Tyler Visiting Fellowship
The Tyler Visiting Fellowship is a bi-annual residential fellowship for scholars, art historians, artists, and arts practitioners living anywhere to travel to Tasmania for two weeks to conduct research on the Tyler Collection, housed within the University of Tasmania.
Applications close 13 July 2023. The Fellowship is to be undertaken in 2024.
The Fellowship award:
Exact value will vary depending on the home location of the successful applicant, airfares, and dates of travel. The successful applicant will receive a fellowship award of AUD$10,000. Additional support is available for flights, accommodation and living expenses for the duration of their visit and access accommodations can be made.
About the Tyler Collection
The Tyler Visiting Fellowship is made possible through a generous gift of Frances and Geoffrey Tyler.
The Tyler Collection has a distinctive focus on art from Romania, predominantly from 1970-80s, with complementary works of European, Australian, and American art; highlights in the collection include extensive paintings, drawings, and correspondence by Corneliu Petrescu. The collection also holds religious icons from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Bequeathed as a complete collection by Frances and Geoffrey Tyler in 2013, the collection lends itself to research and display, and artistic interrogation and response.
The Tyler Collection was bequeathed by Frances and Geoffrey Tyler in 2013 and consists predominantly of Romanian artwork from 1970s and 80s. This was a private collection developed by University of Tasmania alumnus Geoffrey Tyler during his work with the International Monetary Fund in Europe, while Romania struggled under the oppressive communist rule of Nicolae Ceausescu. The collection provides valuable insights into the importance of art as an expression of social resilience and cultural identity.
Over thirty years, the collection grew to its present size of almost 900 artworks, and includes:
- Artwork by leading Romanian artists of the time, avoiding the socialist propaganda art which was promoted by the State. Renowned artists such as Stefan Caltia, Horia Bernea, Georgeta Naparus, and Geta Bratescu are among those represented.
- 500 paintings and drawings by Corneliu Petrescu, possibly the largest single collection of this artist’s work in the world.
- A small number of Australian, European, and American artworks, including a proof edition of William Blake’s ‘Book of Job’, paintings by leading Australian artists Arthur Boyd, Leonard French, and Charles Blackman, prints by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
- An archive of weekly correspondence by post between Tyler and his friend artist Corneliu Petrescu spans the 1980s until Petrescu’s death in 2009
- A library of books (mainly about Romanian art), catalogues and posters.
- Sixty-one religious icons on wood or glass from Romania, Russia, and Greece – works dating from the 17th-20th centuries
- The Tyler Visiting Fellowship was made possible through a generous gift of Frances and Geoffrey Tyler.
How to Apply
Online applications are invited for the 2024 Tyler Visiting Fellowship.
Applicants are required to submit:
- A cover letter outlining how you would use this Fellowship to deepen engagement and scholarship with the Tyler Collection and how you will benefit from the Fellowship (maximum 2 x A4 pages) – For example, this could also be a project idea or proposal.
- A short CV (maximum 2 x A4 pages)
- A Statement of Support from 1 referee
- Any supporting materials (no more than 10 X A4 pages)
Please email your application as a single-file attachment in .pdf or MSW .docx format to cultural.collections@utas.edu.au by 13 July 2023. Use the subject line "Application for Tyler Visiting Fellowship".
All applicants will be advised during August 2023 as to the outcomes of the selection process.
Eligibility and Timeline
Eligibility
Available to any scholar, art historian, artist, or arts practitioner
Timeline
- 18 May 2023: Applications open
- 13 July 2023 11:59pm AEST: Applications close
- 9 August 2023: Short-listed applicants selected
- 10 – 17 August 2023: Interviews (virtual) conducted
- 31 August 2023: Tyler Visiting Fellow appointed for research in 2024
- 5 February 2024 – 30 November 2024: Fellowship travel to take place
- 3 February 2025 – 30 May 2025: Tyler Fellow public presentation to take place
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Contact
To speak to someone regarding the Tyler Visiting Fellowship, contact:
Rachael Rose
Registrar and Curator, Tyler Collection
and Fine Art Collection
University of Tasmania
Caine Chennatt
Director, Curatorial and Collections
University of Tasmania
General enquiries: cultural.collections@utas.edu.au
The Tyler Visiting Fellowship will be announced in August 2023.
Contact and enquiries to cultural.collections@utas.edu.au
