They were drawn from 80 artists who submitted over 240 works. Monika Tichacek-Damhuis, winner of this year's Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. W inner - Max Kelly Scholarship Sydney Venice Exchange Urban Designer and Architect Bridget Smyth is the recipient of this year's Max Kelly Scholarship . The scholarship was established in 1996 when the NSW Ministry for Arts set up an annual exchange with the Venice City Council, the International Centre Cities on Water and the Consorzio Venezia Nuova, a group of Italian companies and arts organisations based in Venice. It was named to honour the memory of Associate Professor of Town Planning Max Kelly , and aims to promote cultural exchange between scholars working in the areas of cultural infrastructure, design and planning.
Italian authorities support a similar visit to Sydney for a resident of Venice.
More information here . I ntroducing Susan Green, winner of the 2000 NSW Indigenous History Fellowship Susan Green with NSW Premier and Minister for the Arts, Bob Carr Susan Green is a Wiradjuri researcher and historian. It is what makes me as an individual, I do not exist without the lives and stories of all those who have been before me. I am a product of each one of their lives and it shapes who I am now. I also believe you can not understand the present without knowing and understanding the past.