Category Archives: Publication

Blue Art Journal | Volume Two: we move through time / time moves through us

September 14, 2026Publication

Volume Two: we move through time / time moves through us Whether it’s about creative practices or personal moments weighing on us, reflecting on these experiences through creative writing and intimate essays rather than traditional arts writing is important, reflects Volume Two co-editor Timmah Ball Taking poetic shape in the contributions of Amanda Bell, Jayda Wilson and Jazz Money or the lyrical essay penned by Elliot John Nicol, Volume Two demonstrates a broad approach to arts writing. Mykaela Saunders’ short story ‘Taking Our Time’ from her award-winning collection Always Will Be provided a seed from which the volume grew, proving that fiction–particularly speculative fiction–can often reveal […]

Publication Launch | Follow the Plants

August 10, 2026Book, Events, Publication

Food Art Research Network and Bioart Society invite you to join us for a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, and published by Discipline and Onomatopee. Discipline discipline.net.au Follow the Plants onomatopee.net Follow the Plants is an expanded invitation to follow plants through histories, growing seasons, metabolic cycles, literature, art, bodies, archives, and collective ritual. Bringing together artworks, dialogues, roundtables, essays, and scores, the publication offers both examples of and prompts for collective research, tracing the multiple worlds through which plants circulate and generate meaning. The book’s contributions invite us into […]

Book │ Australian Women, Art and the Interwar Years

June 15, 2026Book, Publication

Australian Women, Art and the Interwar Years: Migration and Identity offers fresh perspectives on the challenges emerging from past nationalistic narratives of Australian art, particularly regarding the ways they have overlooked women’s agency in shaping Australian art and identity. Through a transnational theoretical framework, this book examines the experience of migration of strong-minded Australian women, who were influential cultural agents from the years directly following the end of the First World War until 1941—a pivotal period in the history of cultural relations between Britain and its dominions that has been overlooked in art history. It explores the complexities of cultural […]

EVENT | Women’s Art Register Roundtable: Things That Keep Us Together | 21 February

February 9, 2026Events, Publication

Event: Women’s Art Register Roundtable: Things That Keep Us Together When: 21 February, 2.30pm–3.15pm Where: The Bubble, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre More info: https://melbourneartfair.com.au/events/womens-art-register-things-that-keep-us-together/ The Women’s Art Register recently turned 50 — a major milestone for an archive shaped by a collective vision and sustained by volunteers. The new book, Keeping things together: 50 years of the Women’s Art Register, brings the Register’s history and ongoing impact on Australian culture to life. Join panellists Meredith Rogers, Lesley Dumbrell, Maya Hodge and Azza Zein, with moderator Anna Daly, for a lively discussion on art, archives and feminism, and to celebrate the things that […]

Book | Giorgione, Dante and the Sydney Incunable

January 19, 2026Publication

Melbourne University Press has just published in the early New Year a book, entitled: ‘Giorgione, Dante and the Sydney Incunable’, edited by Jaynie Anderson and John Gagne, a collaboration between the Vatican conservation department, the Monash synchreton, and the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, about the recent discovery of a drawing by Giorgione in the Sydney University Library. It may be ordered on AMAZON or MUP.

Book launch | From Berlin to the Bush to Brighton: Leonhard Adam’s Journey

November 10, 2025Publication

About Of the 2,500 men aboard the Dunera when it sailed in 1940, Leonhard Adam was probably the best known. He was a man of rare brilliance, a polymath who spoke numerous languages and had expertise in several fields. At the time he was deported on the Dunera, Penguin had recently published his book Primitive Art to considerable acclaim. Later, in his role at the University of Melbourne, Adam helped to pioneer interest in Australian Aboriginal art, and became the first person to teach Mandarin Chinese at an Australian university. His achievements and interests were diverse and many. In this special LJLA event, Mary-Clare Adam, […]

Call for publishers, designers and distributors | Object Book Fair

April 28, 2025Book, Events, Publication

Calling all publishers, designers and distributors This is an invitation to join us and promote your publications at an upcoming book fair in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The Object Book Fair will take place at Objectspace as part of Object Book Space; an events programme celebrating an object of design – the book – through a full-day symposium, book fair and more. Ahead of launching to the public, we warmly invite designers, publishers and distributors to book a table and share your publications during the Object Book Fair, taking place Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June, 11am – 4pm both days. For more information, and to […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the Early Career Publishing Program: Second Round

December 16, 2024Publication

The Early Career Publishing Program is an initiative developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. This is the second round, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the first round in 2022. In 2024 a committee comprising of senior and early career art historians selected a further two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three years. The selected writers will work with the series editors, Rex Butler and Anthony White, who will assist in the development […]

Journal | GUAN KAN | THINKING WITH CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART RELAUNCHED

October 28, 2024Journal, Publication

GUAN KAN: THINKING WITH CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART RELAUNCHED Guan Kan is a journal edited by undergraduate students at the University of Western Australia, and features essays and interviews about Chinese Contemporary Art by students in Australia and China. It was recently relaunched after a gruelling journey to Beijing and Chengdu by undergraduate, art history students from the School of Design that spent 10 hour days visiting studios and galleries, and meeting with contemporary artists. The relaunch features interviews with the two most influential thinkers on Chinese contemporary art, critic and curator Li Xianting and Lu Peng, ‘the Gombrich of Chinese […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE THIS COMING FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

August 26, 2024Funding, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is calling for proposals for book publications from recently completed doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. The series has been divided into two rounds, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the […]