120 people applied for The Glue Society’s inaugural Glue Society Fellowship, which is hardly surprising given the collective’s creative reputation throughout adland, at home and globally.
The purpose of the Glue Society Fellowship is to give young people the chance to establish their creative identity quicker than may happen with conventional creative placements. To do that, it will foster their abilities in both idea and execution, guiding them along an accelerated path.
“Far from requiring overt training, we imagine this group of creative people will be contributing their enthusiasm and energies to live projects as well as learning new skills across the multitude of disciplines we work across here – whether artistic endeavours, project direction or the creation of content,” The Glue Society founder, Jonathan Kneebone, noted.
Four candidates have been chosen for the 2016/17 Glue Society Fellowship. They are: Kate Davies, Alice Cogin, Max Rapley and Alexander Harrod.
Glue Society Fellowship Group (clockwise from top left): Alexander Harrod, Kate Davies, Max Rapley, Alice Cogin
“We were astonished at both the number of applications we received for our first ever fellowship – and blown away by the quality and range of skills on display from the vast majority of the candidates.
“We narrowed our choice to 20 profoundly talented people who were all worthy of a place on the scheme, and in the end chose the four people we feel would most benefit from their year working alongside us.”
The Glue Society collective is:
Jonathan Kneebone (TAC, VW Naked Ute, Masterfoods)
Paul Bruty (CGU, Telstra Air, ANB Footify)
Pete Baker (History Channel, Headspace, GayTM/GayNZ)
Luke Crethar (David Jones, Aldi, News.Com)
Luke Nuto (42 Below, ABC, Elle Macpherson)
…and co-founder Gary Freedman (HSBC, IKEA, Doritos)
Glue Society alumni include:
Ruth Belloti, Matty Burton, Dave Bowman, Celia Nicholas, Matt Devine, Sam Hibbard, Brigid Arnott, Paul Bruce, Bec Newman, James Dive, Chris Riggert, Dave Tomkins, James Harvey and Emily Manning.
This is The Glue Society’s 19th year of rewriting what great creativity is. It is represented by Revolver and Will O’Rourke for film and project direction.