Monthly Archives: September 2024

Publication | All my Country: Batchelor Institute Art Collection

Book

All my Country is the first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades-long life of the Institute. The BIITE Art Collection comprises around 1000 artworks primarily by Indigenous artists from the Top End. The Collection began as a place-making initiative to make the campus more familiar to BIITE students, eventually becoming a more formalised entity with an advisory committee and curatorial roles, and supported by an artist-residency program. The title All my Country comes from the book’s editor-in-chief Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig, a Kungarakan and […]

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Publication | New Women’s Work

Book

New Women’s Work is a celebration of women’s work.  Often underappreciated and undervalued, craft has long been an expression of artistic endeavour for women.  Often, it’s a skill transferred for generations, or it may be a livelihood or a way of connecting with an ancestral homeland.  But crafts with feminized histories, such as weaving, knotmaking, needlework, quilting, ceramics, and basketry, have historically lacked serious consideration from the art world. New Women’s Work serves to challenge this by featuring 38 contemporary artists who identify as women or nonbinary, working to reposition women’s work techniques.  These artists are carrying cultural legacies into the future, preserving history and […]

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AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECOND KEYNOTE KIMBERLEY MOULTON

AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2024 conference convenors are delighted to announce keynote Kimberley Moulton. Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman based between Melbourne and London. She is an accomplished Senior Curator and writer and is Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art at Tate Modern and Senior Curator at RISING, Melbourne’s international arts festival. Previously Kimberley held Senior curatorial roles at Museums Victoria (2008-2023).  Kimberley works with knowledge, histories and futures at the intersection of historical collections and contemporary art and her practice works to rethink global art histories and extend what exhibitions and research in and out of institutions can be for First Peoples communities […]

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