Awards and Scholarships

Stella Young Award

We cherish the memory of our collaborator Stella Young and honour her by awarding a young Australian disabled artist each year with $3,000.

This is a great opportunity for disabled artists aged 16 – 30 to be recognised for their impact on disability activism and culture through their artistic practice in comedy, performing arts or screen culture.

The Stella Young Award recognises Stella’s impact on society through her early work with Disability Media Australia. In particular, the program ‘No Limits’, which challenged the representation of disability in Australian screen. As Stella said, “You get proud by practicing”.

The award is made possible by the amazing work and legacy of Disability Media Australia (formerly Grit Media). We thank everyone involved with the organisation and those involved in the production of ‘No Limits’.

Stella Young.

Two women talking to each other. The one on the right is Lesley Hall.

Lesley Hall Arts and Disability Scholarship

The Lesley Hall Scholarship is an annual program for Victorian Deaf and Disabled artists and advocates. The scholarship prize is a $5,000 grant and support from Arts Access Victoria.

The program supports the winner in their artistic practice. It is expected that the winner, through their work, challenges assumptions about disability. Artists can be from a range of mediums including visual art, photography, poetry, writing, short film or a theatrical or dance piece.

Through this scholarship, we honour the activism and legacy of our late Board Chair Lesley Hall. Lesley was a tireless advocate for the human rights of disabled people. She became famous for protesting the Miss Australia Quest in 1981. And she influenced the formation of the NDIS, amongst many other achievements.

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Awards and Scholarships

Stella Young Award

Lesley Hall Arts and Disability Scholarship

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