Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 24.2: Open Issue

Sidney McMahon, Maggot, 2022. Credit: Jacquie Manning. Courtesy of the artist.

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 24.2: Open Issue

Submission of essays due: Friday 1 December, 2023

Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello

Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early

We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.


ANZJA publishes research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words (including endnotes), which will be peer-reviewed*. We encourage both traditional and experimental approaches to peer-reviewed research articles, including essays, dialogues and embodied writing. We also publish shorter texts (2000 to 3000 words long) of opinions and reflections as well as reviews of books, exhibitions, and conferences (which are not peer reviewed). We also encourage visual essays. We are keen to provide a platform for writers who have historically been excluded from scholarly publishing including those who identify as First Nations and/or early career scholars, curators, and artists. The ANZJA and guest editors will work with such contributors to offer support during the peer-review process. If you have any questions, please contact us via the email below.

*Peer-reviewed articles: ANZJA adopts the double blind peer-review method where submissions are sent without author name/s to the reviewers, who also maintain anonymity. We strive to ensure that research specialisation, knowledge sharing, collegiality and cultural safety are central to our peer-review process.


Journal Aims and Scope

Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the ScholarOne System, adhering to the Journal style guide. See the ANZJA submission guidelines for further details on style, peer-review process and so on. Submissions not conforming to the guidelines will not be considered.

ANZJA is published by Taylor & Francis and the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). The journal is housed by UNSW Art & Design under the editorship of Dr Verónica Tello with the support of Professor Edward Scheer (Head of School) and an editorial committee comprising Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Diana Baker Smith, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange and José Da Silva. AAANZ is Australia and New Zealand’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. ANZJA is Australasia and Pacifica’s principal refereed art-history journal. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history, art practice, theory and exhibitions.

For all queries regarding the submission process please contact ANZJA’s Managing Editor, Anastasia Murney, a.murney@unsw.edu.au

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