Creative Australia has announced this year's recipients of the prestigious 2023 Creative Australia Fellowships valued at $80,000 over two years. Open to established artists, the Fellowships support creativity and professional development. Amongst this years' nine Fellowship recipients are First Nations musician Shellie Morris, well-known writer Alice Pung, and award-winning theatre maker of Counting and Cracking Shakthidharan Sivanathan. First Nations composer Brenda Gifford will use her Fellowship to compose a new string quintet song cycle, describing her own (Yuin) and other First Nations peoples' connections to water.

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