Congratulations to the following winners of the AAANZ Book Prizes and the PhD Prize for 2019, as announced at the AAANZ conference in Auckland.
The full citations and judges comments for the prize winners click here.
Best Book | Susan Lowish, ‘Rethinking Australia’s Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art’ (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
Best Anthology | Sean Mallon and Sébastien Gallio, ‘Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing’ (Wellington: Te Papa Press and New South Publishing, 2018)
Best Anthology: runner-up | Stephen H Whiteman, Sarena Abdullah, Yvonne Low and Phoebe Scott (eds.), ‘Ambitious Alignments:New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990‘ (University of Sydney: Power Publications and National Gallery Singapore, 2018)
Best Anthology: highly commended | Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.), ‘Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor’ (Auckland: Massey University Press, 2018)
Best Large Exhibition Catalogue | Cathy Leahy, et al. ‘Escher X nendo ǀ Between Two Worlds’ (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2018)
Best Small Exhibition Catalogue: winner 1 | Darren Jorgensen (ed.) ‘Bush Women’ (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre, 2018)
Best Small Exhibition Catalogue: winner 2 | ‘The Field Revisited’ (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2018)
Best Small Exhibition Catalogue: highly commended | Cara Pinchbeck (ed.), ‘Nongirringa Marawili: From My Heart and Mind’ (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2018)
Best Scholarly Article in the ANZJA | Katherine Guinness, ‘Hard at Play: Zaniness and Labour in Contemporary Art’, ‘ANZJA’, 18:1,(2018) 90-107
Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Australian | Hetti Perkins, ‘Mardayin Maestro’ in ‘John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New’ (Sydney, Adelaide: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia, 2018)
Best Art Writing by a NZ Māori or Pasifika | Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot, ‘Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing’ (Wellington: Te Papa Press and New South Publishing, 2018)
Best Art Writing by a NZ Māori or Pasifika: highly commended | Dougal Austin, ‘Te Hei Tiki: An Enduring Treasure in a Cultural Continuum’ (Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2019)
Best Art Writing by a NZ Māori or Pasifika: highly commended | Awhina Tamarapa (ed.), ‘Whatu Kākahu: Māori Cloaks’ (Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2019)
Best Artist-led Publication: Essay / Catalogue / Book Prize | Clegg, David, ‘loca projects / correction’ (New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2018)
Best University Art Museum Catalogue | Dianne Byrne, et al, ‘With Heart and Hand: Art Pottery in Queensland 1900-1950’ (South Bank: Griffith University Art Museum, 2018)
Best PhD Graduate Prize | Louise Rollman ‘Curating the City: Unpacking Contemporary Art Production and Spatial Politics in Brisbane’ (PhD, Queensland University of Technology, 2018)