maker across commercial avenues and iconic Australian institutions including the Melbourne Museum.

Alexandra Rigby

AAA Arts Fund ScholarAtlantic Acting SchoolResearch Interest: Acting

Victor Avila

AAA Arts Fund ScholarCarnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Interest: Master of MusicVictor began his tertiary violin studies with Goetz Richter and Ole Bohn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2012 and graduated with First Class Honours. In July 2015 Victor participated in a tour to Italy with the Sydney Conservatorium where he performed in a piano trio which gave recitals in Verona and Mantua. Victor was selected as part of an internship with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra of Australia to perform Puccini's La Boheme at the Hanoi Opera House in Hanoi, Vietnam. Victor is now a casual violinist with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Victor has given solo recitals at international venues including the Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, Norway. The American-Australian Arts Fund will assist Victor in his study towards a Master of Music degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Philippa Kane

AAA Arts Fund ScholarQUTResearch Interest: Drama
Philippa studied Drama at QUT, Brisbane, and has been working as a theatrical producer in London, since 2013. She has worked with both new and established companies producing theatre in London, throughout the UK and internationally. Philippa is a 2015 Stage One alumna.

For BeFrank Theatre Company she produced a tour for the British Forces in Germany. This was the first ever theatrical tour of it’s kind. She has also worked with The Reversed Shakespeare Company, producing a sell-out run of a gender-reversed “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Her other experience includes working with Half Moon Children’s Theatre, Icarus Theatre Collective and DumbWise Theatre Company.

Justin Sterling

AAA Arts Fund ScholarParsons School of DesignResearch Interest: Visual Artist MFAI am a visual artist from Texas currently based in Brooklyn. I attended the Parsons School of Design in NYC for an MFA in Fine Arts and graduated in May 2017. I make art out of found objects from cities. I explore how everyday objects shape our social behavior through history and politics. My aim is to unravel the way we view power, authority, and control by revealing various truths about urban ecosystems and American poverty. Many of my artistic propositions include interventions in public as well as the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation, and performance.  Much of the work has an underlying tone of violence that I use to create tension inside of the status quo and challenge my audience to think critically. It has always come naturally to me to collect neglected objects and attempt to recycle them. I choose to recycle an object based on its metaphorical or institutional significance, attempting to give them new life and reclaim them from their socio-political censor. In my process, I embrace, provoke, and appropriate to explore the ways violence and risk have a stake in what it means to be a responsible citizen.

Cat Commander

AAA Arts Fund ScholarMount St. Mary's UniversityResearch Interest: Film and Television MFACat is a writer and film maker from Perth, Western Australia. She has a Master of Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts (2013) and is currently a student in the Film and Television MFA program at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles. Cat’s play, The Last Time I Saw Richard, premiered at The Bakehouse Theatre in Adelaide in 2016. Previous work, You Took The Stars was performed in Perth and Melbourne (2014/2015), following Red Stitch Theatre featuring her short play, Melting, in Play List (2014). Cat holds a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Western Australia (2004). Cat is thrilled to have the opportunity to adapt her stage works for the big screen.

Recipients 2016

Evan Atwell-Harris

Dame Joan Sutherland FundJuilliard SchoolResearch Interest: Master of Music - Jazz Studies

Paul Hodge

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew YorkResearch Interest: Writer-composer Mentorship with Alain BoublilPaul Hodge is a writer-composer from Brisbane.  His recent work, CLINTON THE MUSICAL, was performed Off-Broadway, at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, in London and Edinburgh and will have its Australian Premiere in 2016 at Black Swan State Theatre Company. CLINTON received a New York Times Critics Pick and nominations for Best New Musical and Best Book of a Musical in New York and Edinburgh.  His other large-scale work, TERRA AUSTRALIS, was shortlisted for the QLD Premier’s Drama Award 2012-13. He is about to complete a PhD in Music Composition at the University of Queensland. Awards include the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship, Margaret Nickson Prize and 4MBS Musica Viva Chamber Music Prize.

Liesl Pfeffer

Dame Joan Sutherland FundVermont Studio Center, VermontResearch Interest: Visual ArtistLiesl Pfeffer is a visual artist from Brisbane, Australia, living in Brooklyn, NY.  In her art practice she constructs imagined and real places and objects through photo-media collage. She holds a Bachelor of Photography from the Queensland College of Art (2005). Pfeffer was resident at The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (2015), The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (2014) and in August 2016 will be resident at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, supported by the Australian American Association’s Dame Joan Sutherland Fund. Recently she exhibited at Ortega y Gasset, Wassaic Project, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Trestle Projects and Chashama (all New York, USA). Pfeffer was a mentor in the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program in 2015.

Lani Asuncion

Dame Joan Sutherland FundBilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives, New South WhalesResearch Interest: Visual ArtistLani Asuncion is an interdisciplinary artist working with transmedia storytelling to explore her identity as an Asian American woman. She is an artist-in-residence alumna of Caldera Arts Center, I-Park, CAC Woodside, Elsewhere Living Museum, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Bilpin International Grounds for Creative Initiatives (BigCi). Asuncion’s work has been screened in Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM. As well as Nights of Festivals: Moving Image at Nottingham Contemporary, UK; and was included in Aspect EZ: Vol. 4, Déjà Vu a DVD printing by ASPECT: The Chronicle for New Media in Boston, MA. Her work was included in Another Athens Film Programme at SUPERMARKET Independent Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden hosted by Interviewroom11 (Edinburgh) & SNEHTA (Athens).

James Stuart

Dame Joan Sutherland FundSchool of Visual Arts, New YorkResearch Interest: Documentary Film MakerJames Stuart is a multi-disciplinary documentary filmmaker coming from a strong background in graphic design and musical performance. Having grown up abroad, between Australia, the United States, Indonesia and Europe, James Possesses a unique perspective. More than anything, this immersion in different cultures informs his practice. James is currently developing his abilities as a nonfiction-storyteller at the School of Visual Arts MFA in Social Documentary in New York City. He is currently working to explore the possibilities at the intersection of different disciplines, where design and motion graphics can meet documentary filmmaking and enable new possibilities for non-fiction storytelling. James hold a bachelor of Visual Communications with first class honours from the University of Technology Sydney.

Kieran Swann

Dame Joan Sutherland FundWesleyan University, ConnecticutResearch Interest: CuratorKieran Swann is an artist, curator, producer, and facilitator; with a background in both performance and visual art. His work for gallery spaces manifests as spare, minimalist gestures or tasks; always site-responsive and often to reframe or bring into focus the history of sites or bodies, and create a space for meditation on these. In experimental theatre and contemporary performance, Kieran collaborates with The Good Room, creators of I Should Have Drunk More Champagne (Metro Arts 2013), I Want To Know What Love Is (Brisbane Festival/QTC 2014, Brisbane Powerhouse 2015), and the forthcoming The Forgiveness Project (working title) – a body of contemporary work acclaimed for accessibility, innovative process, striking imagery, and meaningful community engagement. He has created work with Brisbane Festival, Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane Powerhouse, Next Wave, La Boite Theatre, Conical Inc, Schoolhouse Studios. His body of work has received national acclaim; ABC Radio has described his work as “nothing short of brilliant”, and RealTime has noted him a “fabulous liar in a mundane world”. In 2016, Kieran has received a fellowship for postgraduate study at Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, in Connecticut USA.

Clare and Matt

Dame Joan Sutherland FundWatermill Center, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistsMatt Prest and Clare Britton have individual arts practices that traverse performance and visual art.  They have a history of working together on a number of significant collaborative projects. These works include the award winning productions Whelping Box (with Branch Nebula), Hole in the Wall and The Tent. As a partnership, Clare and Matt aim to make work that puts the 'experience' on an equal footing with the 'object' of the artwork.  Clare and Matt work within an interdisciplinary, experimental process, reinforced by strategies of design and collaboration.  The Dame Joan Sutherland Fund will support their upcoming residency at The Watermill Centre.

Bridget Mackey

Dame Joan Sutherland FundUniversity of Southern California, CaliforniaResearch Interest: ScreenwritingBridget Mackey is a Melbourne playwright and dramaturg. Bridget’s play The Exact Dimensions of Hell was read at the Melbourne Theatre Company as part of Cybec Electric 2016. Other plays by Bridget include: Exit Everything (with Georgie McAuley, Little Sister Projects 2015), Kindness (Flight Festival 2015) and Hose (MKA 2012). Bridget is a founding member of Lonely Company and is Literary Manager for five.point.one. She has worked as a dramaturg on a number of projects including Blessed by Fleur Kilpatrick and The Lake by Ben Brooker. In 2014 Bridget undertook a dramaturgy internship with Playwriting Australia at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Bridget holds a Master of Writing for Performance from the VCA (2013) and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) from Flinders University (2007).

Amelia Wallin

Dame Joan Sutherland FundCenter for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New YorkResearch Interest: CuratorAmelia Wallin is an Australian curator and current MA candidate at The Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. In 2015 she was the Curatorial Fellow at Performa working on the inaugural Australian ‘Pavilion Without Walls’ and was in-residence at Wassaic Projects (NY) researching alternative curatorial models and writing practices. Amelia has held positions at numerous Sydney organisations including Biennale of Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Performance Space, Vivid Ideas, and Performing Lines. She was co-curator of Tiny Stadiums Live Art Festival (2012-14) and has been involved in the set up and directing of several artist-run-spaces; Firstdraft (2012-13), Sydney Guild (2012-14) and The Paper Mill (2009-11). She holds a Bachelor of Art & Art Theory from the University of New South Wales.

Liang Luscombe

Dame Joan Sutherland FundVirginia Commonwealth UniversityResearch Interest: Master of Fine Art Liang was the recipient of an Australia Council JUMP Mentorship in 2013 and was mentored by Angela Brennan. She has also held residencies at the Australia Council Studio, British School at Rome in 2013 and PICA Studio Residency in 2011. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Fine Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: Table Talk, Box Copy, Brisbane, 2016; A Tall Painter, Yarra Flats, Melbourne, 2016; Three Sailors, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne, 2014; Non in Casa, 157 Blyth St, Melbourne, 2013; Bauhaus Fisher Price, TCB art inc., Melbourne, 2012. Selected group exhibitions include: Footnotes, The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, 2015; No fond return of love, I.C.A.N., Sydney, 2014; Dear Masato, all at once, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2014; brimming dissolution, buoyant expenditure, RM, Auckland, 2014; Synonyms for Sincerity, Alaska Projects, Sydney, 2013; Please be quiet, The British School at Rome, Rome, 2013; Navel Gazing, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2013; Fresh Paint, Sutton Projects, Melbourne, 2012; Ménage a Trois, XYZ Gallery Tokyo, 2012.

Samantha McCulloch

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York Art Residency and Studios Foundation, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistSamantha McCulloch is currently undertaking a three-month residency at the NARS Foundation in New York City. She is trained as an artist and curator and has exhibited in Australia and abroad. She was selected as one of Next Wave Festival’s emerging curators and curated a multi-site exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Recent exhibitions include: Ground(s), c3, 2016; Concerted Efforts, Westspace, 2015 and From where I was, The Substation Gallery, 2015. Practice traces interactions between matter and site. Her photographs and sculptures explore the world as a series of becomings, a mesh of human, animal and plant interactions.

Lucy Turnbull

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & SculptureResearch Interest: Master of Fine ArtsLucy has a background in drawing and painting, she studied at Adelaide Central School of Art and graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art, Honours in 2010. She has exhibited in galleries and public spaces around Australia and locally, including Victoria Square, Adelaide Festival Centre, Praxis Artspace and Adelaide Central Gallery. Lucy is also passionate about teaching and has worked for a number of organisations, most recently as Artist Assistant at Carclew's Pom Pom Children's Contemporary Art Space in Davoren Park and a Drawing lecturer at Adelaide Central  School of Art in Glenside. Lucy will be undertaking a Masters of Fine Art at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Christy Gast

Dame Joan Sutherland FundPerformance Studies International Conference, VictoriaResearch Interest: Visual ArtistChristy Gast (New York) is an artist whose work across media reflects an interest in issues of economics and the environment, and the role of content in giving meaning to the experience and form of the work. She has exhibited at MoMA/P.S.1, Performa, Artists Space and Regina Rex in New York; PAMM, Bass Museum of Art, de la Cruz Collection, Locust Projects, and Gallery Diet in Miami; Mass MoCA; High Desert Test Sites; and the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris. She has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation and the South Florida Cultural Consortium, and is faculty at Hartford Art School’s new Nomad9 MFA program.

Nicholas Vardanega

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNYUResearch Interest: Masters in MusicNominated for "Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year" in the 2015 Bell Awards, guitarist/composer Nic Vardanega is an emerging voice on the Australian jazz scene. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Nic has been a sought after musician, performing with Australian Jazz icon Mike Nock as well as being a regular member of rising star pianist Francesca Prihasti’s Quartet. Nic has recorded alongside first call New York City musicians including drummers Ulysses Owens Jr and Rodney Green as well as bassists Orlando le Fleming and Marco Panascia. His debut album ‘Invenro’ was released in late 2014 to critical acclaim. The album featured all original compositions by Vardanega and explored music influenced by his Italian heritage.

Persia Blue Toll

Dame Joan Sutherland FundSITI Conservatory, NYCResearch Interest: ActressPersia Blue is an Australian actress of both screen and stage. She has studied with the Atlantic Acting School- New York, SITI company- Saratoga and Ensemble Studios- Australia. Theatre work includes: Charitable Intent- The Jack Manning Trilogy (Ensemble Theatre) Grace Land and Asleep on the Wind (Operating Theatre) Stairwell (Old Fitzroy Theatre), Telling Tales (HGR) Hayes Gordon Repertory Theatre Company’s Theatre in Education Shakespeare Program: Love, Death and a Little Madness NSW tour: 2009 and 2010. Australian television credits: Home and Away (Network Seven), Dance Academy (ABC), Housos Series 2 (SBS). Australian feature films: Housos Vs Authority and Fat Pizza Vs Housos. Persia’s short films including: Circe (Dungog Film Festival 2010), A Broadband God, Report (Pop Films Australia), 2012 (NAFA)

Emma Cillekens

Dame Joan Sutherland FundStudio 20: Digital FirstResearch Interest: Masters in Arts (Journalism)When Emma Cillekens found out talking too much could become a career she was sold! Emma is a radio presenter from Queensland, Australia, who has had a rich career across many facets of the media including radio, television, print and online. Most recently she’s worked for national public radio broadcaster, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) as breakfast radio host. She’s presented breakfast, morning, drive and weekend programs to a local and state audience and has provided content to a national and international audience. She has freelanced for the BBC and several other media organisations. Emma has always had a nose for adventure, so when NYU (New York University) offered her a scholarship to be part of the prestigious Studio 20: Digital First master’s degree she jumped at it.

Chelsea Giles

Dame Joan Sutherland FundUniversity of California, Los AngelesResearch Interest: Masters in Fine ArtsBorn and raised in Sydney, Australia, Chelsea Giles is a self-professed storyteller and rising Australian talent. A string of roles on some of Australia's most loved programs in combination with a drive to continually improve her skills saw Chelsea win a lead role in her first feature film at 16. While still in High School, she achieved associate diplomas in both Performance, and Speech and Drama teaching from the Trinity College of London. After working with acting coaches Ivana Chubbuck, Howard Fine, and Elizabeth Kemp, Chelsea commenced a Masters of Fine Arts (Theatre) at UCLA’s School of Film, Theatre, and Television with the support of the DJSF in 2016.

Ashley Carter

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNorthwestern UniversityResearch Interest: Masters in MusicAshley Carter was born in Mt Isa in central Queensland, Australia, and began playing the Trombone at age 12. Learning from his Grandfather, after only playing for 3 years, Ashley was awarded his Associate Diploma in Music (A.mus.A) at the age of 15 from the Australian Music Examination Board (AMEB). After graduating from Shalom Catholic College in Bundaberg he moved to Brisbane to study a Bachelor of Music Performance and Graduate Diploma of Music Studies with Benjamin Marks (ELISION) and Jason Redman (Principal Trombone, Queensland Symphony Orchestra) at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University.  In 2012 Ashley moved to Melbourne, Australia, to commence his first year at The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) under the instruction of Michael Bertoncello, Trombone player of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Ashley has been involved in a number of youth ensembles including the Queensland Youth Orchestra, Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute, Tasmania Discovery Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestras.  Ashley has performed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the New South Wales Police Band.

Carly Grace

Dame Joan Sutherland FundSeattle, WAResearch Interest: Visual Thinking Strategies Advanced PracticumCarly Grace is an artist and visual arts educator based in Melbourne, Australia. She specialises in interpretation education and has an extensive experience in designing and delivering diverse education and public programs within museums, community arts and diverse educational settings. She is currently the Education Manager at Heide Museum of Modern Art where she specialises in training educators in Visual Thinking Strategies. Carly’s formal qualifications include a Master in Cultural Heritage Deakin University, Diploma of Education (Secondary, Visual Art) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from Monash University. Her philosophy for visual arts’ education is connecting people with the opportunities that art making and engagement in art culture can have in enriching their lives.

Ann Carew

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York International Music FestivalResearch Interest: MusicianAnn Carew is a young musician from Brisbane, Australia. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Music (Honours)/Bachelor of Science, at the University of Queensland. She is majoring in violin performance, and has recently travelled with them to New York to take part in the New York University Winter Strings Conference. On violin, she is a member of the Brisbane Regional Youth Orchestra, the Queensland Youth Symphony and the UQ Symphony Orchestra as well as playing in many chamber ensembles around Brisbane. The Dame Joan Sutherland Fund will support her upcoming tour to America with the Brisbane Regional Youth Orchestra, to take part in the 2017 New York International Music Festival held at Carnegie Hall.

Michael Grebla

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew England ConservatoryResearch Interest: Masters in Music CompositionMichael is a composer from Perth Western Australia and has recently commence a Masters of Music at the New England Conservatory, Boston. Michael was awarded the 2016 General Sir John Monash Scholarship and received a merit based entry scholarship to NEC, which in addition to the DJSF grant support his studies in Boston. He studied a bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Music Composition with First Class Honours at the University of Western Australia. During his time at UWA, Michael received the JM Wolff, Knight and WA Wagner Society’s Bayreuth music scholarships and was awarded the Bryant Stokes Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence by the University. Before leaving for Boston, Michael was the founder and director of “Music at St George’s College”, an extremely successful chamber music initiative based in Perth.

Recipients 2015

Jason Wing

Dame Joan Sutherland FundResidency at International Studio & Curatorial Program, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistJason is a Sydney-based artist who strongly identifies with his Chinese and Aboriginal heritage. Calling into question our understanding of history and of our current socio-political reality, Wing repurposes everyday objects and imagery, creating works that are both visually confronting and deceptively simple. Jason holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Graphic Design, Sydney Graphics College. He has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Isabelle Freeman

Dame Joan Sutherland FundMannes College, The New School for Music, New YorkResearch Interest: SopranoIsabelle is a soprano from Perth, currently studying at Mannes College in New York City. Isabelle completed a Bachelor of Music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. During her first year at Mannes, Isabelle was accepted into the Young Artist opera program, performing scenes from Verdi’s Falstaff (Alice), and the roles of Ciesca and Alms Collector in a double bill of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica. In 2014 Isabelle was an Emerging Young Artist with the West Australian Opera, and was the recipient of the Bendat Scholarship.

Bridget Balodis

Dame Joan Sutherland FundElevator Repair Service Theater, New YorkResearch Interest: DirectorBridget trained as a director at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. She is interested in new Australian writing and is co-director of experimental theatre company NO SHOW. In 2014 she was part of the MTC’s Women Directors Program. She has presented work with Next Wave Festival, La Mama and NORPA and been assistant director on work at the Malthouse, STC and with Bell Shakespeare.

Morgan Balfour

Dame Joan Sutherland FundElevator Repair Service Theater, New YorkResearch Interest: SingerMorgan graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, with a Bachelor of Music in Advanced Performance, Classical Voice. Roles performed include Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen, Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Sandrina from selections of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. Her concert experience comprises of the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Soprano I in Bach’s Magnificat, and Britten’s War Requiem.

Elizabeth Nowell

Dame Joan Sutherland FundBrooklyn Museum, New YorkResearch Interest: Curator & WriterLiz is an independent curator, writer and project manager. She has worked for a diverse range of arts organizations including Country Arts SA, College of Fine Arts and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. Currently she lectures in Contemporary Curatorial Practice at Sydney College of the Arts and manages a number of artist studios. Last year she co-presented SafARI, a major fringe exhibition of the Biennale of Sydney.

Shanie Klas

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNorthwestern University, IllinoisResearch Interest: PercussionistEven before walking, Shanie would use kitchen utensils as sticks, and her brother's head as a drum. Shanie was destined to be a percussionist. Since then she has completed a Bachelor of Music on full scholarship from Monash University where she won the concerto competition in consecutive years. Other prizes include first place in the Australian Marimba Competition (2015), National semi-finalist in both the ABC Young Performer Award (2012) and the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition (2015, 2012). She has performed as soloist with the Adelaide Symphony and the Monash Academy Orchestras. Shanie has toured Europe as a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and regularly performs with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She is currently studying a Masters of Music Performance at Northwestern University.

Petrina Hicks

Dame Joan Sutherland FundArtist Residency at Kala Art Institute, CaliforniaResearch Interest: Visual ArtistPetrina Hicks utilises the seductive and glossy language of commercial photography to create artworks that probe at the false promise of perfection, exploring photography's ability to both create and corrupt the process of seduction and consumption. Petrina has exhibited widely though solo and groups shows in Australia, Europe, USA and Asia. Her work was recently selected to be shown at; Volta NY 2015, 17th International Videobrasil, Brazil, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China and Art Platform, Los Angeles. Petrina's works belong to various national and international collections including: National Gallery of Australia, AGNSW, Queensland Art Gallery, Tweed River City Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria.

Soda_Jerk

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual Artist
Formed in Sydney, Australia in 2002, Soda_Jerk is a two-person art collective comprised of Dan and Dominique Angeloro. Working exclusively with sampled material, they create rogue histories and counter-mythologies in the form of video installations, cut-up texts, and live video essays. Recent exhibitions and performances have been held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Pioneer Works, NYC, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin; The Substation, Melbourne; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. They have undertaken residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2010-11), Flux Factory, NYC (2012-13), International Studio and Curatorial Program, NYC (2013-14), the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool (2015) and are currently artists in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space on Governors Island.

Sebastian Dunn

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNorthwestern University, IllinoisResearch Interest: MusicianGrowing up within a musical family in rural New South Wales, Sebastian was encouraged to pursue and perform on many instruments from a young age, including percussion, piano, guitar and French Horn. After school, Sebastian moved to Sydney to commence a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance on French horn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying with Andrew Bain, now the current principal horn of the LA Philharmonic, and Ben Jacks, the current principal horn of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 Sebastian received a full tuition scholarship to pursue a Professional Performance Program at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in Melbourne, which after completion saw him return to Sydney to work as a freelance musician. Sebastian enjoyed success as a young freelance horn player, performing in a variety of different orchestral contexts including a three-month season of the musical South Pacific, pop concerts with Michael Bolton, Roberta Flack, the Wiggles and the Cinematic Orchestra, as well as symphonic concerts with the Melbourne, Sydney, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and Opera Australia. Sebastian also performed in a season of the Ballet Manon at the Sydney Opera House and a successful national tour with the Australian Opera in The Magic Flute, before moving to Chicago in 2014 to pursue his Masters of Music Performance with Gail Williams at Northwestern University. Along with performing, teaching is one of Seb’s great passions and it is a long-term goal of his to move back home to share his international learning experience with the next generation of young Australian musicians.

Andrea Lim

Dame Joan Sutherland FundSeattle University, WashingtonResearch Interest: MusicianAndrea is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Art in Arts Leadership at Seattle University, Washington. In 2014, she founded “The Chamber Project,” an arts organization with the mission to change the way classical music is presented in today’s society, to support emerging musicians, as well as to include a wider audience. That same year, Andrea was appointed Co-Artistic Director of “Chronology Arts” - a not-for-profit contemporary classical new music company which commissions new Australian works by emerging composers. She is a recent graduate from The Sydney Conservatorium of Music majoring in the violin under the tutelage of the Head of Strings Prof Goetz Richter and later Dr Marina Robinson. Andrea is an active performer and has been involved in Opera and Ballet orchestras as well as contemporary music. Besides performing, Andrea is also passionate about music teaching, street and portrait photography as well as having discussions about privilege, oppression and race.

Elise Routledge

Dame Joan Sutherland FundISCP, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistElise Routledge is a curator and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Art Theory and Master of Art Administration and has worked in curatorial, research and management roles with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Experimenta Media Arts, and the British Council Australia. Elise has independently curated exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary and Firstdraft Gallery and contributed to Un Magazine, Runway, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She has received numerous awards and grants, including an Australia Council Skills and Arts Development grant, and support from the Ian Potter Cultural Fund, Gordon Darling Foundation and Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, American Australian Association to complete a curatorial residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 2016.

Mark Hilton

Dame Joan Sutherland FundISCP, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistMark Hilton has exhibited widely, including Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra; Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and Careof, Milano. He has undertaken several residencies, including at Viafarini Galerie, Milano, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne and CoLab Projects, Texas. In 2014 the Michael Buxton Collection published Dontworry, examining Hilton’s practice with a key focus on his sculptural work with essays by Dr Chris McAuliffe, Maria Tumarkin and Jarrod Rawlins.

Recipients 2014

Paige Gardiner

Dame Joan Sutherland FundAtlantic Acting SchoolResearch Interest: ActorPaige studied Classical Piano at the Queensland Conservatorium, Music Theatre at VCA, and Acting at NIDA. She has performed in productions for STC, QTC, Griffin Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Pantsguys Theatre  Company. Paige has appeared in various television programs and is co-founder of sketch comedy collective I’m With Stupid.

Therese Milanovic

Dame Joan Sutherland FundTaubman Approach to Strings and Piano, United StatesResearch Interest: Pianist

Jemila MacEwan

Dame Joan Sutherland FundResidency at Flux Factory, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistJemila MacEwan is a New York and Melbourne based interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, performance, painting, photography, video and installation. She received her Masters Degree at the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia in 2012. Her work has been  exhibited In Australia and the US, including the Governor's Island Art Fair in NYC and the  Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Elise Bonato

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York Art Residency & Studios Foundation, New YorkResearch Interest: Multidisciplinary ArtistA multidisciplinary emerging artist, Elise is a maiden of the visual‐aural arcane. Her predominantly experimental and performance‐based practice aims to create an oeuvre of elegiac beauty through moving image, painting and drawing. Elise completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2012 with First Class Honours from the University of South Australia. Recent exhibitions include Arcane Beckoning and covet.

Jaden Hastings

Dame Joan Sutherland FundArtist‐in‐Residence at SymbioticA, University of Western AustraliaResearch Interest: Visual ArtistAn alumna of New York University, Harvard University, and the University of Oxford (New College) with advanced degrees in Biology and Bioinformatics, respectively, Jaden has recently completed her postgraduate studies in Fine Art (Art & Science) at Central Saint Martins in London. Her studio work combines scientific and artistic research into a single practice.

Zoe White

Dame Joan Sutherland FundThe Joffrey Academy of Dance Chicago, ChicagoResearch Interest: Ballet DancerZoe White is from Brisbane, Australia. She has been dancing since the age of three and at 16 was accepted into the ‘Professional Training Program’ with The Washington School of Ballet. Over the years Zoe has been accepted into and participated in numerous Ballet ‘Summer Schools’ including The School of American Ballet (NYC), American Ballet Theatre (NYC), and most recently The Joffrey Ballet Chicago (Chicago).

Alec Knight

Dame Joan Sutherland FundSchool of American Ballet, New YorkResearch Interest: Ballet dancerAlec, originally from Bundaberg, Queensland, started dancing at seven years of age, and went on to study Tap, Jazz, Ballet and Musical Theater. Following almost four years in residency at The Australian Ballet School’s Interstate/International Junior Program, Alec was accepted into The School of American Ballet in New York where is part of their full time program.

Devon Ward

Dame Joan Sutherland FundThe University of Western AustraliaResearch Interest: Visual ArtistDevon is an interdisciplinary artist investigating how information and biotechnologies intervene on living materials and processes. His work takes the form of multimedia installations, sculptures and printed books. Devon earned a Master of Biological Art from the University of Western Australia.Devon has exhibited in Japan, the US and Australia, most recently in Perth for the opening of his master’s exhibition “Nerves in Patterns on a Screen.”

Tarryn Gill

Dame Joan Sutherland FundInternational Studio and Curatorial Program, New YorkResearch Interest: Multidisciplinary artistTarryn Gill is a multidisciplinary Australian artist whose practice spans photography, film, performance, sculpture, drawing and theatre design. She has exhibited at museums such as Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; 17th Biennale of Sydney; Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art Basel Miami and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Susan Gibb

Dame Joan Sutherland FundInternational Studio & Curatorial Program, New YorkResearch Interest: Arts CuratorSusan is an arts curator and writer based in Sydney, Australia. She recently ran the independent curatorial initiative Society, and has held curatorial positions at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Carriageworks and Campbelltown Arts Centre. She writes regularly for art publications including ArtAsiaPacific.

Natalie Dietz

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew England Conservatory, BostonResearch Interest: Jazz VocalistSince graduating from the elite jazz vocal program at Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2012 at age 25, Natalie has toured Australia and New Zealand performing at renowned jazz venues. In 2013 she recorded a debut EP with highly esteemed New York musicians Aaron Parks, Mike Moreno, Joshua Crumbly and Justin Brown to international critical acclaim. In 2014 she was one of 3 vocalists selected internationally into New England Conservatory’s prestigious jazz vocal master's program.

Natasha Fearnside

Dame Joan Sutherland FundPrivate Coaching with Mark Nuccio, New JerseyResearch Interest: ClarinetistBorn in Sydney, Natasha Fearnside completed her Bachelor of Music in Brisbane and her Graduate Diploma of Professional Music Practice in Hobart. Natasha has worked as a freelance clarinetist in Melbourne and taught and tutored at various schools and programs. After arriving in New York in 2014, Natasha quickly found a place in a number of small groups, chamber and orchestral ensembles. In 2014 she was an artist participant in the California Hidden Valley Music Seminar of Mark Nuccio (Associate Principal New York Philharmonic).

Gabriel Andrews

Dame Joan Sutherland FundUniversity of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeResearch Interest: Acoustic guitaristGabriel Andrews is an emerging Australian acoustic guitarist. In 2014 he won the Wilson Centre International Guitar Competition, opening for Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook in the evening showcase. He released his EP Pathways at the Blue Mountains Music Festival in 2013. After receiving a Chancellor’s Scholarship in 2013, he joined the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and currently works as a tutor in The Bachelor of Music program while completing his Masters.

Zachary Bradford

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York University, New YorkResearch Interest: VocalistZachary maintains a busy career as a vocal teacher and coach. As a professional vocalist, Zachary has a wealth of experience performing at festivals, clubs, corporate events and over 50 musical theater productions. He has performed on stage with finalists from Tv's ''The Voice", "Idol" & 'The X Factor".

Sarah Guilmartin

Dame Joan Sutherland FundThe New School for Music, New YorkResearch Interest: Opera SingerSarah completed a Postgraduate Diploma of Music Performance at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts CNAAPA) under the tutelage of Patricia Price.  Her studies continued through the West Australian Opera Young Artist Program where she made her debut role as First Lady in The Magic Flute. She has performed a number of roles in Opera, Operetta and has appeared in concert throughout Australia and Ireland.

Jesse Rasmussen

Dame Joan Sutherland FundYale School of Drama, ConnecticutResearch Interest: DirectorJesse is a founding member of 'junkyard opera' company 4Larks. Works include: Orpheus, (Getty Villa Theater Lab, LA, 2014), The Plague Dances (Company in Residence, Malthouse, 2012), Undine (2011 ), Peer Gynt (2010), and Alice (2009). Jesse devises theatre with tertiary and high school students (Artists in Schools grant, 2014).

Lara Baker Finch

Dame Joan Sutherland FundSan Francisco Academy Orchestra, San FranciscoResearch Interest: ViolinistLara studied at the Queensland Conservatorium under Michele Walsh and Graeme Jennings. She received her Bachelor of Music with first class Honours in 2012 and Master of Music studies in 2014. Her passion is for orchestral music, and she has performed with the Sydney Symphony Sinfonia, Queensland Syrrphony Orchestra, and the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Emma Lindsay

Dame Joan Sutherland FundResidency at Point B Worklodge, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistEmma Lindsay is a Brisbane based emerging artist interested in the depiction of species endangerment and extinction. Lindsay's work to date has focused on the representation of Australian ornithological specimens held exclusively in museum collections across the world. Her work is represented in national and international private and institutional collections. Lindsay graduated from the Queensland College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with First Class Honours.

Cassandra Tytler

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York Art Residency and Studios Foundation, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual Installation ArtistCassandra Tytler is an artist working within single-channel video, performance, and installation. She is particularly fascinated by the symbolism of popular clichés, and within her work pastiches isolated and fragmented cultural conventions, and shapes them into revealing stories or situations. Tytler has exhibited and screened work nationally and internationally, and has done live performance around Europe and in Melbourne.

Bonnie Lane

Dame Joan Sutherland FundNew York University, New YorkResearch Interest: Video Installation ArtistBonnie is a video installation artist born in Melbourne. Her works have been exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions at Anna Pappas Gallery, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, and BUS Projects in Melbourne and Art Currents Institute in New York City. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Norway, Portugal, South Korea and the USA.

Caitlin Cassidy

Dame Joan Sutherland FundMannes College of Music, New YorkResearch Interest: Opera SingerCaitlin Cassidy is a mezzo-soprano in the Young Artist Program at the West Australian Opera (WAO) and an exciting newcomer to the operatic stage. Caitlin made her principal debut with WAO last year as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto and was delighted to re-join the company for the 2014 production of the Magic Flute as the Third Lady. She is a graduate from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she completed a Bachelor of Music, a Graduate Diploma and a Master of Creative Arts.

Adam Markowitz

Dame Joan Sutherland FundCenter for Furniture Craftsmanship, MaineResearch Interest: Furniture DesignerHolding graduate degrees in both Architecture and Furniture Design, from schools of design and craft in Melbourne, Hobart, The Netherlands and Denmark, Adam brings a multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach to furniture design and craft. His work values the intimate connection between design and fabrication, and the intersection of modern digital processes and traditional methods of craftsmanship.

Sarah Jackson

Dame Joan Sutherland FundThe Second City Training Centre, ChicagoResearch Interest: Actor & ComedianSarah is an actor and comedian from Melbourne. Stage credits include original Musical Comedy 'Suitcases, Baggage & other Synonyms' (2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival sell-out season) and 'Tell Me About Yourself' (2013 Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival). Sarah is a finalist in Australia's largest open-mic competition, RAW Comedy.

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

Dame Joan Sutherland FundInaugural International Art Song Festival with master teachers Graham Johnson and Deborah BirnbaumResearch Interest: Visual ArtistFrom 13-20 July 2014 the WAAPA hosted the first event of its kind in Australia, a dedicated art song festival that brings together world-class international performers and teachers with Australian/Asia-Pacific singers and pianists. Master teachers Deborah Birnbaum and Dr Graham Johnson led a week of master classes on the songs of Franz Schubert.

Madison Bycroft

Dame Joan Sutherland FundInternational Studio and Curatorial Program, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistMadison completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with first class honours at the University of South Australia. She has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Australia and recently in Canada, in public, commercial and artist run galleries, as well experimenting with  non-traditional sites. She has a multi media practice, including video, sculpture and performance.

Laura Sheedy

Dame Joan Sutherland FundAnne Bogart and SITI Company on their new project Steel Hammer, New YorkResearch Interest: Performer & DirectorLaura Sheedy is a performer and director. She has directed work for Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, The World Theatre Festival and La Trobe and Princeton Universities. Most recently, Laura directed Charles Mee Jr’s Big Love and created a new work, By The Time You Get This, for The Princeton University Sound Kitchen with her company, Nothing To See Here.

Kristin McIver

Dame Joan Sutherland FundResidency in New York City at Residency Unlimited, New YorkResearch Interest: Visual ArtistKristin is an Australian visual artist whose practice includes sculpture, painting and  installation. Utilizing devices such as text and neon, her works explore the themes of desire and aspiration prevalent in our hyper-consumer culture.

Kathryn Radcliffe

Dame Joan Sutherland FundHawaii Performing Arts Festival Opera Summer School, HawaiiResearch Interest: Opera SingerKathryn completed an Honors year of her Bachelor of Music Performance in 2009 at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music with first class Honors. She has since performed as a solo artist and chorus member for Opera Australia and in various productions as a freelance artist.

Chuck Hudson

Dame Joan Sutherland FundMelbourne Conservatorium of Music, MelbourneResearch Interest: Director (Opera, Theater & Musical)Based in New York City, Chuck has directed opera productions at major international companies and has directed award winning theater productions in New York and regionally, including The Pearl Theatre,, The Children’s Theatre Festival of Houston, New City Theatre, and Chicago’s Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Aristea Mellos

Dame Joan Sutherland FundEastman School of Music, The University of Rochester, New YorkResearch Interest: ComposerAristea Mellos is an Australian composer and doctoral candidate at the Eastman School of Music. Her compositions are regularly performed throughout Australia, Canada, the United States, and Europe in venues such as Spectrum New Music (Manhattan), The Orpheum (Vancouver), Kilbourn Hall (Rochester), and the Megaron Performing Arts Centre (Athens).

Amber Boardman

Dame Joan Sutherland FundWilliam Street Live/Work Residency, SydneyResearch Interest: Visual ArtistAmber has worked with composers and performers on a series of "Visual Concerts" and immersive public art installations. Her work was included in Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Art Festival, Flux Projects public art festival and "The Wagner Experience" in Germany and the Netherlands.

Adele Querol

Dame Joan Sutherland FundAtlantic Acting School, New YorkResearch Interest: ActorAdele grew up in rural Victoria  and left when she was 17 to complete her formal tradition at Western Australian Academy Performing Arts (WAAPA), Adele has toured all over Australia with Bell Shakespeare Company,  performed with Tim Minchin at  Sydney Theater Company and acted in Australian award winning short films.

Recipients 2013 - 2011

Heidi Yardley

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Jamil Yamani

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Melita White

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Carolyn Watson

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Tida Tippapart

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Amelia Roper

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Paul Peers

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kiernan O’Dea

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Steven Newcomb

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Sam Nester

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Stephen Moravski

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Caitlin Maling

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Theresa Leung

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Blaide Lallemand

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Shanie Klas

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Thomas Jovanovic

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Natasha Johns-Messenger

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Astra Howard

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Sarah Guilmartin

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Lachlan Glen

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Catherine Gregory

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Paul Fitzsimon

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Talya Chalef

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Marcus Callum

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kylie Boltin

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Ben Winkelman

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Tiffany Bishop

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Zoe Vandermeer

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Sandra Thong

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Damien Sim

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kate Shaw

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Timothy Moore

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Clare McFadden

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kari Lyon

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Alexander Lewis

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Theresa Leung

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Louisa Hunter-Bradley

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Rajiv Jayaweera

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Brooke Goldfinch

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Jillian Guerts

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Simone Easthope

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Wendy Dent

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Ian Colless

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Rebecca Baumann

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Shannon Barnett

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Lily Balatincz

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Natasha Trenear

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Catherine Terracini

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Tim Silver

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Zach Sengstock

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Santina Amato

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Ryan & Rochelle Rankin

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Orvana Quartet

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Catarina Poljski & Louise Blyton

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kristen Plati

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Nell Pierce

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Krystalla Pearce

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Ngaio Parr

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Clara Pagone

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Harry Newell

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kate Mitchell

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Therese Milanovic

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Arstea Mellos

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Gabriella & Silvana Mangano

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Nicholas Marks

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Shelly Lauman

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Aaron Kenny

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Alexandra Kennedy-Scott

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Paull-Anthony Kneightly

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Mischa Ipp

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Chuck Hudson

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Brenda Goldstein

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Katya Grokhovsky

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Michaela Gleave

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Natasha Frisch

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Cat Dibley

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Leah Filley

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Benita de Wit

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Corinne Davis

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Ella Condon

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Ben Charnley

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Mark Chu

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Grant Cartwright

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Gavan Blau

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Kim Brockett

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Nathan Bett

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Christopher Bennett

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Laura Bailey

Dame Joan Sutherland Fund

Education Fund

2024 Alumni

Dr. Joel Maamary

St. Vincents Hospital Sydney Clinical Exchange Fellow
AUS to USAMount SinaiResearch Interest: Neurology

Dr. Tamar Jamieson

South Australia Defence, Space & Cyber Scholar
AUS to USAFlorida Institute of TechnologyResearch Interest: Biofouling

Darcy Smith

South Australia Defence, Space & Cyber Scholar
AUS to USAYale UniversityResearch Interest: Defence Technology

Maria Pia Campagna

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California San Francisco Research Interest: Neuroscience

William Turner

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAStanford UniversityResearch Interest: Cognitive Neuroscience

Adam Lawrence

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Illinois Research Interest: Computational Mechanics

Athena Stein

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of North Carolina Research Interest: Neuroscience

Patrick Walker

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Public Health

Elizabeth Flatley

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Pennsylvania Research Interest: Clean Energy - Policy

Kate Gaylard

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia UniversityResearch Interest: Sustainability

Benjamin Biggs

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAJohns Hopkins UniversityResearch Interest: Biomedical Engineering

Isaac Tucker

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearch Interest: Biotechnology

2023 Alumni

Himmat Panag

American Australian Association - Arthur Sinodinos Scholar
AUS to USA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Research Interest: Aerospace Engineering

Isabella Kong

Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USA Weill Cornell Medicine Pediatrics Research Interest: Biology

Sidhant Chopra

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAYale University Research Interest: Neuroscience

Kimberley Biggs

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology Research Interest: Drug Design and Development

Katrina Black

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California, San Francisco Research Interest: Biology

Nicola Scott

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California, San DiegoResearch Interest: Molecular Biology

Arman Siahvashi

American Australian Association - Pratt Industries Scholar
AUS to USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Interest: Space, Energy, and Engineering

Hao Song

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology Research Interest: Nanotechnology

Sarah Strong

American Australian Association - Northrop Grumman Corporation Scholar
AUS to USA University of California, Los Angeles Research Interest: Quantum Physics

Phoebe Thomson

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAChild Mind Institute Research Interest: Neuroscience

Bryan Yuk-Wah Tang

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Health

Karri Walker

American Australian - Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard University Research Interest: Law

Kristel Tjandra

David Nason Journalism Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California, Santa Cruz Research Interest: Science Journalism

2022 Alumni

Madeline O’Grady

Sustainable Health Care Funding Scholar
USA to AUS University of Queensland Research Interest: Health Economics

Lacey Trujillo

Indigenous Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Adelaide Research Interest: Business Administration

Soren Huber

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSGriffith University Research Interest: Marine Botany and Genetics

Miranda Altice

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSSouthern Cross University Research Interest: Coral Reef Biodiversity

Emily Pacheco

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSMacquarie University Research Interest: Sign Language Interpreting & Research

Emily Nabong

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Sydney Research Interest: Humanitarian Engineering

Callaway Thatcher

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSJames Cook University Research Interest: Coral Microbiology

Angus Keto

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Queensland Research Interest: Computational Chemistry

Anamaria Muniz Rodriguez

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSJames Cook University Research Interest: Marine Biology

Allison Clatch

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of MelbourneResearch Interest: Immunology

Aaron Hasenei

Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSJames Cook University Research Interest: Fish Physiology

Nicholas Harvey-Doyle

American Australian - Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USANew York University Research Interest: Media, Culture, and Communications

Maxwell Brierty

American Australian - Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard University Research Interest: Philosophy

Danielle Kampers

American Australian - Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Hawaii at HiloResearch Interest: Conservation Biology

Flynn De Luca

American Australian - Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USADavenport University Research Interest: Accounting and Finance

Dakota Feier

American Australian - Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USANew York University Research Interest: Museum Studies

Lori Youmshajekian

David Nason Journalism Scholar
AUS to USANew York University Research Interest: Jounalism

Winnie Orchard

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAYale University Research Interest: Cognitive Neuroscience

Stone Woo

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAThe Scripps Research Institute Research Interest: Chemistry

Ruth Kravis

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California, BerkeleyResearch Interest: Electrical Engineering

Michael Dore

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USANorthwestern University Research Interest: Nanotechnology

Helena Franco

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Medical Sciences

James O’Sullivan

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAMichigan State University Research Interest: Agricultural Sustainablity

Allison Kearney

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia UniversityResearch Interest: Immunology

Jianghui (Sloan) Wang

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUMass Chan Medical School Research Interest: Optical Gene Therapy

Joseph Swift

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USASalk Institute for Biological Studies Research Interest: Plant Biology

Isobel Ronai

Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Tick Biology

2021 Alumni

Colleen Feuerborn

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSAustralian National UniversityResearch Interest: Astronomy & Astrophysics

Michael Halwes

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of MelbourneResearch Interest: Biomedical Engineering

Lutfi Huq

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of MelbourneResearch Interest: Immunology

Malcolm Johnson

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Tasmania Research Interest: Sustainability

Catherine Parr

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of SydneyResearch Interest: Health Communication

Ashley Potter

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSMonash University Research Interest: Marine Ecology

Ryan Schoenbaum

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of MelbourneResearch Interest: Conservation Planning

Katie Sievers

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSJames Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Marine Science

Taylor Whitman

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSJames Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Marine Biology

Vanessa Zepeda

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSQueensland University of Technology Research Interest: Astrobiology

Ava Benny-Morrison

AAA-David Charles Nason Journalism ScholarColumbia University Research Interest: Journalism

Jessica Bridgford

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia University Research Interest: Microbiology

Ronald Chau

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Arizona Research Interest: Clinical Psychology

Chloe D’Souza

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard University Research Interest: Law

Isabella Franks

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Scholar
AUS to USALehigh UniversityResearch Interest: Psychology

Bronte Gosper

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia UniversityResearch Interest: Oral History

Zoey Isherwood

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Nevada, RenoResearch Interest: Neuroscience

Tess Kelly

AAA-Sustainable Health Care Fund Scholar Harvard UniversityResearch Interest: Public Policy

Helen McRae

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USASalk Institute for Biological StudiesResearch Interest: Cancer Biology

Hayden Ryan

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Scholar
AUS to USAStanford University Research Interest: Music, Science & Technology

Jacob White

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAMIT University Research Interest: Engineering

Todd Whittaker

AAA-Northrop Grumman Corporation ScholarUniversity of Colorado, Boulder Research Interest: Engineering

Jasmine Wilson

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of WashingtonResearch Interest: Immunology

2020 Alumni

Magena Marzonie

AAA-Chevron Graduate Education Scholar
US to AUSJames Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Sustainability

Scott Hershberger

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSAustralian National UniversityResearch Interest: Sustainability

Annie Bryant

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of SydneyResearch Interest: Neuroscience

Amelia Munson

AAA-NGC Graduate Education Scholar
USA to AUSMonash UniversityResearch Interest: Ecology

Alice Yan

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia UniversityResearch Interest: Sustainability

Kit Kennedy

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAWeill Cornell MedicineResearch Interest: Epigenetics

Shamindra Shrotriya

AAA – NGC Wildfire Research Scholar
AUS to USACarnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Interest: Statistics and Data Science

Tessa Sullivan

David Charles Nason
Journalism ScholarHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Journalism

Kassandra Karpathakis

AAA Graduate Education Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthResearch Interest: Technology

Sasha Purcell

AAA-Aurora-Lisa Fox Foundation Indigenous Scholar
AUS to USANew York UniversityResearch Interest: Law and Human Rights

Marijke Bassani

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Scholar
AUS to USAUC Berkeley / University of HawaiiResearch Interest: International Law and Human Rights

Leo Sementilli

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of QueenslandResearch Interest: Physics

Erika Auger

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSMurdoch UniversityResearch Interest: Forensic Science

Samuel Zarfos

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholarship
USA to AUSUniversity of TasmaniaResearch Interest: Chemistry

Karen Corbett

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholarship
USA to AUSMonash UniversityResearch Interest: Pharmaceuticals

Meadhbh Molloy

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSThe University of SydneyResearch Interest: Conservation Biology

Jessica Bergman

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSUniversity of New South WalesResearch Interest: Marine Biology

Lauren Jankowski

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholarship
USA to AUSUniversity of QueenslandResearch Interest: Bioinformatics

Ryan Ivone

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholarship
USA to AUSUniversity of South AustraliaResearch Interest: Pharmaceuticals

Anthony Waddle

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSUniversity of MelbourneResearch Interest: Wildlife Conservation

Sophia MacVittie

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSThe University of MelbourneResearch Interest: Biosciences

Amber Datta

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSJames Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Environmental Studies

Dana Cusano

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSThe University of QueenslandResearch Interest: Marine Sciences

Melissa Ward

AAA Education Fund Scholarship
USA to AUSDeakin UniversityResearch Interest: Carbon Biogeochemistry

Hemant Gandhi

AAA Sir Keith Murdoch Scholarship
USA to AUSUniversity Of New South WalesResearch Interest: Engineering/Sustainability

2019 Alumni

Brett Shannon

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USATBCResearch Interest: Medicine

Josephine Newman

AAA-Lisa Fox Foundation Indigenous Scholarship
AUS to USATBCResearch Interest: Literary and Cultural Studies

Tui Nolan

AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar
AUS to USA Cornell UniversityResearch Interest: Mathematics

Rebecca Delconte

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAThe Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterResearch Interest: Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

Leon Di Stefano

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAJohns Hopkins UniversityResearch Interest: Technology/Mathematics

Aaron Pereira

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USACaltech/Jet Propulsion LaboratoryResearch Interest: Engineering/Technology

Michelle Achlatis

AAA Education Fund Scholar
AUS to USACalifornia Academy of SciencesResearch Interest: Marine Ecology

William Mitchell

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAHarvard UniversityResearch Interest: Public Health

Daniel Bennett

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAPrinceton UniversityResearch Interest: Neuroscience

Aimee Leabon

AAA-David Nason Journalism Scholar
AUS to USAColumbia UniversityResearch Interest: Journalism

Gopesh Tilvawala

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of California San DiegoResearch Interest: Engineering

Shanna Grafeld

American Australian Association Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Hawaii/James Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Environmental Sustainability

Maureen Ho

American Australian Association Scholar
USA to AUSCalifornia State University, Northridge/Griffith UniversityResearch Interest: Marine Ecology

Morgan Gilmour

American Australian Association Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of California, Santa Cruz/University of TasmaniaResearch Interest: Ocean Sciences

Jennifer Cocciardi

American Australian Association Scholar
USA to AUSNew York University/James Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Carolyn Wheeler

American Australian Association Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Massachusetts Boston/James Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Marine Ecology

Walter Torres

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSDuke University/University of Western AustraliaResearch Interest: Physics

Michael Lacagnina

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSDuke University/University of New South Wales & University of AdelaideResearch Interest: Neuroscience

Julianna Prim

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of North Carolina/Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research CenterResearch Interest: Biomedical Research

Catherine Sampson

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSTexas A&M University/University of Western AustraliaResearch Interest: Chemical Engineering

2018 Alumni

Tamara Marcus

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of New Hampshire/University of TasmaniaResearch Interest: Sustainability

Meredith Redd

University of Queensland Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Washington/University of QueenslandResearch Interest: Medicine

Maureen Walczak

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSOregon State University/Australian National UniversityResearch Interest: Sustainability

John Jenkins

Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics Scholar
USA to AUSVanderbilt University/University of AdelaideResearch Interest: Physics

Jeff Groh

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of British Columbia/University of QueenslandResearch Interest: Biological Science

Timothy O’Shea

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAQueensland University of Technology/University of CaliforniaResearch Interest: Neurology and Biomedical Science

Isabella Farr

David Nason Journalism Scholar
AUS to USANew York University, Shanghai/Columbia UniversityResearch Interest: Journalism

Cara Nolan

University of Queensland Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Queensland/University of California, BerkeleyResearch Interest: Sustainability

Nicole Lake

Qantas Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Melbourne/Yale UniversityResearch Interest: Genetics

Kathryn Potts

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Melbourne/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResearch Interest: Leukemia

Kathrine Cummins

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Melbourne/University of PennsylvaniaResearch Interest: Leukemia

Gavin Knott

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Western Australia/University of California BerkeleyResearch Interest: Biomedical Science

Daniel Pederick

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Adelaide/Stanford UniversityResearch Interest: Genetics

Arnab Ghosh

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Melbourne/Weill Cornell Research CenterResearch Interest: Medicine

Adam Lee

AAA-Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Sydney/University of CaliforniaResearch Interest: Medicine

Suleiman Alhadidi

Chevron Scholar
AUS to USAUniversity of Melbourne/Harvard UniversityResearch Interest: Sustainability

2017 Alumni

Beeke Wienert

Simone Sandler

Julia Moriarty

Kate Markey

Matthew Knott

Simon Kheifets

Kathleen Jackson

Nicholas Hirons

Yixin Gong

Nicholas Croggon

Tristan Clemons

Emma Cillekens

Rachel Chambers

Elizabeth Burgess

2016 Alumni

Kelsey Zimmermann

Devin Wahl

Martin Stewart

Yichen Shi

Martin Seneviratne

Scott Mulane

Alison Levens

Carol Hua

Mark Hilton

Felix Ellett

Gabriel Collin

Jacob Coffey

Bridget Callaghan

Jennifer Allen

2015 Alumni

David Wang

Rachel Slatyer

Nicholas Rodd

Mark Richardson

Jessica Neil

Sarah Morris

Elizabeth Manning

Dylan Lino

Nicholas Lam

Amanda Kazacos

Matthew Herington

Joshua Hamon

Andrew Guirguis

Daniel Fink

Stephen Dietz

Jessica Beach

John Bartholomew

Michael Barratta

Oluseun Aremu

2014 Alumni

Stephen Young

Alexis Whitton

Kandice Varcin

Ron Tidhar

Jonathan Swan

Hillary Smith

Alexander Smith

Shana Radford

Matthew Pinson

Emily Parisi

Petter Nyman

Maria Nayfa

Benjamin Morrell

Geoffrey Matthews

Angela Lek

Gabrielle Josling

Morgan James

Ashleigh Hood

Clair Gordon

Patrick Gentry

Aaron Cooper

Amy Chandran

Patricia Carroll

James Bullock

Ian Brennan

Teresa Bonello

Michael Bergin

2013 Alumni

Ashkan Yousefi

Graham White

Matthew Thompson

Adam Sirois

Philip Ryan

Michael Power

Kumiko Percival

Maggie O’Haire

Anita Murray

Kathryn Mueller

Steven Mong

Julia Meuller

Stephen Merity

Alexandra Manos Turvey

Heather Kember

Sinthujan Jegaskanda

Peter Grace

Arjun Goyal

Jenny Giles

Frances Evesson

Jessie English

David Eggleston

Sindy Cole

Michelle Chong

Adrian Camilleri

Simon Bonyhady

2012 Alumni

Maria Wang

Natalie Spillman

Sarah Ryan

Jason Ross

Michael Puckett

Gita Pendharkar

Caroline O’Brien

Sean Murphy

Elizabeth Mason

Aya Maceda

Monkol Lek

Ling San Lau

Yasher Kalani

Maryam Jahanshahi

Robert Hoelzle

Tamara Hartke

Rebekah Grindlay

Julia Fetherston

Ryan Edwards

Rachel Dreyer

Steve Doo

Megan Brewer

Catlin Breare

Nicholas Blair

Samuel Boone

Stanley Artap

Tony Aitchison

2011 Alumni

David Wilson

Rebecca Sweet

James Sullivan

Fiona Soper

Bridgette Semple

Robert Saye

Ben Ovenden

Talia Mota

Ashley Moon

Peter Metaxas

Shane Liddelow

Khoshmanesh Khashayar

Cameron Keating

Rachelle Johnson

William Hatleberg

Shom Goel

Samantha Duncan

Graham Doig

Emma Dell

Bradley Clarke

Kristal Cain

Robyn Brown

Andrew Brookes

2010 Alumni

Kara Yopak-Shaw

Dana Willner

Jane Seto

Katherine Richeson

Kenneth Pang

Elizabeth Newnham

Stephanie Mills

Peter Macreadie

Renjing Liu

Daniel Khong

Vanessa Kelly

Karen Gregory

Bronwyn Graham

Allan Gamble

Eileen Dunne

Jesse Collangelo-Lillis

Amy Chung

Justin Boddey

2009 Alumni

Scott Wait

Jennifer Vaughn

Tracy Slatyer

Edward Sanders

Joseph Pollock

Slavé Petrovoski

Angela Nickerson

Leah Muller

Sarah Miskin

David Keith

Katherine Jackman

Marcin Grabowicz

Jonathan Diaz

Heather Cohn

Alex Bissember

Anna Barron

2008 Alumni

Susannah Tye

Jacqueline Thomas

Paul Stanwix

Morgan Pratchett

David Liuwantara

Andrew Little

Julia Ling

Shanjean Lee

Cristy Gelling

Benjamin Fraser

Nishant D’Souza

Danielle Dixson

Luke Connal

Joshua Cantone

Vanessa Adams

2007 Alumni

Andrew Zalesky

Sindia Sosdian

Theresa Puthussery

Spencer Maughan

Peter Moyle

Christine Lu

Carissa Klein

Tamila Kaplinovsky

Amanda Hutchinson

Gwyndolen Harburg

Paul Giacomin

Anna Dart

Deanna D’Alessandro

Murray Cranston

Simon Corrie

Michael Berumen

Nicholas Aberle

2006 Alumni

Marshall Wilkinson

Benjamin Walther

Andrew Sypkes

Michael Robinson

Brendan Roark

Tri Phan

Elizabeth Murchison

Joanne Muller

Charlene Lobo

Gillian Gregory

Sarah Cooper

Celia Chen

Louise Berben

Julie Bednarski

2005 Alumni

Danielle Stanisic

Natalie Scott

Gemma Solomon

David Lupton

Mark Hutchinson

Raymond Goldsworthy

Nathan Gianneschi

Laura Downey

John Foong

Sarah Cooper

Anthony Cesare

2004 Alumni

Peter Liu

Amany Zekry

Jill Zamzow

Alexander Swarbrick

Kristin Rosen

Leisha Nolen

2003 Alumni

Rolan Stephens

Bob Wong

Deborah Sim

Jason Hoogland

Michelle Harvey

2002 Alumni

Cuong Tran

Nicholas Shackel

Eric May

Katherine Humphry

Jodie Bradby

Veteran Fund

2024 Alumni

William Ranson-Smith

Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Business Administration

Grace Manahan

Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAGeorgetown UniversityResearch Interest: Technology – Data and National Security

2024 Alumni

2023 Alumni

Alwyn Johnson

American Australian Association - Northrop Grumman Corporation Scholar
AUS to USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Interest: Supply Chain Management

Louis Yencken

American Australian Association - Stonepeak Scholar
AUS to USA University of Southern California Research Interest: Finance

Robert Kerlsake

Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAYavapai College Research Interest: Gunsmithing

2022 Alumni

Nicholas Heier

Incitec Pivot Ltd Scholarship & Internship Scholar Griffith University Research Interest: Sustainable Civil/Construction Engineering

Hai Tu

Incitec Pivot Ltd Scholarship & Internship Scholar Queensland University of Technology Research Interest: International Business and Data Analytics

Nina Tolentino

Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUS University of Technology, Sydney Research Interest: Nursing

Sergio Villareal

Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUS The University of Queensland Research Interest: Nursing

Saim Bashir

Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUS TBCResearch Interest: Management and Information Technology

Isiah Hernandez

Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUS Queensland University of Technology Research Interest: Information Technology

Corey Moody

Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUS The University of Sydney Research Interest: Museum and Heritage Studies

Peter Saunders

Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAClemson UniversityResearch Interest: International Business

Nicholas Desilas

American Australian Association - F45 Scholar
AUS to USA TBCResearch Interest: Business

Patrick Beer

Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USATBCResearch Interest: Law/Theology

2021 Alumni

Misael Garcia

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Counselling

Jeremy Morales

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of Western AustraliaResearch Interest: Environmental Science

Wilson Ospina

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Sociology and Global Studies

Joel Michael Bell

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Business Administration

Emily Ford

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Education

Natalie Harrisson

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Food and Nutrition

Adam Leslie

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Business Administration

Catherine Walsh

AAA-IPL Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Public Management

Benjamin Zeid

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAYale University Research Interest: Medicine

2020 Alumni

Juan Rodriguez

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Law

Trevor Clack

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUS

James Robinson

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSJames Cook UniversityResearch Interest: Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery

William Wong

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSThe University of SydneyResearch Interest: Veterinary Medicine

Todd Forsman

AAA-IPL Veterans' Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Marlon Woods

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSThe University of SydneyResearch Interest: Neuroscience and Social Psychology

Edward Carpenter

AAA-Neuberger Berman Veteran's Scholar
USA to AUSUniversity of MelbourneResearch Interest: Graduate Diploma in Philosophy

Robert MacDonald

AAA - Lendlease Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Human Computer Interaction

Christopher Lowe

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Aerospace Engineer

Amanda MacKinnell

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Defence and Regional Security Studies

Jeremy Pierce

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Bachelor's of Economics and Advanced Studies

Derek Endter

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology

Micah Killion

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Music Psychology

Vitalis Wekheye

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Security and Strategic Studies

Samantha Antolick

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Robert Mraz

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Carlos Hernandez

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Public Health (Nutrition + Psychology)

James Knuppenburg

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Business Administration

James McCullen

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Environmental Engineering

Leslie VanBelkum

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Masters in Cyber Security with a concentration in Cyber Criminology

2019 Alumni

John Gray

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Law & Public Policy

Natasha Fox

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Personal Training & Rehabilitation

John Bathgate

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Public Administration

Tess McGrath

AAA - Greg Norman Veteran Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Educational Leadership

Andrew Cullen

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Education

Thomas Hrdlicka

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Masters of Environment Private Hrdlicka is a 4-year Veteran of the United States Army. He is interested in studying environmental sustainability and intends to undertake a Masters of Environment at the University of Melbourne, commencing in 2020. Upon earning his degree in Australia, Private Hrdlicka would like to work with IGOs/NGOs to affect positive change in environmental policies and technologies, improving and sustaining the overall quality of the urban, rural, and natural environments on the continent. Private Hrdlicka is a member of the Cherokee Seminole tribe.

Kevin Lenahan

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Master of Business AdministrationCaptain Lenahan is an 8-year Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He attends the University of Sydney as a member of the university’s first full-time Master of Business Administration (Leadership and Enterprise) cohort.  By learning from his peers and professors’ methods, tactics and techniques, Captain Lenahan hopes to further his philanthropic and entrepreneurial endeavors.  While enrolled, he co-founded an NGO out of South Sudan.  Upon graduation, his №1 priority is to continue to put others first—taught by his parents, Tom and Theresa Lenahan—a value which was annealed through his honorable service in the U.S. Marines.  Whilst in the Marines, Captain Lenahan shot, flied, and supplied: serving as a prior-enlisted officer on active and reserve duty.  He earned his associate’s and bachelor’s degrees from Ohio University.  During his free time, Captain Lenahan can be spotted enjoying beautiful Australian beaches and wildlife.

John O’Hara

AAA-IPL Veterans' Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: International BusinessPetty Officer O’Hara is a 6-year Veteran of the United States Navy. He is currently studying a Bachelor of International Business, minoring in banking and professional accounting at Murdoch University. Petty Officer O’Hara has one year of study left in Australia and upon graduating, he hopes to secure an internship in the US and build a career in politics, specifically foreign affairs.

2018 Alumni

Jeramiah Wegner

AAA - Sentinels of Freedom Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: International DevelopmentJeramiah Wegner served in the US Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment for 7 years and had six combat deployments.  He is currently finishing a Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. After completing his degree in Fall 2018, Jeramiah intends to pursue a Master's Degree in International Development in Australia.

Shawn Skinner

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Marine Biology & Ecology Shawn Skinner served in the United States Marine Corps for 3 years.  He now intends to pursue a Master’s degree in Sustainability at James Cook University in Queensland with a focus on identifying approaches to improve health and resiliency on coral reefs.

Sam Greenwood

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Business Analytics Sam Greenwood served in the United States Marine Corps for 3 years.  He now intends to pursue a Master’s degree in Business Analytics at the University of New South Wales.

Marcos Rocha Jr.

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Criminal JusticeMarcos Rocha Jr. served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps for 5 ½ years.  He now intends to pursue a Master’s Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of New South Wales to identify approaches to reduce recidivism in the criminal justice system.

Emily Leonard

AAA - GSJMF Commemorative Defense Scholar
USA to AUSResearch Interest: Public Policy – Healthcare Emily Leonard served for 6 years in the U.S. Navy.  She now intends to pursue a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Management at the University of Melbourne.  Her graduate study will focus on studying the Australian healthcare system as a possible model for improving quality and efficiency of US healthcare.

Samuel Eastwood

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Business AdministrationCorporal Eastwood plans to study a Master of Business Administration at an American university in order to continue his professional and personal development following his transition from soldier to civilian. His goal is to utilize the knowledge and benefits provided by an MBA to develop a strong foundation in international business, from which he can pursue an international business career that will allow him to build on the strengths he has gained from his eight years of service as a soldier, coupled with four years as an Embassy staff member.

Callum Newton

AAA - Greg Norman Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Business AdministrationLt. Newton’s long-term goal is to bridge his 13-year military career experience with business acumen to help grow the Australian defense industry so that Australia may continue to flourish. He sees a symbiotic relationship between the strength and vibrancy of a nation’s economy, and its ability to flourish as a peaceful society, which is the reason he was drawn to study a Master of Business Administration. As part of the MBA program, Lt. Newton will undertake study exchange at either Stern Business School, NYC, or Booth School of Business, Chicago. A key attribute of the American psyche which he is interested in learning more about is the entrepreneurial spirit, as this facilitates the innovation which implementation of the Australian defense industry capability plan calls for.

Nerita Lewis

AAA Veterans' Fund Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Business Administration      Flt Lt. Lewis plans to undertake a Master of Business Administration, at one of the top ten ranked business schools in the US, to support her successful transition from the military. Her goal upon graduation is to return to Australia and work in the Non-Governmental sector, providing support to the Asia-Pacific region. She plans to tailor her degree to the NGO field via elective options, for example: growing social enterprises, strategic innovation, ICT, data mining for business intelligence, competitive strategy and project management. In 2012 Flt Lt. Lewis was the youngest and most junior ranked military member selected to undertake the UN Military Observer Course, training with military personnel from 27 countries.

James Coltheart

AAA - Lendlease Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Master of Public Policy Major Coltheart is currently studying a Master of Public Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. As someone who served for 13 years in the military, including at war, Major Coltheart intends to use his study to build his conceptual understanding of conflict and increase his knowledge of functional and regional security issues. His goal is to pursue a career in international security policy where he will use the skills gained to influence international security policy and ensure that the nation’s ‘blood and treasure' are used wisely, for example as a Policy Advisor within the United Nations Peacekeeping Group or Department of Political Affairs, before returning to Australia. His current research interests include the rules-based global order, the utility of force as an instrument of policy and contemporary conflict.

2017 Alumni

Nathan Johnson

AAA - GSJMF Commemorative Defense Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Electronic and Cyber WarfareNathan Johnson is a 17-year veteran of the Australian Army. Nathan is currently undertaking a PhD looking at the nexus between Electronic and Cyber warfare in at Arizona State University.

Christopher Wilson

AAA - Sentinels of Freedom Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Medicine – PTSDChristopher Wilson served for 4 years in the Royal Australian Air Force.  He now intends to study medicine focusing on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and understand US approaches to managing and improving health for veterans in both countries.

Ben Luther

AAA - Lendlease Scholar
AUS to USAResearch Interest: Complex safety systemsMr.  Ben Luther served for 22 years in the Royal Australian Air Force and now intends to pursue an Advanced Certificate in Executive Management of Innovation and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to enhance safety for high-risk situations.