Category Archives: Events

Know My Name Edit-a-thon Sydney

March 2, 2020EventsEvents, Feminism

Learn to create new Wikipedia pages about female creators to celebrate International Women’s Day About this Event Date And Time: Sat 7 March 2020, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT Location: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower. Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name project to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women. On the weekend of International Women’s Day, join us […]

SYMPOSIUM | COLIN MCCAHON CENTENARY | MONASH ART DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE | MELBOURNE

January 31, 2020Events

A half-day symposium celebrating the life and legacy of New Zealand’s most significant painter, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon Centenary Symposium Saturday 15 February, 12.30 – 5.30pm Monash Art Design & Architecture Building G, Lecture Theatre G1.04, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East Tickets Join Monash Art Design & Architecture for a half-day symposium to celebrate the life and legacy of New Zealand’s most significant painter. By the time of his death in 1987, Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was hailed as a leading Antipodean modernist. After failing to find an audience for much of his career, his numerical and text-based compositions, and his […]

Symposium | Unlocking Creativity: Artists’ and Architects’ Estates | 19-20 November | University of Melbourne

November 8, 2019Events

Symposium | Unlocking Creativity: Artists’ and Architects’ Estates exploring the enduring cultural significance of artists’ and architects’ estates in Australia Dates: Tuesday 19 – Wednesday 20 November 2019 Venue: William Macmahon Ball Theatre (Rm 107), Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne Cost: FREE The symposium will present recent research on creative estates and expand on current studies of the careers of creative individuals and their societal impact. The symposium will address four broad themes: (1) Heritage spaces: artists’ and architects’ houses and studio (2) Archives, endowments and other legacies (3) Securing the future: women and creative estates (4) Estate planning for […]

Symposium | Art, Digitality and Canon-making? | University of Sydney

October 11, 2019Events, Exhibition

This is the second iteration of Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories at the University of Sydney. Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019: Art, Digitality and Canon-making? Friday 18 – Saturday 19 October Symposium will be held at the University of Sydney Exhibition opening at the Cross Art Projects For further information click here To register click here The Wind in the Trees: From Tradisexion to Womanifes Friday 18 October ‘Art, Digitality and Canon-making?’ keynote lecture with Flaudette May Datuin For further information click here To register click here

Public Lecture | A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art | Thursday, 3 October, 4pm | Buxton Contemporary

September 27, 2019Events

Join Dr Amy Tobin, Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle’s Yard; Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK for a public lecture A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art at Buxton Contemporary, Thursday, 3 October, 4pm. This talk is an introduction to Kettle’s Yard and its curator H.S. Jim Ede (1896-1990). It considers Ede’s life and his relationship to Modern Art, particularly his unique understanding of the imbrication of art and life. Ede described himself as a ‘friend to artists’. Dr Tobin will discuss Ede in relation to the world he created for […]

Symposium | Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy | University of Melbourne

September 23, 2019EventsPrints, Symposium, University of Melbourne

A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships 30 September – 2 October 2019 This symposium, Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy, celebrates 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships by focussing on three broad themes – print exhibitions, print collections and print presses – and seeks to trace the influence of philanthropy in shaping Australasian print culture. In one of the largest gatherings of print scholars, curators, artists and printmakers ever seen in Australia, a range of topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives. These include: […]

Event | Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities | 12 September, 1pm | Black Box | UNSW Art & Design Box

September 6, 2019Events

Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities 12 September, 1 – 7.30pm Black Box, UNSW Art & Design Box D106, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington NSW Harnessing Energies symposium, 1-5pm Energies in the Arts book launch and performance, 6 – 7.30pm Energies in the Arts, the new collection edited by Professor Douglas Kahn (UNSW Art & Design) and published by MIT Press, explores the pluralistic concepts of energies—scientific, cultural, spiritual, ecological – as they occur in the arts, history and theory. The book will be launched by Joyce Hinterding (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney), and […]

Event | … in Trouble opens Tuesday 8 October, 5pm, The Boom Gate Gallery

September 6, 2019Events, Exhibition

… in Trouble, an exhibition in partnership with the University of New South Wales, The Big Anxiety Festival opens Tuesday 8th October, 5pm. The exhibition will run until 20 October at The Boom Gate Gallery. For more information click here

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Brisbane Launch Events

August 23, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Brisbane on Saturday 24 and Saturday 31 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue—Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’)—represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance itself, whereas the editors of Más allá del fin refer […]

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Melbourne Launch Events

August 16, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Melbourne from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue — Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’) — represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance […]