Category Archives: News

Vale Professor Emerita Margaret Mary Manion IBVM, AO, FAHA | 7 March 1935 – 3 September 2024

September 16, 2024News

Margaret Manion was one of Australia’s pre-eminent art historians, and an internationally acclaimed scholar of Medieval and Renaissance art, in particular of illuminated manuscripts. Margaret Manion was a student of the Loreto Convent at Normanhurst, New South Wales, and subsequently became a member of the Loreto Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious congregation dedicated to education, community development and social justice. Following her completion of a BA in Education, her teaching career began at Loreto Abbey Mary’s Mount, a secondary school in Ballarat (now Loreto College, Victoria). There, and when still a young woman, she was appointed School Principal, the first […]

Survey | Visual Arts Work: national survey of visual artists, craft artists, and arts workers

September 16, 2024News

Are you a visual artist, craft artist, or arts worker in Australia – or an Australian citizen working in the sector overseas? Please fill in our 15-minute survey to give us a clearer understanding of the diversity of arts work and career lifecycles. The survey is open until Friday 27 September 2024 at visualartswork.net.au/survey. Image: Eugenia Lim, ‘The People’s Currency’ (2017), Federation Square, Naarm/Melbourne, commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art for AsiaTOPA, photo by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of the artist and STATION. — Visual Arts Work: sustainable strategies for the Australian visual arts and craft sector visualartswork.net.au

We need your help to celebrate 50 Years of AAANZ!

September 9, 2024News

AAANZ is proudly celebrating 50 years as the leading organisation that represents, art historians, practice-led researchers, arts writers and curators. Since 1974 it has fostered the dissemination of knowledge and debate about art, curatorship, and artistic practice throughout the region. As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations – to be marked at the annual conference in December – we are calling on our community to contribute to a digital publication. This 50th anniversary digital edition will: showcase the breadth of arts-focused research and writing across the region it will reflect on how our disciplines have changed since the 1970s invite people to […]

FILM │ RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT

August 26, 2024News

NEW: RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT (2024) is a comprehensive film based on rigorous research providing a detailed, unprecedented look into the extraordinary life, achievements and legacy of Raphael, one of the most prolific and influential artists of the Renaissance. The film received an excellent review by The Guardian and by several celebrated historians and art experts, including Paul Joannides, Kim Butler Wingfield, Quentin Skinner and Jane Stevenson. In Australia and New Zealand the film can be viewed on the Ideas Roadshow app or Vimeo and Demand. The film is also available for educational licensing through Docuseek or directly through Ideas Roadshow. […]

We need your help to celebrate 50 Years of AAANZ!

August 19, 2024News

CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | DEADLINE 31 JULY

July 8, 2024News

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 December 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN The 2024 AAANZ Conference coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. This year the conference encourages participants to explore the past, present, possible futures of art history, curating, and creative practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We now have 35 panels seeking paper proposals, and a further 15 panels being specially curated with speakers from across the region. If you would like to deliver a paper at the conference, […]

Expression of Interest: SHAPE Futures EMCR Network Executive Committee Positions

June 17, 2024News

The SHAPE Futures EMCR Network aims to support, connect and advocate for early and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) working in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts for People and Environment (SHAPE) disciplines across Australia. The SHAPE Futures Executive Committee is recruiting EMCRs interested in these objectives to take on a role within the Network Executive. All members of the executive are expected to attend the monthly meetings (held via Zoom), with other tasks allocated that are aligned to the position description. The time commitment will vary each month and depending on the role held by an individual. On average, it is […]

Obituary | David Hansen

March 4, 2024News

David Hansen (12.05.1958—13.01.2024), one of the most gifted and accomplished art historians in Australia, has died unexpectedly in Hobart, Tasmania. An alumnus of the University of Melbourne, his commitment to historical enquiry underlay much of his astonishing range of contributions to art history, curatorship, and the artistic community. In recognition of the quality and extent of his scholarly publications, the University of Melbourne awarded him a Doctor of Letters (PhD by publication) in 2004. In 1980, at the age of 21, David was appointed Director of the Warrnambool Art Gallery where he oversaw the building of a new gallery, wrote […]

Call for Papers | see/saw | Deadline 29 February

February 12, 2024News

see/saw is an undergraduate print journal devoted to publishing original research in art history and art criticism. Founded at the University of California, Berkeley, our publication shares innovative critical work biannually to foster intellectual discussion among an international network of students. As art historians, we are committed to diversifying the field and developing intersectional critical analyses of the artistic canon. see/saw is especially open to considerations of art and artists that have been historically erased and underemphasized. see/saw welcomes English-language submissions pertaining to all art historical genres and time periods from undergraduate students studying at any institution. To submit, please […]

AAANZ END OF YEAR 2023 NEWSLETTER

January 8, 2024News

Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2023 Advocacy This year was dominated by debate in the lead up to the October referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. AAANZ issued a statement in support of the Voice acknowledging it as an important step towards Treaty. Following the referendum we released a follow-up statement recognising the deep pain many people were experiencing and reaffirming our commitment to Treaty, truth-telling and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Thank you to the Indigenous Advocacy Working Group: Dr Ali Gumillya Baker, Dr Fiona Foley, Rebecca Holborn and Dr Jessyca Hutchens for crafting these statements. Consultation for the […]