Author Archives: Giles Fielke

Sheridan Palmer – Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods, October 4, Buxton Contemporary

September 20, 2018Events

Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture 6pm Thu, 04. Oct Buxton Contemporary Dodds St and Southbank Blvd Southbank, VIC FREE As part of the ongoing lecture series, Histories and Theories of Sound, Discipline and Liquid Architecture present Dr Sheridan Palmer’s ‘Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods’, followed by discussion with Doug Hall AM. During the 1960s the Tasmanian artist TONY WOODS (1940 – 2017) emerged as a rare talent in the Australian art scene. An advocate of modernism’s pluralism, his bold figuration, vigorous abstract formalism, irregular shaped canvases that often incorporated collage and the readymade, was a synthesis of American […]

Talking Writing: Pasifika – Writing NSW, September 13

September 10, 2018Events

September 13 6:30pm–8pm Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect. Location: Information and Cultural Exchange 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta (Corner Villiers St), NSW Pasifika Image credit: Brian Fuata, 2015, photo by Manuela Barczewski, image courtesy of Chisenhale, London

Research Fellow Position – RMIT University, Melbourne

August 27, 2018Jobs, News

http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/caw/en/job/568161/research-fellow-arc-linkage-project The Role and Your Responsibilities The Research Fellow will be required to undertake a range of research and project management activities in line with the ARC Discovery Project’s strategy and proposal. The position will play a significant part in carrying out team based research activities that will make a significant impact in the area of art based social enterprise education and training practices with marginalised young people. You will be expected to contribute to the development of a high quality research project, and to play a lead role in the production of high quality outputs. You will be the […]

Booklaunch – What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives – Buxton Contemporary, August 16, 6-8pm

August 13, 2018Events

From Power Publications: Please join us in Melbourne for the launch of our latest publication What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly LAUNCH AND RECEPTION 6-8pm, Thursday 16 August 2018 Buxton Contemporary Dodds St &, Southbank Blvd Southbank VIC 3006 The book will be launched by Edward Colless Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. This event will bring together a dynamic discussion chaired by Dr Edward Colless, with Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry, Mimi Kelly, Hannah Mathews, Jill Orr and Mark Shorter. Light refreshments will follow the panel discussion. Register to preorder your copy to pick up at […]

Keir Lectures on Art: Professor Steven Nelson – Learning from Johannesburg, University of Melbourne, 6.30pm 20 August

August 7, 2018News

Keir Lectures on Art: Professor Steven Nelson Learning from Johannesburg: Moshekwa Langa’s Maps of Desire This lecture explores how South African-born, Amsterdam-based artist Moshekwa Langa, who spent his youth under the rule of Grand Apartheid in South Africa, trades in ethnography, the historic relations of whites and blacks, and the systems of homelands in the nation state to create collaged and drawn geographies that point to the constructed nature of official South African maps. This discussion also looks at how Langa’s work, in its mixture of languages and semiotic systems, deconstructs the authority of maps and “official” information as a means […]

The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference, ANU 4-6 September

August 7, 2018Conference, Events, News

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‘Antipodean Early Modern’ – Launch – Ian Potter Museum of Art, July 19th 6pm

July 9, 2018Events

Join us for the launch Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600, edited by Anne Dunlop. Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Date: 19th July, 6pm. In 2015 Margaret Manion curated an exhibition An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 here at The Potter. An extensive series of lectures accompanied the show. Antipodean Early Modern is a publication of the case studies presented in this series of talks. A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by […]

Support Art History at VUW

June 18, 2018Advocacy

Support Art History at VUW Art History at Victoria University of Wellington is under threat. As the result of a recent Change Proposal, the department is facing the imminent loss of a Senior Lecturer, along with its Administrator – with further staff cuts threatened in a year’s time. In order to maintain the collective excellence of the department we must strongly resist such cuts. Submissions are open on all aspects of this proposal. In order to make explicitly clear the vital role played by this department in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, we encourage you to make a […]

From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representations of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts

June 18, 2018Events

The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation presents: A Free Lecture by Dr Stefano Carboni, director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia: From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representation of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts 6pm-7pm Wednesday 27 June at the University of Melbourne The common perception about Persian miniature painting – better described as book illustration because almost invariably it has a textual, literary or oral context – is that it is elegant, colourful, rather formal in composition, and overall restrained in the way the characters are emotionally involved in a particular moment of the story. Persian […]

Queen’s Birthday Honours

June 14, 2018Member News, News

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is delighted to report that two significant members of the art and art history community were recognised on the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Both recipients have had an enormous and significant impact on their respective fields and the awards are an indication of the esteem in which members of the art-related professions are held in this country and internationally. Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate received the Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for eminent service to higher education, particularly to art history and theory and to the advanced […]