Tillyard Prize awarded to Laura Clarke

Congratulations to Laura Clarke, graduating this year from the Honours program in New Media Arts, who has been awarded the University's Tillyard Prize.

The Tillyard Prize is the oldest and most prestigious prize available to bachelor degree students of the University.  Originally established in 1940, the Prize is awarded to the student whose personal qualities and contribution to University life have been outstanding and who in the year of the award has completed a Degree of Bachelor with Honours.

As part of Laura's Honours thesis Documenting the Rural Way: Filmmaking Style, Practices and Ethics in Representing Rural Australia, she produced a 10-minute documentary, centred around Bill Shanley, a farmer from Cooma with an unusual collection... read more in the ANU Reporter.