Category Archives: Member News

AAANZ President’s Report │December 2024

Member News

This has been a very special year for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand as we celebrate our fiftieth anniversary. This significant milestone has provided the opportunity to reflect upon our beginnings and look to future achievements. After an auspicious beginning with funding of $7,000 from the Visual Arts Board, there were several points over the years when the Association’s fortunes floundered. In the face of dire circumstances it was the resolve, determination and commitment of past presidents, executive committees, conference organising committees and journal editorial committees that ensured AAANZ came through. Their tenacity was fuelled by an […]

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AAANZ declaration of election for appointment to positions on the Executive Committee including President – Nominations close this Friday

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At the AGM in December this year a number of positions on the Executive Committee will come up for renewal. The President Wendy Garden is stepping down so the position of President will become vacant and we will need to elect a new President this year. If you are interested in nominating for any of the positions listed below please complete a Nomination form and return it to the Business Manager by Friday 15 November. President Australian Capital Territory Representative New South Wales Representative Queensland Representative South Australian Representative Tasmanian Representative Victorian Representative Western Australian Representative Indigenous Australian Representative Student Representative Advocacy Representative If you […]

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Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List │ Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson

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Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM is an internationally recognised expert on the art and culture of Renaissance and early-modern Venice, and has made fundamental and lasting contributions to the arts and to the public culture of Australia. Among her many achievements, she has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and her publications books on Italian art include Giuseppe […]

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NEWS | 2020 Australia Day Honours | Professor Harriet Edquist AM | Dr Alison Scott Inglis AM

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The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand would like to congratulate two of our members in receiving 2020 Australia Day Honours. Professor Harriet Edquist AM from Melbourne, for significant service to architectural history and design, and to higher education and Director of the RMIT  University Design Archives, since 2007. Dr Alison Scott Inglis AM from Parkville, Victoria, for significant service to education, and to the museum and galleries sector and as a Member of the Archives Advisory Board of The University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts – School of Culture and Communication Member from 2008-2013.

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Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes

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Introducing a new history of Australia art and its exhibitions.       Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes (Thames and Hudson https://www.thamesandhudsonaustralia.com/product-page/australian-art-exhibitions) Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis, and Catherine Speck combine to reveal different histories of Australian art and new visions of an Australia that have been hiding in plain sight.   It challenges previous accounts of Australian art history as it combines an analysis of art and its display in public art museums with an examination of the ways exhibitions have been funded as well as the growth of the curatorial and associated professions. The extensive text is […]

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Queen’s Birthday Honours

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The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is delighted to report that two significant members of the art and art history community were recognised on the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Both recipients have had an enormous and significant impact on their respective fields and the awards are an indication of the esteem in which members of the art-related professions are held in this country and internationally. Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate received the Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for eminent service to higher education, particularly to art history and theory and to the advanced […]

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Susan Best and Catherine Speck elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Congratulations to Susan Best and Catherine Speck on their election to the Australian Academy of the Humanities From the AAH: Leading experts in arts and culture are among 23 leading figures in the humanities to be elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities – the highest honour for achievement in the humanities in Australia. “I am delighted to welcome our new Fellows, elected in recognition of their outstanding scholarship and practice in the humanities disciplines,” said newly elected President of the Academy, Professor Joy Damousi FASSA FAHA. “Their expertise is central to our capacity to understand and engage with […]

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