Category Archives: News

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

Events, 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 […]

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Event | 2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History | Thursday 30 April

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2026 Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History Medieval Art of the Eastern Mediterranean: Global Networks in a Pre-Global World?   Trinity College, University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Art History, invites you to the Joseph Burke Lecture in Art History.  Returning in the anniversary year of the founding of the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and the beginning of university teaching in art history at the University of Melbourne, the 2026 Joseph Burke Lecture will be delivered by Alicia Walker, Professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Date: Thursday 30 April 2026 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Craig Auditorium, […]

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Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind | DEADLINE EXTENDED 15 April

Call for Papers, News

*EXTENDED DEADLINE: Wednesday 15 April 2026*   Call for Papers Abstracts due by Wednesday, 15 April 2026 The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday, 1 October 2026 This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds 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. We […]

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Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2025

AWAPA, News

The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2025. BEST BOOK Sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA Judges Emeritus Sasha Grishin AM FAHA and Dr Nicholas Croggon […]

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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 AIAH Early Career Research Awards

Grants, News

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne collaborated with AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. Two grants were awarded to the value of $10,000. GRANT RECIPIENT  $10,000 funded by the Australian Institute of Art History Louise Rollman and Isabel Rousset,  ‘Translating the Vienna School: Dr Gertrude Langer in Australia’s Asia-Pacific context’ Project Summary This research examines how Western models of global art history proposed by the Vienna School were applied by Viennese-born Australian art historian […]

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Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize: Research-based

News, Prizes

The AAANZ PhD prize is judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation of a recently graduated PhD student The prize alternates yearly between research-based and practice-led. In 2025 the PhD Prize was open to research-based PhD entries, there were 26 entries of which, four were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Amelia Birch,  ‘In a Paris studio: the transformative partnership of Agnes Goodsir and Rachel Dunn’, (University of Western Australia) Abstract At the start of the twentieth century there was a mass exodus of Australian female artists travelling abroad to further theirartistic […]

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AAANZ President’s Report │December 2025

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2025 was my first year taking on the role as President for AAANZ, although I have been on the executive for many years there was still a lot to learn! My thanks to outgoing president Wendy Garden, and our ongoing Business Manager Rebecca Renshaw who both helped enormously with the transition. Our major project for 2025 was working through our registration as a charitable organisation so we could have Deductible Gift Recipient status. Wendy Garden had formally started this process in 2024, and there was a lot of work happening behind the scenes during 2025. Thanks to all members who […]

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Photo of Dr Maude Palmer

Vale | Dr Maudie Palmer AO

News, Obituary

AAANZ was saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Maudie Palmer AO, a significant figure in the Australian art world. She was a founding director of both Heide Museum of Modern Art and the TarraWarra Museum of Art, and leaves an important legacy. You can read more about her contributions in tributes posted by Monash University and the TarraWarra Museum of Art.  

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Congratulations to new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Congratulations to AAANZ members and colleagues in art history and art who have recently been appointed as new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. You can see the full list here: https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/30-new-fellows-elected-to-humanities-academy/ Professor Jennifer Biddle FAHA, UNSW A visual anthropologist of Aboriginal art, language, emotion and culture. Professor Mark Ledbury FAHA, the University of Sydney, A distinguished scholars of art and theatre studies who has deepened our understanding of 18th and 19th-century European painting and theatre.  Associate Professor Christopher Roy Marshall FAHA, the University of Melbourne, A prolific researcher of Italian Baroque Art and contemporary museology who specialises in socio-economic questions of […]

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