Category Archives: News

Ali Tahayori awarded the 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)

August 25, 2025News

Artspace and Create NSW would like to congratulate Ali Tahayori the recipient of the 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at the official exhibition launch at Artspace. Selected from six shortlisted finalists also including Ellen Ferrier, Ellie Hannon, Ali Noble, Vedika Rampal and Joel Sherwood Spring, Ali Tahayori will use the prestigious $30,000 Fellowship to undertake a self-directed program to develop his professional practice at this pivotal stage in his career. This edition of the 2025 Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) exhibition is curated by Sarah Rose, Associate Curator and Executive Assistant, Artspace, Sydney, and showcases works by all six shortlisted […]

Unruly Art in the Colony – Sovereign Art Histories: First Nations Open Panel

August 25, 2025News

Dear First Nations Friends, This is Jess, I’m one of the conference organizers for this years conference, themed Unruly Objects, at the University of Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. As a Palyku woman and Indigenous Studies academic, I would love for this edition to create a real space for First Nations art histories and stories. I’d welcome feedback and ideas from First Nations friends anytime. Reach me on jessyca.hutchens@uwa.edu.au and 0476 591 495. Some of the things we’re doing for this edition include curating more sections of the conference to include First Nations voices that might not usually engage with AAANZ; as well as […]

ARI REMIX | WINTER JOY ISSUE 12

July 14, 2025News

Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Queensland, this year Ari Remix draws attention to and present untold stories, hidden histories and marginalised narratives about Queer Trans and multiperspectival LGBTQIA+ communities of practice. Access Winter Joy Issue 12 here

Announcing Artspace’s 2025 Studio Program artists

June 2, 2025News

Artspace is delighted to announce the 2025 Studio Program artists are: Maissa Alameddine, EO Gill, Jumaadi, Yona Lee, Jahnne Pasco–White, Paula do Prado, Joan Ross, Kien Situ, Tina Havelock Stevens and Shevaun Wright. The Studio Program continues to offer artists the space to research and produce new works without constraint in an open and critically-engaged environment. Selected from 178 applications, these 10 artists represent the breadth of artistic practice across generations, career stages and art forms. This next cohort of artists, which gathers a diverse array of emerging, mid-career and established practitioners, will move into Artspace’s dedicated, rent-free studio spaces […]

Special General Meeting 28 May 2025

May 26, 2025News

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will hold a Special General Meeting as follows: Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025 Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (NZST), 1.00 – 2.00 pm (AEST), 12.30 – 1.30 pm (ACST), 11.00 am – 12.00 pm (AWST) Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88966509028 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 include changes to section 23, Winding Up, to include a […]

Call for Sessions | AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Deadline 28 April

April 14, 2025News

The call for sessions for the 2025 AAANZ Conference ‘Unruly Objects’ is now open. Proposal due date: Monday 28 April Enquiries and questions to the conference committee conf@aaanz.info Submit a Proposal Conference Theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or brimming with vitality, power or ancestral subjectivity. Panel convenors and formats […]

Cultural conservation centre to become part of world-leading research institute

April 14, 2025Funding, News

Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. The establishment of the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation, which will expand upon the pioneering work of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, was announced today by the University of Melbourne. Minsmere Pty Ltd, as a subsidiary of the Cripps Foundation, has donated $15 million to establish the Institute, building upon a $6.9 million donation from the Foundation in 2013. The […]

Applications open | Australia-Korea Foundation Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies | Seoul National University

March 24, 2025News

Applications for the 2026 Visiting Professor of Australian Studies position at Seoul National University (SNU) are now open. See here for the position description and further details. Supported by Woodside Energy and developed in partnership with SNU and the Australia-Korea Foundation, the Visiting Professor position is a funded 11-month visiting academic position commencing in early 2026 at SNU which aims to support innovative research collaborations and promote mutual understanding of Australia and Korea’s history, cultural heritage, and modern outlook. Please subscribe for email updates on the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) website or email Anna.Johnston@uq.edu.au for more information. Please share this with senior Humanities and Social […]

Applications Open │ Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professor of Australian Studies 2025-26 and 2026-27

February 10, 2025News

Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professorship opportunity for senior HASS academics The AJF Visiting Professor of Australian Studies is intended to enhance Australia-Japan relationships via a funded, 10-month visiting position at the University of Tokyo. Applications are now open for two terms: 2025-26 and 2026-27. The International Australian Studies Association will be facilitating the Australian side of the application and interview process. More information can be found here Full Position Description is available here Please direct any enquiries to Professor Kate Darian-Smith (k.darian-smith@unimelb.edu.au), Chair of the Selection Committee on behalf of InASA, copying in InASA admin (a.szymanski@uq.edu.au). The closing date for applications (for both […]

Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize: Practice-Led

December 16, 2024News, 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 2024 the PhD Prize was open to practice-led PhD entries, of which, three were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Yvette Hamilton, ‘Photography at the Event Horizon: The Appearance and Disappearance of a Medium’, (University of Sydney) Abstract On April 10th, 2019, scientists unveiled the world’s first ever photograph of a black hole, declaring, “we have seen what we thought was unseeable.”* The photograph of […]