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Call for Papers | Colnaghi Studies Journal Symposium | Deadline 5 May

April 16, 2025Call for Papers

Impressions of Empire: Works on Paper as Agents of Intermedial Translation and Cultural Exchange The Colnaghi Foundation and Athena Art Foundation in London are delighted to announce a symposium on 25th September 2025, exploring how works on paper were used to construct meaning and identity, and engendered the intermediary exchange of artistic ideas, during the period of global empire and colonisation. The symposium will be hosted both online and in the Colnaghi Gallery in London (although no travel grants are available). Papers can be given in English, and we welcome submissions in other languages with prior agreement. A selection of […]

Call for Sessions | AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Deadline 28 April

April 14, 2025News

The call for sessions for the 2025 AAANZ Conference ‘Unruly Objects’ is now open. Proposal due date: Monday 28 April Enquiries and questions to the conference committee conf@aaanz.info Submit a Proposal Conference Theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference 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, or brimming with vitality, power or ancestral subjectivity. Panel convenors and formats […]

Cultural conservation centre to become part of world-leading research institute

April 14, 2025Funding, News

Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. The establishment of the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation, which will expand upon the pioneering work of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, was announced today by the University of Melbourne. Minsmere Pty Ltd, as a subsidiary of the Cripps Foundation, has donated $15 million to establish the Institute, building upon a $6.9 million donation from the Foundation in 2013. The […]

Khaled Sabsabi & Michael Dagostino fund raising for Venice Biennale

April 7, 2025Advocacy

As has been widely reported, Australia’s entry in the next Venice Biennale was axed by Creative Australia after political interference. As the Guardian Australia article explains, this has widespread implications for Khaled, and what sould be argued for all Australian artists and curators. Khaled and Michael have now started a fundraising campaign so that the installation can go ahead without government support. Please see this link to Khaled and Michael‘s fundraising page? A follow up statemnt from AAANZ is forthcoming.

Call for Sessions | AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Deadline 28 April

April 7, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

Award | The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

April 7, 2025Award

This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of NZD$1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at least one of the following categories: An unpublished research essay on some aspect of Len Lye’s sculpture, film-making, or work in other genres, or his ideas, or his aesthetics; An unpublished research essay which makes an original contribution to knowledge of Lye’s life and […]

Victorian Community History Awards winners announced

March 31, 2025Award

Public Record Office Victoria and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria were pleased to present the 2024 Victorian Community History Awards at a ceremony at the Langham in Southbank. Art consultant and historian Rodney James won the Victorian Premier’s History Award for Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art. The book provides a detailed examination of McCulloch, one of Australia’s longest-practising art critics who championed emerging artists and promoted a new awakening in modern art in Melbourne in the 1960s. The judges said: Letters to a Critic makes an important contribution to the history of Melbourne and Victoria’s art worlds and […]

Call for Sessions | AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Deadline 28 April

March 25, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

Job | Head of School, School of Art & Design | Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture UNSW

March 24, 2025Jobs

Head of School, School of Art & Design – Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture UNSW Apply now Job no: 530862 Work type: Full Time Location: Sydney, NSW Categories: Head of School / Director 5-year leadership appointment Employment Type: Full time Remuneration: Competitive industry salary package Location: Paddington Campus, Sydney, New South Wales (Hybrid Flexible Working) About us: At UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture we use creativity, collaboration and inclusion to seek and solve problems to improve life on earth. Our Faculty’s defining purpose is driven by a desire to listen, challenge, create and share diverse knowledge about people, places and culture. We pride ourselves […]

Applications open | 2026 Fellowships at the National Library of Australia

March 24, 2025Research Fellowship

Applications are now open for the 2026 Fellowships offered by the National Library of Australia. Researchers and creative writers are encouraged to apply for nine philanthropically funded Fellowships offered by the National Library of Australia in 2026. This year, the amount of financial assistance has increased, with a total of $315,000 of funding available. Successful applicants will each receive $35,000 to support a sustained residency at the National Library in Canberra, as well as supported access to the Library’s collections, increased borrowing privileges, a dedicated desk in the Library’s Petherick Reading Room, and an allowance for high resolution digital copies […]