Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

Books | Top 20 Book Facts | Publishing Industry Trends | Friends of the South Australia State Library

June 5, 2020Book

Top 20 Book Facts 1. Did you know, the fear of running out of something to read is called Abibliophobia 2. The world’s smallest book is Teeny Ted from Turnip Town 3. There are four law books bound in human skin at the Harvard University Library 4. Fact has it that former American President Theodore Roosevelt read one book a day 5. People say the longest sentence to ever be printed in literature belongs to Victor Hugo. The claim is that in Les Misérables there is a sentence which is 823 words long 6. 1 in 5 adults around the world cannot read […]

News | Prime Minister, this is your moment to create Australia’s future | NAVA

June 5, 2020News

The National Association for the Visual Arts highlights what’s needed and what’s at stake with the Arts and cultural investment statement. Priorities for immediate investment: Introduce a substantial $500m recovery fund accessible to all arts and cultural organisations across all artforms and at all scales Establish an arts and culture working group to advise the National COVID19 Coordination Commission Harmonise income averaging arrangements between the ATO and Centrelink, so that artists can claim JobSeeker; extend JobKeeper for casuals who have been employed at least 3mo; extend JobKeeper to the end of January 2021 Expand income support eligibility to local government […]

Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

May 29, 2020Prizes

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. Following a review of the Awards earlier this year, AAANZ is pleased to announce a new category, Best Medium Exhibition Catalogue. This […]

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | THE GARAGE JOURNAL: STUDIES IN ART, MUSEUMS & CULTURE

May 29, 2020Call for Papers

To coincide with the International Museum Day, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art launched a research platform called The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture. An independent interdisciplinary academic journal that publishes original empirical, theoretical, and speculative research in a variety of genres, celebrating innovative ways of presentation. Fully peer reviewed, The Garage Journal conforms to international standards of ethical research. The journal’s editor-in-chief is Vlad Strukov, an associate professor at the University of Leeds (UK). The editorial board comprises world-leading researchers, curators and authors. On the site of the journal call for submissions for four planned issues is available. Issue […]

Awards | First Nations Arts Awards

May 22, 2020Prizes

First Nations Arts Awards 2020 Wednesday 27 May 2020, 6.00pm AEST – LIVE online Formerly the National Indigenous Arts Awards, the First Nations Arts Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding creativity and lifetime achievements of First Nations artists. The awards are held annually on 27 May marking the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum. Due to the impact of COVID-19, the recipients of this year’s awards will be revealed during a live streamed event, hosted by Deputy Chair Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Chair of the First Nations Arts Strategy Panel and Sydney Festival Artistic Director Wesley Enoch, with a guest performance from the Stiff Gins. On […]

News | NCCA first public gallery to reopen its doors

May 15, 2020News

The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin was the first public gallery to reopen its doors following the start of Covid-19 restrictions being lifted in the Northern Territory. Audiences could see the exhibition priNT 2020 from 12pm, Friday 15 May. Curated by Mats Unden, the exhibition showcases local and national printmakers Winsome Jobling, Anna Russell, Anne McMaster and Namminnapu Mayuru-White. Image: Winsome Jobling, ‘Look #1’, 2019, handmade paper, abaca and cotton with pigmented cotton

Awards | Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

May 15, 2020Book, Prizes

Residency | TOP 5 Arts | with the ABC and University of Melbourne

May 15, 2020News

ABC is partnering with the University of Melbourne to present TOP 5 Arts, giving a voice to Australia’s next generation of Arts practitioners and researchers. TOP 5 Arts is media residency for graduate early-career practitioners and PhD researchers working in visual arts, performance, design, architecture and screen. The scheme seeks to equip early-career graduate Arts practitioners and PhD Arts scholars with media and communication skills to share their ideas and specialist knowledge widely through expert commentary and analysis. Winners will work alongside some of Australia’s best journalists and broadcasters to train in the craft of radio and TV interviews and […]

ANJZA Throwback | John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece

May 1, 2020ANZJA

John Baldessari’s Punishment Piece Tara McDowell Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2019, Open Issue, vol.19, no.1, 53-69 Despite being one of the most canonical artworks of this period, Baldessari’s I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art has never received any extensive art historical attention, let alone any good old-fashioned formal analysis.iv In what follows, I aim to do just that, restoring the context and material processes of this work and looking closely at its afterlives in order to make it vivid, but also to allow its many permutations and reversals to emerge as attributes of an artwork that is deeply dialectical in […]

ADVOCACY | ARTS DAY ON THE HILL | NAVA

April 17, 2020Advocacy

Every Wednesday evening from 22 April, NAVA will join Australia’s leading advocacy thinkers and practitioners online at 4pm (AEST). Let’s talk arts, policy, media, political and public engagement. What works? What doesn’t? What can we achieve together? Results from the online workshops will culminate in Arts Day on the Hill – Australia’s national day of advocacy for the arts. This year’s Arts Day on the Hill is Wednesday, 12 August, during the first Parliamentary sitting week after the winter break. Last year’s Arts Day on the Hill training was an intensive two-day set of workshops presented at the National Gallery of […]