The Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence&nbsp;is awarded annually to attract leading thinkers who will develop new ideas, tools, strategies and services that benefit both Queensland’s GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector and State Library of Queensland.

The recipient receives a stipend of&nbsp;$15,000,&nbsp;a personal work space within the Neil Roberts Research Lounge for 12 months and premium access to the extensive collections and expertise of library staff.

The Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence is supported by Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser AM through the <a href="https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/foundation">Queensland Library Foundation</a>

2021 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence

The 2020&nbsp;Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence was awarded to Meredith Garlick for her project&nbsp;Reel Times: Thirty Years of Queensland Filmmaking (1990-2020).&nbsp;

“Reel Times” is a survey of Queensland filmmaking spanning the past 30 years. It looks at Queensland stories (factual or fictional), creatively driven and made by Queenslanders for local, national and international audiences. Meredith Garlick’s ambition is to understand what drives filmmakers to tell their stories, as well as to collate a complete picture of the way the state has represented itself.

Filmmaking is fundamentally a means by which we tell our stories and share our histories. Whether it is a straight-out observational documentary or a genre-bending online series, filmmakers seek to explore the world, to show us relatable characters and to shed light on forgotten, overlooked parts of our shared past. In the period of the intended research, the Queensland industry has professionalised and grown to a point where there is a rich vein of stories to explore. We might consider this the first generation of Queensland filmmaking.

2020 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence

2019 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence

The 2018&nbsp;Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence was awarded to Eddie Jose&nbsp;to give a&nbsp;masterclass at State Library to our Preservation team and&nbsp;art conservators from across Australia&nbsp;on the construction and use of traditional Japanese drying boards, called&nbsp;Karibari.&nbsp;

Ephraim (Eddie) Jose is an expert conservator and restorer of East Asian paintings, based in Seattle, USA. The masterpieces he has restored are in major museums and private collections worldwide including Ashmolean Museum, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, Tokyo National Museum, and Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. &nbsp;

After training for more than a decade under the tutelage of Japan’s most-respected master restorers,&nbsp;Eddie became the first non-Japanese conservator to be certified by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs to conserve and restore Japanese national treasures, Important Paintings (1989). He conserves Chinese, Japanese and Korean art on paper and fabric, ranging from scrolls, folding screens, and sliding doors to woodblock prints, books and textiles. He also restores Indian and Persian miniature paintings, and Western and contemporary art on paper.&nbsp;Additionally, he established and conducted bi-annual workshops training monks from monasteries across the country of Bhutan over ten years, in restoring sacred thangka paintings.&nbsp;

A documentary film, <a href="https://vimeo.com/301507121">1000 Hands of the Guru: Saving Bhutan’s Sacred Arts,</a>&nbsp;was released about Eddie Jose’s work to save and conserve Bhutanese Buddhist thangka paintings, while developing the preservation skills of their Buddhist caretakers in the remote Himalayas.

Blogs:&nbsp;

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	<a href="https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/welcome-ephraim-jose-art-conservator-and-2018-mittelheuser-scholar-residence">Welcome Ephraim Jose, art conservator and 2018 Mittelheuser scholar in residence</a>
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	<a href="https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/gift-keeps-giving-generous-progress-karibari-board-workshop">The gift that keeps on giving: Generous progress since a Karibari board workshop</a>
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	<a href="https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/conserving-unique-traditionally-mounted-east-asian-scroll-dr-barbara-piscitellis-childrens-art">Conserving a unique traditionally mounted East Asian scroll in Dr. Barbara Piscitelli’s Children’s Art Archive</a>
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Past Mittelheuser Scholars-in-Residence