Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

Call for Papers │ Hunar Symposia: Art/Conflict │ Close 22 July

June 12, 2022Call for Papers

Art/Conflict is the inaugural three-day conference and month-long art-exhibition organised by Hunar Symposia taking place in Sydney and online in November 2022. The conference will focus on the intersections between art, war, and conflict through questions of creative resistance and sovereignty. We seek your support in promoting the symposium and more especially the current call for papers. Abstracts due 22 July Confirmed keynote speakers include: Badtjala artist, curator, writer, academic and founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative, Fiona Foley Buenos Aires-based human rights activist, photographer, and visual artist, Marcelo Brodsky Professor of Sociology, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, John Clammer […]

E.SUN Bank Calls on Global Artists to Paint Yushan Mountain for the E. Sun Awards | International Painting Competition

June 6, 2022Exhibition, Prizes

E.SUN Bank Calls on Global Artists to Paint Yushan Mountain for the E. Sun Awards | International Painting Competition Calling Landscape Painters for a unique International Painting Competition. Taiwan’s E.SUN Bank has announced an open call for submissions to the E.SUN Awards. The competition calls on artists to paint Yushan, a 3,952 metre-tall peak whose name translates to Jade Mountain. Oil, acrylic, and gouache depictions of Yushan will be accepted into this competition, submit your entry to their website until 31 August 2022. You can interpret the brief in your own artistic style and technique. E.SUN Bank, whose logo depicts […]

PRIZE IS NOW OPEN

June 6, 2022Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated PhD students to enter the AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. From 2022 the format of the annual PhD prize will change. This follows a review by the AAANZ Prize Committee that took into consideration feedback received from former and potential entrants, academics and former members of the judging panel. The AAANZ PhD Prize for 2022 (and subsequent years) will be judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation. Deadline: Friday 29 July 2022 Shortlisting The judging panel will shortlist three applicants. […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2022 CLOSE FRIDAY 24 JUNE

June 6, 2022AWAPA, Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) are now open. The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Categories for the AWAPAs include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Māori and Pasifika art writing. AWAPAs recognise: Originality and […]

AAANZ 2022 Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS | Call for Papers are open

June 6, 2022AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2022 Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2022 close Friday 24 June

May 30, 2022AWAPA, Prizes

AAANZ PhD Prize is now open

May 30, 2022Prizes

Shadow Minister for the Arts Tony Burke promises landmark cultural policy

May 18, 2022Advocacy

AAANZ welcomes news that Shadow Minister for the Arts Tony Burke will spearhead a new national cultural policy if elected to government on Saturday 21 May. Acknowledging that a new direction was needed to give the arts the support it needs, Burke stated that a Labor national cultural policy would be informed by wide consultation with the sector and local and state governments, bringing ‘new drive, direction and vision to Australia’s arts sector’ which has significantly suffered following years of cut backs under the Coalition Government. Beginning with restoring ‘arts’ as part of a named government department, Labor announced its […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2022 ARE NOW OPEN

May 16, 2022AWAPA, Prizes

Vale Mr W. Wanambi

May 9, 2022News

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand extends its thoughts to family, extended family, the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre and the wider community of North East Arnhem Land for the loss of such a significant leader, artist and advocate for culture and Country. In 2007 Mr W. Wanambi became a director of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, where he was instrumental in the facilitation of the short film collection Nhama and the mentoring of young Yolŋu in media practices. In 2014 Mr Wanambi graduated from the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts at the University of Melbourne, specialising in Indigenous Arts Management and was a […]