AAANZ 50 Years

In 2024 the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is turning 50!

We look forward to celebrating this milestone at the annual conference in December. We will also be announcing a number of other initiatives throughout the year, and highlighting important work by our members past and present, so subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date.

Call for contributions

To celebrate AAANZ’s contribution in fostering art history, art theory, curatorship, and critical practice within the Australasia region we invite the sector to delve into their own archives and commemorate with us important ideas, individuals, and movements over the past half century. If you have materials like conference programs, newsletters, photographs, drawings or other ephemera relevant to this history we would love to hear from you.

To send us archival materials or if you have any other questions please contact admin@aaanz.info

Contributions will close November 28th, 2024.

From the archive [click for larger versions]

 

AAANZ 50 Years

We invite members past and present to contribute their memories – please feel free to answer just one or all of the questions below. Contributions will be published as part of the 50th anniversary publication, please note that we may lightly edit contributions for length and to fit the final template.

We will use this to acknowledge your contributions on the final publication so please use the wording you are happy to have published.
A general period is fine if you don’t remember the exact year (i.e. early 2000s)
We may need to get in contact so please provide a contact email or phone number. These will not be published.
Max. file size: 512 MB.
We would love to include profile pictures of contributors, these will be displayed as small round thumbnails. We will crop to fit the template. Not essential but encouraged!
The role of AAANZ for the past 50 years has been to promote and support research on, teaching of, and creation of art. Would you please share with us some short reflections on why you do this?
It is people who make AAANZ. To commemorate our 50th anniversary we would like to capture the role that key people have had in shaping art history, visual culture, curating and practice-led research. This might be a teacher, a mentor, a colleague, someone you never met but whose writing or art has shaped or reshaped your worldview. Please include their names and a brief explanation of how they have influenced you. You can name more than one person.
This might be a memory from a conference, another event, publication, etc.
Our current AAANZ archive is pretty limited and we would love any examples of past conference posters, programs, photos, etc. Especially from the years before 2010. You can post a link above if it is online or upload files below. If you aren’t sure how to share it please let us know what you have in the text area above and we will get in touch.
Drop files here or
Max. file size: 512 MB, Max. files: 5.
    Files must be under 512MB to upload. You can upload up to 5 files, if you want to send more please contact us at admin@info.aaanz