Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

Winner of the 2022 AAANZ PhD Prize

December 19, 2022News, Prizes

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 AAANZ PhD Prize. There were four shortlisted thesis’ from twenty-three entries. Thesis titles and abstracts will be published on the website under “Awards and Funding”. 2022 AAANZ PhD PRIZE RECIPIENT $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Judges Katrina Grant, Kate Warren and Raymond Spiteri Kirsty Baker Constituting the ‘Woman Artist’: A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Art History 1928 – 1989 From the judges This thesis traces written representations of the ‘woman artist’ in published literature, constructing a genealogy to examine the ideologies both embedded in and perpetuated by them. In doing so […]

WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2022 AWAPAs

December 19, 2022AWAPA, News, Prizes

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2022. This years nominations can be viewed here BEST BOOK PRIZE $1,000 sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA Judges Emeritus Professor Tony Bennett FAHA FAcSS and Emeritus Sasha Grishin AM FAHA JOINT WINNER Susan Ballard, Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021) From the judges In proposing the perspective of ‘planetary aesthetics’ this immensely scholarly and clearly argued study proposes two major challenges for contemporary art histories. First, it establishes the case for a critical revision of the earlier traditions of art history and aesthetic theory associated […]

Event │Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès │Wheeler Centre

December 5, 2022Events

Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès Join Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès – writers at the forefront of black feminist theory and antiracist action – for a conversation about listening and translating spaces of joy, hope and connection. Convened by Wiradjuri artist Brook Andrew. Wheeler Centre Tuesday 7 December 6:30-7:30pm Register here: https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/change-and-collaboration-with-tina-campt-and-francoise-verges/ Image: Tina Campt (top) and Françoise Vergès (bottom)

Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC Project “Repatriates: Artistic Research in Museums and Communities engaged in the process of object repatriation from European collections.”

December 5, 2022Jobs, Opportunity, Research Fellowship

Position: Researcher Unit: Department of History E-mail: advert089@ceu.edu Application deadline date: January 9, 2023 Starting date: As soon as possible Full- Or Part-time: negotiable Central European University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position for the ERC Project Repatriates: Artistic Research in Museums and Communities engaged in the process of object repatriation from European collections. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator at CEU, Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, the Postdoctoral Fellow will lead a case study within the Repatriates project in Australia. This case will focuses on the repatriation of indigenous Australian material culture from European museum collections. Main tasks […]

Conference | Artists’ colonies in the world / The world in artists’ colonies | The University of Melbourne | 28-30 November

November 14, 2022News

Artists’ colonies in the world / The world in artists’ colonies A conference for imagining the artists’ colony as an alternate model for writing art history Monday, 28 November––Wednesday, 30 November 2022 This three-day conference on artists’ colonies gathers over 30 papers from academics working in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the UK and USA. Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne In-person and live-streamed online. Free to attend, registration required. The keynote lecture will be presented by Macgeorge Visiting Speaker, Dr Nina Lübbren, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Dr Lübbren’s […]

Job | Canada Research Chair (Tier II, tenure-track) | History of South Asian Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

November 14, 2022Jobs

The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, invites applications for a Canada Research Chair (CRC), Tier II specializing in the art history, architectural history, or visual culture of South Asia. This position is expected to be a full-time, tenure-track appointment made at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The anticipated start date of employment is as early as 1 July, 2023. Applicants’ research interests may include any historical period and any geographic region in South Asia. The candidate will be well versed in the most advanced theoretical and […]

ARI Remix Newsletter | Spring 2022 | Ten Year Anniversary Issue # 6 | (Re) Presenting 2020-2022 | Celebrating a Decade of Collaborative Memory Work

November 14, 2022News

This year ARI Remix are working on a new series of artist/ARI memory contributions in a digital/physical zine format. All community-based archivists including artists and artist-run communities have stories that demonstrate the importance of their work to the communities they serve. Yet these stories of impact can be difficult to systemically track and use, this is a key focus of the memory work perform at ARI Remix + EXTRA Zine. Read the newsletter here Image: Christopher Street NYC Pride ’88, AXIS Art Projects series, Paul Andrew [ Interdisciplinary Artist], 1988-2022

Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in Victorian Britain

November 7, 2022Events

The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is pleased to host this extended seminar on colour in Victorian Britain. Through presentations and discussion, colour in Victorian arts, sciences and discourse will be axamined. Join in person and online to hear papers by Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum) and Keren Hammerschlag (ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory), and presentations by early career researchers Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean) and Sarah Hodge (ANU). These will be followed by an open discussion with the presenters and audience about the multiple facets of colour in Victorian Britain. Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in […]

Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall

November 7, 2022Events

The year 2023 will mark 40 years since David R. Marshall was appointed a lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Fine Arts. His former PhD students, colleagues and friends are honouring his distinguished legacy with an on-line international symposium and publication. They invite you to join them for two days of papers on new research across the areas of landscape and gardens in Early Modern Italy, the architecture and urbanism of Rome, antiquarianism, visual culture and performance, baroque to neo-baroque, and, Italian painting. Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall Saturday […]

Celebrating Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate, 1937-2022

November 7, 2022News

Art History and the Power Institute invite you to a celebration of Virginia Spate’s significant contribution to art history at the University of Sydney and beyond. 10 NOVEMBER 2022 6:00pm – 8:00pm MacLaurin Hall, The Quadrangle University of Sydney, Camperdown Drinks and light finger food will be provided Click here to learn more from Power Institute Director, Mark Ledbury about Virginia’s importance as an art historian, educator, colleague and friend. RSVP HERE Image: Virginia Spate, Professor of Contemporary Art, Sydney University, 30 August 1988, TheSydney Morning Herald. Photographer: Paul Miller, FXB1318390.