Congratulations to the following winners of the AAANZ Book Prizes and the PhD Prize for 2016, as announced at the AAANZ conference in Canberra.
The full citations for the prize winners will be published on the prizes page soon.
Best Book | Mary Roberts, Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2015)
Best Anthology | Not Awarded in 2016
Best Large Exhibition Catalogue | Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices, eds. James Bennett and Russell Kelty (Adelaide: AGSA and Perth: AGWA, 2015)
Best Small Exhibition Catalogue | Derek Kreckler: Accidents and Process, ed. Hannah Matthews (Melbourne: Perimeter Books, 2015)
Best Scholarly Article in the ANZJA | Stephen Turner, ‘The Parasitical Historiography of Ann Shelton’s Photography,’ ANZJA, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2015), pp. 37-51.
Best Art Writing By an Indigenous Australian | Greg Lehman, ‘Benjamin Duterrau: The Art of Conciliation,’ Journal of War and Culture Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 107-24.
Best Art Writing by a NZ Māori or Pacific Islander | Rangihiroa Panoho, Māori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape and Theory (Auckland: David Bateman 2015)
Best University Art Museums Catalogue | Peter Hennessey – Making It Real, curated by Samantha Littley (Brisbane: UQ Art Museum, 2015)
Best Artist Book | Christopher LG Hill, Endless Lonely Planet (Melbourne, 2015)
Best PhD Prize | Helen Hughes, ‘Mike Nelson’s Hybrid Scripts’ (University of Melbourne, 2015)