Author Archives: Giles Fielke

AAANZ Conference 2017 ‘Art and Its Directions’ – Special Event

July 10, 2017Conference, News

SPECIAL VIEWING OF THE KERRY STOKES COLLECTION Thursday 7 December 5.30 – 7.30pm Guests arrive 5.30pm Welcome drinks followed by collection viewing from 6.00pm The Kerry Stokes Collection is one of Australia’s largest, most diverse and prestigious private collections. It comprises Australian paintings from the colonial period through to contemporary Australian and Indigenous works. The collection also includes works by major international artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Henry Matisse, Claude Monet and René Magritte. Its diversity is reflected in a lively and eclectic mix of acquisitions comprising of maps, rare books, manuscripts, documents, illuminated manuscripts including incunabula and early printed books, […]

Call for Papers – FRAN (Feminist Renewal Art Network) Symposium: Feminism, Art and Activism 40 years – Art Gallery of South Australia

July 10, 2017Call for Papers

Call for papers FRANFEST (Feminist Renewal Art Network) Symposium: Feminism, Art and Activism 40 years 16-17 September 2017 Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary feminist practices: 16 September Gender and the Museum: 17 September FRANFest to be held in South Australia, is a month-long, multi-venue event highlighting the work of women (and gender-diverse and non-binary) artists from 25 August-24 September 2017. The aim of the festival is to survey the history and contemporary practice of art that is aligned with feminist concerns and, where relevant, to acknowledge Adelaide-based developments. FRANFest commemorates an event 40 years ago, The Women’s Show […]

Diana Dethlof lecture: ‘Re-visiting Peter Lely’ – Melbourne University July 12 2017

July 10, 2017General, News

Diana Dethlof, ‘ Revisiting Peter Lely’ a Dutch Painter in seventeenth-century London History of Art, University College, London The Dutch-born artist Peter Lely was an important figure in seventeenth-century British portrait painting. His position as Principal Painter at the court of Charles II, and his portraits of royal mistresses and privileged courtiers have, for many, come to define the Restoration period, as well as earning Lely the reputation of being nothing more than a fashionable face painter. This lecture aims to present a more balanced assessment of an artist who enjoyed a working life of almost forty years, only half […]

Queensland University of Technology: Professor of Creative Innovation and Director of QUT Creative Lab, Creative Industries Faculty

July 6, 2017Jobs

Position Title Professor of Creative Innovation and Director of QUT Creative Lab Vacancy Ref. number 3113 Closing Date 28 July 2017 Organisational Area Creative Industries Faculty Campus Kelvin Grove campus Remuneration $AUD206,729 (LEVE) (inclusive of $AUD174,688 pa salary, 17% superannuation and 17.5% recreation leave loading) Status Fixed-term, full-time for five years Contact Pauline Lam, Senior Research Associate, +61 (0)2 8354 4000 or Pauline.Lam@perrettlaver.com Open to Domestic and International applicants. Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. For further information regarding the role and how to apply, please contact Pauline Lam on Pauline.Lam@perrettlaver.com or +61 (02) 8354 4000. A copy of the candidate […]

Conference 2017: Art and Its Directions – Keynote Speakers

July 3, 2017AAANZ Conference, ConferenceAAANZ conference

The conference committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for this years conference: Professor Anne Dunlop holds the Herald Chair in Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. She has also taught at Yale University and at Tulane University. She works on Italian and European art in the later Middle Ages and early modern period, and for several years now has been researching and writing on the links between Italy and Eurasia in the Mongol period. She has been a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, at Peking University, and at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, […]

One day event at the VCA – Some artists and philosophers walked into a room

July 3, 2017News

Tuesday 11 July, 2017 – 9.30am-5.30pm Theme: A work might be experienced in numerous ways—in person, online, across multiple versions, as a record, diagram, report, description, witness account, podcast, video, plan, remix, or even as a scalable aggregate of elements. Perhaps, once we consider the world of a work of art as a constellation of elements, the indeterminacy of art is given a more conspicuous materiality. Where is a work of art? Is there an optimum or primary point of entry into a work of art? Chairs: Sean Lowry (VCA) and Jenny McMahon (Philosophy, Adelaide) Presenters: Barbara Bolt, Elizabeth Burns […]

Upcoming Events at the Art Gallery of NSW

July 3, 2017NewsArt Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Philosophy and Art Symposium: Where is the Artwork? Register for a one-day event at the AGNSW taking place this Saturday, July 15 from 9.30-4.30. Five philosophers will each give a short floor talk on a particular artwork in the AGNSW collection. It is then opened up for discussion. There will be some commentators on hand to prompt the discussion. Registration and more details are here: http://artgalleryofnsw.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/103346D45AF673302540EF23F30FEDED Cynthia Freeland is giving a talk: “Do Portraits require posing?” Wednesday July 12th at 6.00pm at the AGNSW. In the lead up to this year’s Archibald Prize, Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN ISSUE: AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART, ISSUE 1, 2018

July 3, 2017Call for Papers, News

Issue 1, 2018 Open Issue Issue editors: Professor Deborah Ascher Barnstone, (University of Technology, Sydney), and Dr Donna West Brett (University of Sydney). Journal aims and scope The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. ANZJA is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, theory and exhibition. The editors […]

Symposium: The Arts and Imagination – Art Gallery of SA – July 3

June 29, 2017General

Outreach Session of the Australasian Association of Philosophy 2017, jointly organised with the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (JMCCCP), the Art Gallery of South Australia, and partly sponsored by the Australian Research Council and the American Society for Aesthetics. Date: Monday afternoon July 3rd Time: 2.00-5.00 Venue: Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of SA (AGSA) Title: Myths, metaphors and tropes: the narratives which guide studio practice Cost: Free and all welcome. Tea and coffee will be provided. No registration required. The session is a component of a workshop on the Arts and Imagination which runs as part of the […]

CFP: The Transnational in Asian Art, Graduate Workshop, September 28 2017, ANU

June 19, 2017News

Call for Papers: Intensive Graduate PhD students Workshop The Transnational in Asian Art: Historical and Contemporary Contexts around Migration, Diaspora, Mobility and Cultural Flows Date: 28 September 2017 Location: Centre for European Studies, Australian National University and National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Conveners: Caroline Turner, Jacqueline Lo, Elly Kent, Alex Burchmore (ANU) Lead speaker: Emeritus Professor Margo Machida (University of Connecticut) The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University Canberra is issuing a call to PhD scholars who would like to participate and present short papers on their thesis research, in an intensive one day Workshop on 28 September 2017 […]