Author Archives: Giles Fielke

Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes

October 18, 2018General, Member News

Introducing a new history of Australia art and its exhibitions. Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes (Thames and Hudson https://www.thamesandhudsonaustralia.com/product-page/australian-art-exhibitions) Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis, and Catherine Speck combine to reveal different histories of Australian art and new visions of an Australia that have been hiding in plain sight. It challenges previous accounts of Australian art history as it combines an analysis of art and its display in public art museums with an examination of the ways exhibitions have been funded as well as the growth of the curatorial and associated professions. The extensive text is […]

Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018 – University of Melbourne

October 18, 2018Events

The Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018 ‘I Can Connect” – the Power of Curating to Share Experiences Speaker: Professor Michael Tooby, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University Ursula Hoff’s career is a vivid example of dedication to curatorial expertise. At the same time, her extraordinary life story warrants retelling and sharing, not least as a warning from history of the need to challenge racism and prejudice towards migrants. In his lecture, Professor Michael Tooby will explore how testimony has played a key role in his recent curatorial projects. His starting point will be the use […]

Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History – James Meyer The Double: Return and Reenactment – Monash University

October 12, 2018Events

Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History – James Meyer The Double: Return and Reenactment – Monash University The upcoming lecture, The Double: Return and Reenactment, presented by U.S.-based curator James Meyer is the inaugural Monash University Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History. Tuesday 23 October 2018 @ 6.30pm The Pavilion, Building H, Level 8 Monash University, Caulfield campus 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East, VIC In his talk, Meyer will draw from his forthcoming book, The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture (University of Chicago Press) and discuss how movements of the “long Sixties” (1955-1979) – including […]

Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship

October 12, 2018Funding

Applications are now open for the generous Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship for emerging artists and Australian Art History graduates. link: https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=%5bUNIQID%5d&u=9c54170160562ed03e0e542ba&id=637e7e644c image: Vida Lahey, Building the Bridge (1931)

Love from Damascus – Art Gallery of South Australia and the University of Adelaide

October 11, 2018Events

LOVE FROM DAMASCUS FRI 9 & SAT 10 NOV ART EXHIBITION II BOOK LAUNCH II SYMPOSIUM ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE Link: https://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Events/Love_From_Damascus_Symposium Link: https://www.ozasiafestival.com.au/events/love-from-damascus/ Love from Damascus is a half day symposium looking at conceptions of love by an eminent 18th-century Syrian mystic and related stories of art and culture. Hosted by Samer Akkach and James Bennett, the event features invited experts and panels covering Sufism and the evolving nature of Islamic arts and culture across the vast continent of Asia over many centuries. The symposium coincides with a launch for the new book ʿIlm: Science, Religion, […]

Harold Wright and Sarah & William Holmes Scholarships – Call for applications

October 4, 2018Funding

Prestigious international prints and drawings opportunity- Call for applications Dear friends and colleagues, Applications for the $22,000 Harold Wright and Sarah & William Holmes Scholarships are now open. Awarded jointly, the scholarships allow the recipient to carry out an intensive study of prints at the British Museum in London for a period of 3-12 months. These scholarships are very prestigious, with previous recipients holding positions in museums, galleries and collections throughout the world. The placement will commence in 2019, with exact timing subject to availability at the British Museum. ELIGIBILITY The opportunity is open to graduates […]

Symposia: Minimalist/Maximalist, National Gallery of Australia, 19-20 October

September 27, 2018Conference, Events

This symposium explores a key period in American art to focus on two tendencies generally regarded as polar opposites—minimalism and photo-realism. Minimalism’s impact is traced in works using light, land and installation art, as well as through feminist practice and in architecture, to examine resonances today. The importance of realism, a much-neglected aspect of the period, is also considered. Building on from two highly successful past events—Action. Painting. Now. (NGA 2012) and Minimal. Conceptual. Pop. (AGNSW 2013)—this symposium seeks to expand the dialogue between American and Australian artists, art historians and cultural critics. Keynote speaker James Meyer, National Gallery of Art, Washington […]

ANU – Professor of Art History and Curatorship

September 27, 2018Jobs

The Centre for Art History and Theory at the Australian National University is hiring a Professor of Art History and Curatorship (open field). This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead one of the most exciting art history departments in Australia, if not the world! Please see the position description below. [gview file=”https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SOAD-Prof-Art_History_Curatorship-PD_PEWER-2018.pdf”]

Graphic Encounters Conference – Arts West, University of Melbourne, 7-9 November 2018

September 24, 2018Conference

GRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS (MELBOURNE, 7-9 NOV 18) Dr. Liz Conor Arts West, The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia 11/07/2018-11/09/2018, 9am-5pm To be held 7-9 November in Melbourne, the Graphic Encounters conference will be presented by La Trobe’s Department of Archaeology and History and the Centre for the Studies of the Inland. The conference hopes to provide a welcoming, inclusive forum in which conversations can be started, and in some cases continued, on prints depicting Aboriginal Australians. There are many, diverse people interested in this colonial visual archive within and beyond the academy – scholars, librarians, bibliophiles, art historians, curators, artists, collectors, […]

AAANZ Conference: A Masterclass with Professor Griselda Pollock at RMIT

September 21, 2018AAANZ Conference

“To create transgenerational democratic space for the continuing virtuality of feminism, we need historical understanding of feminism itself that is different from the currently fracturing caricature of generations at war and waves of novelty” (Pollock 2016, 57). Griselda Pollock will be presenting a masterclass for interested HDR candidates and early career researchers as part of the AAANZ Annual Conference at RMIT University on Tuesday 4 December 2018. We are seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers whose work engages with the themes of trauma, feminism, transgenerational feminism, virtuality and affect. The masterclass will involve critical responses to two recent […]