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Exhibition honouring Margaret Manion opens at the University of Melbourne’s Old Quad

September 1, 2025Exhibition

The University of Melbourne’s Old Quad reopened this week with  Illuminating Minds, a new exhibition honouring one of Australia’s most pioneering art historians, Professor Emerita Margaret Manion. Illuminating Minds celebrates the life and work of Margaret Manion, a trailblazing scholar and member of the Sisters of Loreto, who dedicated her career to uncovering the extraordinary worlds hidden within illuminated manuscripts. Curated by University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts researchers Associate Professor Christopher Marshall, Dr Callum Reid, Dr Alice Helme and Dr Alison Inglis AM, in collaboration with the University’s Potter Museum of Art, the exhibition highlights Manion’s influence on the study […]

Ali Tahayori awarded the 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)

August 25, 2025News

Artspace and Create NSW would like to congratulate Ali Tahayori the recipient of the 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at the official exhibition launch at Artspace. Selected from six shortlisted finalists also including Ellen Ferrier, Ellie Hannon, Ali Noble, Vedika Rampal and Joel Sherwood Spring, Ali Tahayori will use the prestigious $30,000 Fellowship to undertake a self-directed program to develop his professional practice at this pivotal stage in his career. This edition of the 2025 Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) exhibition is curated by Sarah Rose, Associate Curator and Executive Assistant, Artspace, Sydney, and showcases works by all six shortlisted […]

Unruly Art in the Colony – Sovereign Art Histories: First Nations Open Panel

August 25, 2025News

Dear First Nations Friends, This is Jess, I’m one of the conference organizers for this years conference, themed Unruly Objects, at the University of Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. As a Palyku woman and Indigenous Studies academic, I would love for this edition to create a real space for First Nations art histories and stories. I’d welcome feedback and ideas from First Nations friends anytime. Reach me on jessyca.hutchens@uwa.edu.au and 0476 591 495. Some of the things we’re doing for this edition include curating more sections of the conference to include First Nations voices that might not usually engage with AAANZ; as well as […]

AAANZ PHD PRIZE: RESEARCH-BASED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 | DEADLINE 26 SEPTEMBER

August 25, 2025Member News, Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated research-based PhD students to enter the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize was reviewed by the AAANZ Prize Committee in consideration of feedback received from the judging panel. In 2024 the PhD Prize was split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize was practice-led but the eligible period remained 12 months for that year only (due to practice-led eligibility in […]

Call for Abstracts | ACUADS Conference 2025: Disobedience | 8 September

August 18, 2025Call for Papers

Disobedience ACUADS Conference 2025 Tuesday 2 December (online) Conference Convenors Associate Professor Ionat Zurr, University of Western Australia Associate Professor Katherine Moline, University of New South Wales Associate Professor Spiros Panigirakis, Monash University Disobedience Recent global and local events, directly impacting art and design institutions and cultural practitioners, reflect a growing fear of the power of creative practice. This demonstrates the perception of art and design as a force of disobedience. How University Art and Design Schools respond to such events has the potential to impact society at large. With the rise of global conflicts and populism, many research communities […]

PhD Scholarship in Art History and Theory | 12 September

August 17, 2025Scholarship

Location: Caulfield campus Employment Type: Full-time Duration: 3-year 6-month fixed-term appointment The successful applicant will receive a tax-free stipend of $36,063 per annum full-time rate. Monash University’s Art History and Theory Program in the Department of Fine Art is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity for a candidate to undertake research in Garden and Landscape History. This PhD scholarship is funded to contribute towards Professor Luke Morgan’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship Project ‘A Reception History of Landscape Design.’ The project aims to address the problem of how to develop a reception history of designed landscapes. It expects to generate new knowledge in […]

The Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History | Applications Open

August 11, 2025Research Fellowship

The Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History. Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is currently inviting applications for The Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History, funded by the Oroya and Melvin Day Trust. The fellowship is a 4-month full-time position designed for emerging or early-career scholars. The fellowship aims to promote research in Aotearoa New Zealand art history by providing the Fellow with an opportunity to work within an academic environment and teach a course in their specialist topic in New Zealand Art History during a summer trimester (November 2025 to […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE THIS FRIDAY, 8 AUGUST

August 4, 2025AWAPA, Prizes

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs CLOSE FRIDAY 8 AUGUST 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 […]

Petition to Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy

July 28, 2025AdvocacyAdvocacy

The Australian Historical Association has started a petition calling for the repeal of the Job-Ready Graduates Policy. The petition is addressed to the Parliament of Australia and the AHA are asking for people to support it. From the petition: During the debate over the JRG bill, Labor Senators correctly noted that the peculiar targeting of the humanities and social sciences on the grounds of their graduates not being job-ready was also “wrong”. They noted that these disciplines “offer students robust generalist educations, with strong employment prospects upon completion … [T]he evidence is that, three years after completion, [arts] graduates are […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

July 28, 2025AWAPA, Prizes