Actor, writer and director Christopher Carroll has been announced as the 2024 Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation Fellow.

Carroll, one of Canberra’s busiest actors, will use the fellowship, which has a value of up to $15,000 and is jointly funded through the sale of donated art and business items at the annual fundraiser, to work on Crims, a new physical theatre work based on real-life stories from Sydney’s criminal underworld in the early 1900s.

The Mandy Martin Art & Environment Award was awarded to Erica Secombe, who will use the award to create new work exploring Laser-Cuts and AI imagery, while the Rosalie Gascoigne Memorial Award went to Surya Bajracharya to support a residency at Megalo Print Studio.

Other awards included:

• Sophie Dumaresq won an award to create an animatronic 6-metre-long shark.
• Rosalind Lemoh won an award to create new contemporary sculpture works in metal and glass.
• Elsa Huber has been funded to make audiovisual recordings of herself singing with an associate pianist.
• Alice van Meurs has funding for a new clothing collection with artist Sarrita King.
• Apeiron Baroque’s John Ma has been helped to fund student guest artists.
• The Outstanding Practice Award was won by Sarit Cohen for building plaster cast moulds for larger work.
• Belinda Jessup won an award for a solo exhibition of machine-embroidered textiles focusing on birds and trees of the ACT.
• Sammy Hawker was given an award to finalise production of new work for upcoming solo shows.
• Kevin Bradley won an award that will go towards the purchase of a CNC router.
• Two Performance Awards went to Apeiron Baroque and designer Samuel Townsend.
• An award was presented to John Brookes, which will go towards the exhibition Unconditional.
• Nigel Dobson won an award to assist with supporting a three-month residency in Paris in 2025.
• The Sculpture Award went to Madisyn Zabel to support Axis, a solo glass exhibition at Woollahra Gallery from April to May 2025.
• The Creative Writing Prize was awarded to Maura Pierlot to support a chapbook, The Archaeology of Loss.
• Emerging Artist Awards went to Lesley Andersen for a project encompassing a screen-printed edition of abstract works on paper; Jemina Parker who will develop a contemporary fiction young adult manuscript, Stitch by Stitch; Emily Kerr who will work towards developing advanced technical and artistic skills in residence at Kouraku Kiln in Japan; musician Micah Heathwood; porcelain artist Emily Kerr and artist Sophie Constable.