University of Otago announces 2025 Arts Fellows

By Division of Humanities, University of Otago | Posted: Monday Oct 14, 2024

Otago’s Arts Fellows for 2025 have been selected. The Fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year and space on campus to pursue their creative projects.

Te Kete Aronui - Division of Humanities interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Hugh Campbell, says it is a great pleasure and privilege for the Division to host these artists.

“These Fellowships are precious, and we are so grateful to the benefactors who have established and maintained them. The Fellows often marvel at the creative freedom gained through the stability of the Fellowships. Our communities benefit from having these artists here, who all seek to collaborate, connect, and enrich.”

Ngā mihi nui to the five Fellows for 2025:

• The Frances Hodgkins Fellow: Reece King

• The Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance: Dr Carol Brown

• The Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence: Samantha Montgomerie

• The Robert Burns Fellow: Dr Octavia Cade

• The Mozart Fellow: Dr Simon Eastwood

The Fellows receive a stipend for between six months and one year and space on campus to pursue their creative projects.

Read more about these talented artists, and their plans during their time in Ōtepoti here: Otago announces 2025 Arts Fellows | University of Otago