Monthly Archives: September 2025

Notice of General Meeting Monday 13 October 2025

September 29, 2025Membership, News

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will hold a General Meeting as follows: Date: Monday 13 October 2025 Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (NZST), 1.00 – 2.00 pm (AEST), 11.30 am – 12.30 pm (ACST), 10.00 – 11.00 am (AWST) Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89956811210?from=addon AAANZ requires a quorum for this meeting please register if you are attending here Documents: Agenda Proxy Form Notification of agenda items for actioning: Item: 5 In accordance with Section 24 of the Associations Incorporation Act 1985 (SA) the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand alters its rules to add two additional clauses, 21.6 to section […]

AAANZ 2025 conference: Unruly Objects | Early bird registration open

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or brimming […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference | Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pasifika registration

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference | Low income bursary | Applications close 13 October

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference | First Nations Open Panel | Submissions due Friday 3 October

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels, Call for Papers

Unruly Art in the Colony – Sovereign Art Histories: First Nations Open Panel Jess, one of the conference organizers for this years conference, themed Unruly Objects, at the University of Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar boodja invites First Nations friends to particpate in an open panel for the conference Unruly Art in the Colony – Sovereign Art Histories. As a Palyku woman and Indigenous Studies academic, Jess would love for this edition to create a real space for First Nations art histories and stories, welcoming feedback and ideas from First Nations friends anytime. Jess can be reached on email jessyca.hutchens@uwa.edu.au or phone 0476 591 […]

AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline 31 October

September 29, 2025Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline 31 December

September 29, 2025ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Jaye Early, Dr Shuxia Chen, and Dr Kasia Jezowska. The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and […]

RESEARCH SURVEY | Public Art and its Role in Connecting People and Place

September 29, 2025News

RESEARCH SURVEY | Public Art and its Role in Connecting People and Place: the social benefits provided by public art at Sydney Metro stations This research on everyday experiences of public art at Sydney Metro and Train Stations in Sydney, Australia. Please take the survey and to circulate with your networks! The study examines metro user experience and local opinions to inform best practice for future public art investment. The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete, and you can enter to win one of ten $100 Coles gift vouchers in the prize draw at the end of the survey. […]

Open Letter to Hon. Erica Stanford, Minister of Education: Why Art History Matters

September 25, 2025AdvocacyAdvocacy

This letter was published on the website of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. See the original here. 19 September 2025 We write as representatives of Aotearoa New Zealand’s arts and cultural sector to express our shared concern about the suggested removal of Art History from the New Zealand Secondary School Curriculum. Art History develops critical 21st-century skills In a world increasingly dominated by images, Art History provides essential skills. It teaches analytical and critical reasoning, alongside strong written, visual and cultural literacy skills. It also builds awareness that images carry ideas and diverse perspectives. Art History is an interdisciplinary […]

Protesting the Removal of Art History from the New Zealand Secondary School Curriculum

September 25, 2025AdvocacyAdvocacy

AAANZ has added its voice to the protests against the proposed removal of art history from the New Zealand School Curriculum. The AAANZ President Katrina Grant and Aotearoa New Zealand representatives Raymond Spiteri, Linda Tyler and Caroline Vercoe have written to Minister Erica Stanford protesting this proposal: Letter regarding proposed removal of art history in NZ schools We write as representatives of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation that represents hundreds of professional art historians, curators, artists and writers across both Australia and New Zealand. As an organisation we are deeply concerned at the announcement that […]