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Event | Names in the Margins: Women’s Stories Rediscovered Through Melbourne’s Ghost Signs

January 19, 2026Events

Names in the Margins: Women’s Stories Rediscovered Through Melbourne’s Ghost Signs Behind Melbourne’s fading advertisements lie stories that were never meant to survive. In this talk, author and historian Sean Reynolds uncovers the hidden lives of women revealed through his Melbourne Ghost Signs research – stories found not only on walls, but in rate books, police files, directories, inquests, and the deep holdings of PROV – Victoria’s State Archives. From motor-garage pioneers and migrant shopkeepers to reinvention artists and women mis-recorded or misunderstood by history, Sean traces how small archival fragments can illuminate extraordinary lives. A lively journey through the […]

Call for Papers | 2026 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium

January 12, 2026Call for Papers

Abstracts deadline January 31st We are delighted to announce the eighth annual SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. This entirely virtual event will take place over Zoom from April 8-12, 2026. Undergraduate students are invited to submit abstracts for a 10-minute talk on any art historical topic of their choosing. We welcome research informed by any and all theories and methodologies and encourage interdisciplinary exploration. Submissions may include a version or part of an undergraduate thesis, an exceptional course paper, or independent research. Please send your title and abstract of no more than 300 words to Professor Keely Heuer […]

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2025

December 24, 2025AWAPA, News

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. Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2025. BEST BOOK Sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA Judges Emeritus Sasha Grishin AM FAHA and Dr Nicholas Croggon […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 AIAH Early Career Research Awards

December 24, 2025Grants, News

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne collaborated with AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. Two grants were awarded to the value of $10,000. GRANT RECIPIENT $10,000 funded by the Australian Institute of Art History Louise Rollman and Isabel Rousset, ‘Translating the Vienna School: Dr Gertrude Langer in Australia’s Asia-Pacific context’ Project Summary This research examines how Western models of global art history proposed by the Vienna School were applied by Viennese-born Australian art historian […]

Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize: Research-based

December 24, 2025News, 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 2025 the PhD Prize was open to research-based PhD entries, there were 26 entries of which, four were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Amelia Birch, ‘In a Paris studio: the transformative partnership of Agnes Goodsir and Rachel Dunn’, (University of Western Australia) Abstract At the start of the twentieth century there was a mass exodus of Australian female artists travelling abroad to further theirartistic […]

AAANZ President’s Report │December 2025

December 22, 2025News

2025 was my first year taking on the role as President for AAANZ, although I have been on the executive for many years there was still a lot to learn! My thanks to outgoing president Wendy Garden, and our ongoing Business Manager Rebecca Renshaw who both helped enormously with the transition. Our major project for 2025 was working through our registration as a charitable organisation so we could have Deductible Gift Recipient status. Wendy Garden had formally started this process in 2024, and there was a lot of work happening behind the scenes during 2025. Thanks to all members who […]

Vale | Dr Maudie Palmer AO

December 15, 2025News, Obituary

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.

Slade Lectures 2026 | Terry Smith – Frames of Vision

December 8, 2025Events

Terry Smith has been appointed Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Cambridge, 2025-2026. During Lent Term, January 27 to March 17, 2026, he will present a public lecture series entitled FRAMES OF VISION: THE INTELLIGENCE OF ARTISTS Flyer attached here The Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge was founded in 1869 as the result of a bequest from the art collector Felix Slade (1788-1868). At the same time, similar chairs were founded in the Universities of Oxford and London. Holders of the Chair usually deliver eight public lectures and four classes for students in the department of the […]

ARI REMIX NEWS ~ Summer Joy ~ ISSUE 1

December 8, 2025News

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‘Unruly Objects’ AAANZ Conference program available

December 1, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference ‘Unruly Objects’, December 3-5th We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to this year’s conference is hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies.The theme unruly objects 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, […]