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Awards | Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

May 15, 2020Book, Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) are now open. The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Following a review of the Awards earlier this year, AAANZ is pleased to announce a new category, Best Medium Exhibition Catalogue. This […]

Applications Open | Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2020 round grants and awards

February 28, 2020Funding, Prizes

Every year the Australian Academy of the Humanities offers a series of prestigious grants and awards as part of their ongoing commitment to fostering and promoting the highest quality humanities research and supporting the next generation of scholars and practitioners. This year the Academy is offering the following opportunities: Max Crawford Medal Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise by an early career humanities researcher Medal for Excellence in Translation a major national award that recognises outstanding achievement in literary translation John Mulvaney Fellowship $4,000 awarded to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students to undertake research […]

2019 AAANZ Book and PhD Prizes

December 20, 2019Prizes

Congratulations to the following winners of the AAANZ Book Prizes and the PhD Prize for 2019, as announced at the AAANZ conference in Auckland. The full citations and judges comments for the prize winners click here. Best Book | Susan Lowish, ‘Rethinking Australia’s Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art’ (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018) Best Anthology | Sean Mallon and Sébastien Gallio, ‘Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing’ (Wellington: Te Papa Press and New South Publishing, 2018) Best Anthology: runner-up | Stephen H Whiteman, Sarena Abdullah, Yvonne Low and Phoebe Scott (eds.), ‘Ambitious Alignments:New Histories of Southeast Asian […]

2019 prizes

December 20, 2019Prizes

Best Book Prize $500 supported by the Power Institute, Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, The University of Sydney Susan Lowish, ‘Rethinking Australia’s Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art‘ (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018) From the judges: The judges faced an unenviable task of reading ten exceptionally fine, scholarly publications that […]

2018 prizes

December 20, 2018Prizes

2018 Prize winners Several publication prizes were awarded at the conference, by the outgoing President of the AAANZ, Anthony White. Best Book Prize – Thomas Crow, No Idols: The missing theology of art (Sydney: Power Publications, 2017) From the judges: Crow, we felt, broke new ground in his quest for a theology of art that pushed […]

2017 Prizes

June 30, 2018Prizes

2017 Prize Winners Best Book Judging the book prize this year was no easy task. Twelve books were in the running and each is an impressive contribution to our field. The diversity and creativity of this work is inspiring and convinces us that scholarship in art history is flourishing despite the ongoing pressure on the […]

Power Publications Prize for Indigenous Art Research

October 17, 2017News, Prizes

Interested in research and scholarly writing on Indigenous art? With an aim to foster critical understandings of Australian Indigenous art and culture, the Power Institute has established a dissertation prize for the best PhD, DPhil or Master by Research written on Indigenous art. The prize will be financial ($2,000) and the winning author will be invited to present their research at the University of Sydney. Academic supervisors will be invited to nominate candidates and a jury led by Professor Ian McLean, of the University of Melbourne, will select an awardee. Applications close September 2017. The prizes will be awarded annually […]

2016 AAANZ Prizes

December 16, 2016PrizesPrizes

Best Book | Mary Roberts, Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2015) Best Anthology | Not Awarded in 2016 Best Large Exhibition Catalogue | Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices eds. James Bennett and Russell Kelty (Adelaide: AGSA and Perth: AGWA, 2015) Best Small Exhibition Catalogue | Derek Kreckler: Accidents […]

AAANZ 2016 Book Prizes and PhD Prize

December 13, 2016News, Prizes

Congratulations to the following winners of the AAANZ Book Prizes and the PhD Prize for 2016, as announced at the AAANZ conference in Canberra. The full citations for the prize winners will be published on the prizes page soon. Best Book | Mary Roberts, Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2015) Best Anthology | Not Awarded in 2016 Best Large Exhibition Catalogue | Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices, eds. James Bennett and Russell Kelty (Adelaide: AGSA and Perth: AGWA, 2015) Best Small Exhibition Catalogue | Derek Kreckler: Accidents and Process, ed. Hannah Matthews (Melbourne: Perimeter […]

CHASS Australia Prizes 2016

May 17, 2016News, Prizes

The Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS). More information about our past winners is available here: http://www.chass.org.au/chass-media-releases/. Kindly note nominations are open for four categories: Book – cash prize of $3,500 sponsored by Routledge Distinctive Work: an artistic performance, exhibition, film, television show, play, composition, or practical contribution to arts policy – cash prize of $3,500 sponsored by Routledge Future Leader: an individual demonstrating leadership skills and potential in the humanities, arts, and social sciences – cash prize of $2,000 sponsored […]

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