Monthly Archives: July 2026

2026 AAANZ PhD Prize Practice-led Now Open

Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated practice-led PhD students to enter the 2026 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize was reviewed by the AAANZ Prize Committee in consideration of feedback received from the judging panel. In 2024 the PhD Prize was split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize was research-based with the eligible period for award of PhD from July 2023 to the prize […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | Call for Papers Close this Friday, 24 July

AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSE THIS FRIDAY 24 JULY Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, has 36 panels seeking paper proposals, and a further 10 streams and panels being specially curated with speakers from across the region.  If you would like to deliver a paper at the conference, you can now apply to join one of the panels listed on our website.  Included are panels that speak to the conference theme Haereka, journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, and migration in art across Aotearoa New Zealand, the […]

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Symposium | The Cost of Crime

Events

The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust presents a one day symposium ‘The Cost of Art Crime’ Date: Sat 19 September 2026 Time: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm Venue: Auditorium, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Cost: Student $70.  Early bird (until 31 July) $120 Full price (from 1 August) $135. For more information and first speakers announcements and to register: https://artcrime.nz/

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Event | Blue Art Journal Volume Two Launch

Events, Journal

Time feels slippery and beyond our control. But through this issue an array of incredible artists, writers and thinkers are offering ways to rethink its framing and stretch its limitations, a pivotal act for those of us who work in the arts. Announcing Volume Two Guest Editors Blue Art Journal is pleased to welcome Timmah Ball and Zali Morgan as guest editors of the next Volume. Two Noongar women whose practices cross curatorial, visual art and text-based practices, their Volume features writers, artists and perspectives that span between coasts of so-called Australia. Meet them below. Selected contributors include: Dominic Guerrera with James Tylor, […]

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ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs close 28 August

AWAPA, Award, Prizes

Recognising the best in art writing and research across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN Highlighting the vitality of art writing and publishing in the region, the AWAPAs acknowledge the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the bredth of knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design, celebrating achievements writers make to the field through: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area and impact on scholarly debate in the field Significance of the topic to the […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | Call for Papers Close 24 July

AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples who have traversed and first settled the mountain ranges, plains, and coastlines of Te Waipounamu South Island. We invite proposals that engage with ideas of journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | First Nations Stream: On Country | Proposals Close 4 September

AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels, Call for Papers, First Nations Stream

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples who have traversed and first settled the mountain ranges, plains, and coastlines of Te Waipounamu South Island. We invite proposals that engage with ideas of journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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Event | Looking both ways: Art exchanges between Australia and Indonesia | John Curtin Gallery

Events

Prompted by the exhibition Pasar Malam | Night Market, and staged in association with Curtin University’s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Enquiry, this half-day seminar explores the relationships between Australia and Indonesia around contemporary art. Starting with a focus on the Artists’ Regional Exchange (ARX) series of events in Perth from 1987 to 1999, it will go on to explore current engagements between the two countries and opportunities to develop the relationship in the future. Featuring speakers from Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the […]

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ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs close 28 August

AWAPA, Award, Prizes

Recognising the best in art writing and research across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN Highlighting the vitality of art writing and publishing in the region, the AWAPAs acknowledge the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the bredth of knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design, celebrating achievements writers make to the field through: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area and impact on scholarly debate in the field Significance of the topic to the […]

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Proposals Open | First Nations Stream: On Country | AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka

AAANZ Conference, First Nations Stream

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples who have traversed and first settled the mountain ranges, plains, and coastlines of Te Waipounamu South Island. We invite proposals that engage with ideas of journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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