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.
Dr. Richard Haese (1944-2025) – an Appreciation People of note have always recognized Dr. Richard Haese’s talents. The late art historian Professor Virginia Spate of Sydney University and the late historian Professor James A. Main of Flinders University examined his PhD thesis ‘Cultural Radicals in Australian Society 1937-47’. Both scholars made percipient observations. In the first paragraph of her examiner’s report (16 August 1979) Spate noted the extent to which ‘this thesis fills an important gap in the history of Australian art “politics”, which has previously been seriously treated only by Bernard Smith in his Australian Painting 1788-1960 – and […]
Leon Paroissien, 5 March 1937- 5 November 2024 Leon Paroissien was the first Director of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, the founding Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, a former editor of Art and Australia, and the Director of the 1984 Biennale of Sydney. With his partner, Bernice Murphy, he was an active enabler of the establishment of what is now the AAANZ. It is fair to say that any examination of Australian visual culture will find evidence of Leon Paroissien’s benign intervention. We now take it for granted that when priceless works of art travel […]
Ian North AM, a widely esteemed artist, curator, academic and writer, sadly passed away on 14 May 2024 after a long illness. Ian had a special relationship with AAANZ. He was an inaugural member of the Art Association of Australia (1974) and as President (1997-99) and New Zealander, he reached across the ditch to bring his fellow New Zealanders into the fold. He rewrote the constitution and thus a rebranded Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) was born in 2000. Ian North touched many as Curator of Paintings at the Art Gallery of South Australia (1971-1980) and Founding […]
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