Category Archives: Events

Publication Launch | Follow the Plants

August 10, 2026Book, Events, Publication

Food Art Research Network and Bioart Society invite you to join us for a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, and published by Discipline and Onomatopee. Discipline discipline.net.au Follow the Plants onomatopee.net Follow the Plants is an expanded invitation to follow plants through histories, growing seasons, metabolic cycles, literature, art, bodies, archives, and collective ritual. Bringing together artworks, dialogues, roundtables, essays, and scores, the publication offers both examples of and prompts for collective research, tracing the multiple worlds through which plants circulate and generate meaning. The book’s contributions invite us into […]

Symposium | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind

August 3, 2026Events

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture Wednesday 30 September & Thursday 1 October 2026 Registration now open This free two-day online symposium features research and reflections by Australian and international art historians, curators and artists on the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. Speakers particularly foreground how women creatives, working across image-based practices, mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. More information, full programme and registration available here: https://www.thesurrealbodysymposium.com/

Exhibition | Graphic Days in Turin_15–25 October

August 3, 2026Events, Exhibition, News

The eleventh edition of Graphic Days, the first festival dedicated to Italian and international visual and social design, is coming to Turin from 15 to 25 October and will be held for the first time it the Gruppo Building Construction Site An annual event that highlights visual communication, highlighting the latest trends in international visual and social design and showcasing the most cutting-edge creative practices. Over 60 international guests, 12 exhibitions, 7 talks, 6 workshops for adults, 3 tips & tricks, 8 workshops for children, performances, DJ sets, a market show, live printing, portfolio reviews, and activities for schools and families aim to disseminate the value of […]

Symposium | The Cost of Crime

July 20, 2026Events

The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust presents a one day symposium ‘The Cost of Art Crime’ Date: Sat 19 September 2026 Time: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm Venue: Auditorium, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Cost: Student $70. Early bird (until 31 July) $120 Full price (from 1 August) $135. For more information and first speakers announcements and to register: https://artcrime.nz/

Event | Blue Art Journal Volume Two Launch

July 20, 2026Events, Journal

Time feels slippery and beyond our control. But through this issue an array of incredible artists, writers and thinkers are offering ways to rethink its framing and stretch its limitations, a pivotal act for those of us who work in the arts. Announcing Volume Two Guest Editors Blue Art Journal is pleased to welcome Timmah Ball and Zali Morgan as guest editors of the next Volume. Two Noongar women whose practices cross curatorial, visual art and text-based practices, their Volume features writers, artists and perspectives that span between coasts of so-called Australia. Meet them below. Selected contributors include: Dominic Guerrera with James Tylor, […]

Event | Looking both ways: Art exchanges between Australia and Indonesia | John Curtin Gallery

July 13, 2026Events

Prompted by the exhibition Pasar Malam | Night Market, and staged in association with Curtin University’s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Enquiry, this half-day seminar explores the relationships between Australia and Indonesia around contemporary art. Starting with a focus on the Artists’ Regional Exchange (ARX) series of events in Perth from 1987 to 1999, it will go on to explore current engagements between the two countries and opportunities to develop the relationship in the future. Featuring speakers from Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the […]

New Deputy Director of AIAH and a conversation with curator Carolyn Christov Bakargiev

June 1, 2026Events, News

Anthony White has been appointed to the position of Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Art History. Anthony is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Melbourne, and he’s an internationally recognized specialist of modern and contemporary art, especially Italian modernism. But he’s also worked on art and disability and outsider art, and his most recent books are Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism (2020) and Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art, co-authored with Tristen Harwood and Grace McQuilten (2023). Anthony has a very distinguished cv, including previous appointments as Curator of International Painting and Sculpture […]

Event | Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Australia

April 27, 2026Events

The Australian Institute of Art History and Newman College invite you to a presentation by Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Australia: From Sir George Grey to the Kerry Stokes Collection 5.00 – 6.30pm, Tuesday 12 May 2026 Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre Newman Academic Centre via Newman College, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville Christopher de Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was responsible for all sales of illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby’s for 25 years and was later librarian of the Parker Library in Cambridge. His first of very many books on manuscripts […]

Event | Rehearsing the City’ at the Victorian Archives Centre Gallery Click to teach Gmail that this conversation is important

April 20, 2026Events

Rehearsing the City opens Thursday 21 May 2026, 5-7pm. Victorian Archives Centre Gallery, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne Through archival and contemporary photography we examine how public space is not just shaped by architects and urban planners, but also by protest, improvisation, and even neglect. Communities and individuals constantly use the built environment in creative or unexpected ways, reinterpreting or subverting its intended design. These acts of resistance show that urban environments are not static, they grow and adapt with their inhabitants. Featuring: Chris Bekos, Melanie Cobham, Michael Currie, Mark Forbes, Sande Harsa, Adrian Leung, Hashem McAdam, Suzanne Phoenix, Ted Richards, […]

Launch | Blue Art Journal | Chau Chak Wing Museum

April 16, 2026Events

Blue Art Journal is holding a free event in Sydney on Thursay 23 April to launch Volume One. The Indigenous Turn we are living through is not a temporary wave: it is a deep tide, carried by the waters and skies that have always connected our nations. The work ahead is to ensure that these connections are not merely symbolic, but sustained. – Gerald McMaster To celebrate the launch of Blue Art Journal Volume 01: Rise of the Global Indigenous there will be a free panel discussion in Sydney. Speakers include Jocelyn Flynn (Volume One Contributor), Warraba Weatherall (Blue Art Journal Board member […]