Author Archives: Katrina Grant

Virtual Lecture | Mavis Ngallametta’s Emotional Ecology – Sally Butler | QAGOMA

July 16, 2020Events

VIRTUAL LECTURE: MAVIS NGALLAMETTA’S EMOTIONAL ECOLOGY 10.30am, Sat 18 July | Online via Zoom | FREE | BOOK NOW Hear from Sally Butler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Queensland, as she discusses Mavis Ngallametta’s later large canvas paintings through the lens of emotional ecology. Discover how Mavis Ngallametta’s paintings reflect an intimate, emotional knowledge of her country, functioning more as spiritual portraits of place rather than landscapes, through the unique methods she used to personalise the locations she portrayed. Free / Bookings Required / This event is a webinar. Participant’s webcam and microphone will be disabled. Proudly presented by HSBC. Check out […]

New Book | Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age – Natalia Grincheva

July 10, 2020Publication

New book from Natalia Grincheva . It explores online museum spaces as sites of contemporary diplomacy across the largest museums in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In the time of the post(pandemic) “digital lockdown” this book offers timely, useful and illuminating insights on how museums can retain their global visibility, engage their local and international audiences and offer meaningful interactive learning experiences. You can read a teaser here. The book is currently on discount sale at Routledge. Please, share this link with your library to order a hard copy. Book reviews are very welcome! Please request an inspection copy by following the link or email the author.

Call for Papers | Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

July 7, 2020Call for Papers

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art Forum: Blind Spots Guest-edited by Isabel Taube and Anne Monahan Inspired by current efforts to reckon with ongoing, systemic racism, we invite proposals for a forum in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art (Fall 2020) focused on blind spots, especially but not only related to race, that condition and constrain our research and writing. How might unexamined assumptions at the heart of our work in the academy and museum inadvertently perpetuate biases, stereotypes, and generalizations we mean to dismantle in and well beyond art history? We […]

Online exhibition from University of Tasmania creative arts and media students

June 29, 2020Exhibition, Teaching and LearningDigital Exhibition, Exhibition, University of Tasmania

During lockdown, 30 creative arts and media students from the University of Tasmania produced a virtual art for a virtual exhibition at Domain House in Hobart. View the exhibition here: https://www.utas.edu.au/creative-arts-media/events/domain From the UTAS DOMAIN website: During the course of Semester One, 2020, students in Making the Event were invited to respond to the historical, material, social and educational legacies of Domain House and its surrounds. Some students have interpreted this through dramatic and musical representations of the various eras that have been experienced within the walls of the building, while others have evoked a parallel history for the site. Of interest […]

PhD Scholarship: Visual Medical Humanities | Australian National University

June 29, 2020FundingArt and Medicine, Funding, PhD Scholarship

The Australian National University is offering a PhD scholarship for a candidate interested in Art History, Visual and Material Culture, Medical History, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies or, preferably, a combination of the above. The candidate will work with Dr. Keren Hammerschlag, with funding from the ANU Futures Scheme, on a topic related to the Visual Medical Humanities. The Visual Medical Humanities, which encompasses museum studies, art history and art practice, has been recognised as a major area for research and teaching innovation in the new critical Medical Humanities. In the Medical Humanities, medicine engages with the humanities, social sciences, and […]

Joanna Mendelssohn | Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently

June 25, 2020Advocacy, News

Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently Thennicke/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne On September 10 1965, Sir Robert Menzies commissioned the National Art Gallery Committee of Inquiry to consider the establishment of a national gallery for Australia. The resulting Lindsay Report, published in 1966, is an ambitious document, describing an art gallery to serve the nation through the quality and range of its collections and exhibitions. It emphasised the need to have an all encompassing collection of Australian art. The report recognised, […]

Videos online from The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context symposium

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context October 3-4 2019 National Art School, Darlinghurst This two-day symposium presented new scholarly research on the material culture of Australia. It addresses the rich diversity of objects and the processes, knowledge, and meanings embedded therein. Our purpose is to revitalise the discourse on marginalised media and quotidian culture and bring sc holars, artists, curators and collectors into productive dialogue. Focusing on making meaning through materials, this symposium reinforces the National Art School’s core emphasis on object-led art practices and histories. Despite renewed interest in material culture, the conversation about objects often remains siloed […]

Online panel discussion | The Art Newspaper – The future of museums, exhibitions and the objects they display

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

“NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE an online panel organised by The Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation With Il Giornale Dell’Arte. The panels can be watched on YouTube at 17.00 BST (so not great for Aus/NZ but hopefully the recordings may be made available). Friday 1st May: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects They Display. (Chaired by Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE) Saturday 2nd May: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing. (Chaired by Simon Schaffer) Sunday 3rd May: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge. (Chaired by […]

Research Continuity Grants from the Paul Mellon Centre – Open to international applicants

May 1, 2020Funding

Editor’s note – we have checked with the Paul Mellona nd these are definitely open to Australian researchers with relevant projects. The Paul Mellon Centre has made £200,000 available in a special programme of funding designed to support the field of British art studies during the COVID-19 crisis. Website: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/announcing-a-new-programme-of-fellowships-and-grants/page/1 The programme will provide quickly released funding for both individuals and institutions, and is intended to sustain research, writing and thinking on British art and architecture during a period of unprecedented disruption for the scholarly and curatorial communities. Research Continuity Grants Research Continuity Grants are awards of £10,000 intended for institutions […]

Know My Name Edit-a-thon Sydney

March 2, 2020EventsEvents, Feminism

Learn to create new Wikipedia pages about female creators to celebrate International Women’s Day About this Event Date And Time: Sat 7 March 2020, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT Location: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower. Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name project to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women. On the weekend of International Women’s Day, join us […]