Category Archives: Prizes

AAANZ Prizes | Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) close Friday, 31 July, 2020

July 3, 2020Prizes

Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) close Friday, 31 July, 2020. 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 […]

Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

June 19, 2020Prizes

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 […]

Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

May 29, 2020Prizes

Awards | First Nations Arts Awards

May 22, 2020Prizes

First Nations Arts Awards 2020 Wednesday 27 May 2020, 6.00pm AEST – LIVE online Formerly the National Indigenous Arts Awards, the First Nations Arts Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding creativity and lifetime achievements of First Nations artists. The awards are held annually on 27 May marking the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum. Due to the impact of COVID-19, the recipients of this year’s awards will be revealed during a live streamed event, hosted by Deputy Chair Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Chair of the First Nations Arts Strategy Panel and Sydney Festival Artistic Director Wesley Enoch, with a guest performance from the Stiff Gins. On […]

Awards | Entries Open | AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards

May 15, 2020Book, Prizes

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 […]