Category Archives: Events

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

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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 […]

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Event | Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Australia

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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 […]

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

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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, […]

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Launch | Blue Art Journal | Chau Chak Wing Museum

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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 […]

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EVENTS | AIAH upcoming events

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2026-2027 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and the beginning of art history university teaching in Australia. AIAH is planning a major conference in 2027 to celebrate; in 2026, as AIAH builds toward the conference, there will be a whole series of international and national speakers to give lectures and talks. To begin with, on 18 March a lecture on the Spanish baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), given by Dr Holly Trusted, Curator of Sculpture (emeritus) from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dr Trusted’s lecture, ‘Who was Luisa Roldán?’ will discuss Roldán’s work as […]

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Event | She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History | 25 March

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She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History brings together Dr Scarlette Nhi Do, Professor Zoë Laidlaw and PhD candidate Kacey Sinclair for a timely conversation about women’s influence in shaping Victoria’s past. From Lady Gladys Nicholls’ overlooked Indian-Australian heritage and activism, to Janet Biddlecombe’s pastoral wealth and philanthropic power rooted in colonial dispossession, to Fanny Finch’s resistance as a woman of colour in gold-rush Victoria, this event interrogates how women’s labour, leadership and legacies are remembered. Together, these historians ask: whose histories endure, whose are erased and how should we reckon with them today? When: 6:00pm -7:15pm Wednesday […]

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EVENT | ILLUMINATING MINDS SYMPOSIUM AND CONCERT | 14 FEBRUARY

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ILLUMINATING MINDS: A Symposium Celebrating the legacy of Professor Margaret Manion IBVM AO FAHA (1935-2024) Invitation to attend the forthcoming symposium and concert celebrating the legacy of Professor Margaret Manion IBVM AO (1935-2024), who pioneered the study of Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in Australia. The symposium brings together many of Professor Manion’s former students and colleagues, who will be presenting papers on aspects of their research and reflecting on her influence.  The symposium will be followed by a concert at Newman College’s Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Date: Saturday 14th February 2026 Symposium venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, The […]

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EVENT | Women’s Art Register Roundtable: Things That Keep Us Together | 21 February

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Event: Women’s Art Register Roundtable: Things That Keep Us Together When: 21 February, 2.30pm–3.15pm Where: The Bubble, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre More info: https://melbourneartfair.com.au/events/womens-art-register-things-that-keep-us-together/ The Women’s Art Register recently turned 50 — a major milestone for an archive shaped by a collective vision and sustained by volunteers. The new book, Keeping things together: 50 years of the Women’s Art Register, brings the Register’s history and ongoing impact on Australian culture to life. Join panellists Meredith Rogers, Lesley Dumbrell, Maya Hodge and Azza Zein, with moderator Anna Daly, for a lively discussion on art, archives and feminism, and to celebrate the things that […]

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Exhibitions | Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove and Bridget Baskerville | Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

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Join Goulburn Regional Art Gallery on Friday 13 February with an artist tour with Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove commencing at 5:30pm, and the opening event commencing at 6pm to celebrate the launch of the Gallery’s brand new exhibitions! 5:30pm Exclusive exhibition tour with exhibiting artists Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove as they walk audiences through their brand new bodies of work on display which, in distinct ways, explore family, memory and place. 6-8pm Celebrate the opening of all of our new exhibitions including Brenda L Croft’s after/image,  Prue Hazelgrove’s Re:Generation & Bridget Baskerville’s Conduit. The exhibition will be […]

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Event | Perth Festival exhibitions for 2026 | Birrundudu Drawings and Gracie Greene – It’s Time

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Invitation for major Perth Festival exhibitions for 2026, the monumental Birrundudu Drawings of rarely seen works from 1945 created at a remote cattle station by sixteen men, and a long overdue and first solo retrospective of paintings by Gracie Greene – It’s Time (curated by Lynley Nargoordah and Lee Kinsella ), both at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.   Please feel free to share far and wide and particularly with mob! These exhibitions have both been many years in the works, and the Berndt Museum is thrilled that many descendants, artists, and those with cultural ties to the works, will be travelling down to join what […]

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