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vale – dr pamela zeplin

Dr Pamela Zeplin (19 January 1949 – 9 August 2013) was a much loved and highly regarded academic at the School of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia.    After undertaking studies at Monash University Pam moved to Adelaide in 1981 to take up a position at what was then the South Australian School of Art located at Underdale. Working in the Department of Art History and Theory for thirty-two years she influenced generations of South Australian artists, writers and curators. Pam considered teaching and post-graduate supervision to be an essential part of her art practice. Pam was […]

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professor bonnie english

The AAANZ sends its respects to the family and colleagues of Associate Professor Bonnie English who passed away on 25 June 2013. Bonnie spent much of her life building up the area of fashion research, gained an international reputation in the area, and staged the first exhibition of Japanese fashion in Australia, ‘Tokyo Vogue’, in 1999, which I reviewed at the time for ‘Art Monthly’. Bonnie was a regular conference speaker at AAANZ over the years and she will be missed by her community at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University where she worked since 1975. Peter McNeil

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phd graduate prize

A new competition for recent PhD Graduates to be judged on Saturday 7 December 2013.  The outstanding presentation will receive $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis the new publisher of the AAANZ journal.  Read more…

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new directions for aaanz journal

As the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand approaches its 40th anniversary I’m delighted to announce a number of significant changes for our Journal of Art. A new publisher In 2014 we will partner the international publisher Taylor & Francis, allowing us to maintain the highest standards of scholarship into the 21st century while streamlining production. The change will give our journal online global reach while members will continue to receive a hard copy. A new editorial committee Our new editorial committee is to be hosted by Power Professor Mark Ledbury, Power Institute, The University of Sydney who will be working with Dr Keith Broadfoot, […]

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daao

Design and Art of Australia Online (www.daao.org.au) is the next generation of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, which in turn had its origins in Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists. Despite its incomplete state, the DAAO is already the most comprehensive data base on Australian visual culture, and as such is proving to be a valuable research tool. freely available to all. Its new iteration enables researchers to modify existing incomplete entries, and also to write on exhibitions and associated events, as well as writing on curators. There is however one category of entry that cannot be altered: those entries that […]

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joan kerr biography

Dr Susan Steggall’s biography of art historian Joan Kerr – ‘A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian’, has just been published by LhR Press. A MOST GENEROUS SCHOLAR: JOAN KERR, ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN is an important record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art history students but also a scholar whose work changed the way Australians view their visual cultural heritage. The book is a comprehensive record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art […]

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save art in TAFE

Address by Ann Stephen, President, AAANZ 19 November 2012 There is widespread concern at the closure of TAFE art training across all sectors of the arts. The Art Association of Australia & NZ (AAANZ) calls on the government to restore public funding for TAFE arts courses across Australia. Last weekend the Arts Section of the Australian Academy of Humanities also expressed concern at the proposed closure in the TAFE sector.  Since all education is a continuum that leads potentially into tertiary studies every sector needs to support potential. Both AAANZ and the Academy are particularly concerned at how the closure […]

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