Category Archives: News

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

December 24, 2025News, 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 […]

AAANZ President’s Report │December 2025

December 22, 2025News

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 […]

Vale | Dr Maudie Palmer AO

December 15, 2025News, 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.

ARI REMIX NEWS ~ Summer Joy ~ ISSUE 1

December 8, 2025News

ARI REMIX NEWS OUT NOW Enjoy SUMMER JOY ISSUE 13 access here

Congratulations to new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

November 20, 2025News

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 […]

ARC Grant success for Art History, Curatorial and Practice-led research

October 29, 2025NewsARC

Congratulations to a range of AAANZ members and colleagues in art history, curatorial, conservation studies and practice-led research who had success in the recent ARC grants program (and commisserations to all who missed out). Please let us know if we missed anyone: Dr David Rousell; Dr Eve Mayes; Dr Kelly Hussey-Smith; Professor Julianne Moss; Dr Gideon Boadu; Dr Merinda Kelly; Dr Simon Soon from the Art History program – University of Melbourne: Making histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities . This project aims to address the growing gap between young people’s experiences of urban change and authorised […]

Notice of General Meeting Monday 13 October 2025

September 29, 2025Membership, News

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will hold a General Meeting as follows: Date: Monday 13 October 2025 Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (NZST), 1.00 – 2.00 pm (AEST), 11.30 am – 12.30 pm (ACST), 10.00 – 11.00 am (AWST) Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89956811210?from=addon AAANZ requires a quorum for this meeting please register if you are attending here Documents: Agenda Proxy Form Notification of agenda items for actioning: Item: 5 In accordance with Section 24 of the Associations Incorporation Act 1985 (SA) the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand alters its rules to add two additional clauses, 21.6 to section […]

RESEARCH SURVEY | Public Art and its Role in Connecting People and Place

September 29, 2025News

RESEARCH SURVEY | Public Art and its Role in Connecting People and Place: the social benefits provided by public art at Sydney Metro stations This research on everyday experiences of public art at Sydney Metro and Train Stations in Sydney, Australia. Please take the survey and to circulate with your networks! The study examines metro user experience and local opinions to inform best practice for future public art investment. The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete, and you can enter to win one of ten $100 Coles gift vouchers in the prize draw at the end of the survey. […]

Symposium | Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts: Ocean and River Currents of Relational Wellness

September 22, 2025News

Symposium | Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts: Ocean and River Currents of Relational Wellness When: Thu, 23 Oct, 10am – 7pm AEDT Where: Lotus Hall (Auditorium), Australian Centre on China in the World Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/reimagining-the-humanities-through-indigenous-creative-arts-ocean-and-river-currents-of-relational-wellness Event description: How do we maintain ethical relations in the face of a huge range of local, national, regional and global challenges? What do our communities, ancestors and the earth teach us in the present? How do Indigenous peoples maintain networks of knowledge sharing for individual and collective wellbeing? We live in times of national and global attacks on the humanities and higher […]

YIRRAMBOI / THE MOB JOURNAL // E03

September 8, 2025Events, Grants, News

As the days get a little longer we’re finding ourselves in that buzzy moment of stirring awake from the cold at the tail end of Guling (Orchid) Season. The wattles are bursting yellow, caterpillars are marching and the frosty mornings are (hopefully) behind us. In team news, fresh from YIRRAMBOI 2025’s spotlight on Northern Turtle Island, two of our deadly team members have just returned from Toronto, where they honoured reciprocal relations with Joelle Peters, Artistic Director at Native Earth Performing Arts—the oldest First Nations performing arts company in Canada. Together, they reflected on the importance of the next generation […]