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Past fellows and recipients

Explore past fellows and award winners, their research projects, and the ways they have documented, preserved, and shared Queensland’s history.

2026 State Library Fellowships and Medals recipients.
2026 State Library Fellowships and Medals recipients
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Black and white photograph of a young Christina Boughen.
Christina Boughen OAM Fellowship
2023-2024: This fellowship explored influential musician Christina Boughen’s career and legacy.
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Image showing the silhouette of two show rides at the Ekka against a dusk, the sky is a mix of blue shades.
Royal Queensland Show (EKKA) Fellowship
2025-2026: The Royal Queensland Show (Ekka) Fellowship supports research into the history of the Ekka .
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Reconstructed wallpaper pattern ‘Rinaultrie’, Colourway C, digital drawing by Anna Rowe. Colours inspired by Furnishing fabric, 1903, Steiner & Co, 1903, Accession number: T.171-1957, V&A Museum, London. (8)
Digital collections catalyst
2021-2026: This fellowship is awarded to projects that use computational methods, such as machine learning, generative AI, and other tools with State Library’s digital collections.
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Mittelheuser Scholar in Residence Greer Townshend
Mittelheuser Scholar in Residence
2017-2022: This residency attracted leading thinkers who developed ideas benefiting Queensland’s GLAM sector.
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Peters Ice Cream worker Darlia Loula Argyris packing icecreams for dispatch at the Peters Ice Cream Factory, West End in Brisbane
Place Making Fellowship
2019: this fellowship explored the histories of Queensland’s iconic sites, focusing on Peters Ice Cream Factory in West End.
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Members of the original staff standing near the Buderim Ginger Factory, 1941
Queensland Business History Award
2013-2019: This award recognised leadership in preserving Queensland's business history.
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Four Australian soldiers in the trenches at Gallipoli, 1915
Q ANZAC 100: memories for a new generation fellows
2015-2018: These fellowships explored Queensland's experience of the First World War and its aftermath.
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Siganto Foundation Fellows
2012-2017: These fellowships created new Artists' Books for State Library's Australian Library of Art collection.
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