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Event | She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History | 25 March

February 23, 2026Events

She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History brings together Dr Scarlette Nhi Do, Professor Zoë Laidlaw and PhD candidate Kacey Sinclair for a timely conversation about women’s influence in shaping Victoria’s past. From Lady Gladys Nicholls’ overlooked Indian-Australian heritage and activism, to Janet Biddlecombe’s pastoral wealth and philanthropic power rooted in colonial dispossession, to Fanny Finch’s resistance as a woman of colour in gold-rush Victoria, this event interrogates how women’s labour, leadership and legacies are remembered. Together, these historians ask: whose histories endure, whose are erased and how should we reckon with them today? When: 6:00pm -7:15pm Wednesday […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

February 23, 2026ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the Journal […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

February 16, 2026ANZJA, Call for Papers

EVENT | ILLUMINATING MINDS SYMPOSIUM AND CONCERT | 14 FEBRUARY

February 9, 2026Events

ILLUMINATING MINDS: A Symposium Celebrating the legacy of Professor Margaret Manion IBVM AO FAHA (1935-2024) Invitation to attend the forthcoming symposium and concert celebrating the legacy of Professor Margaret Manion IBVM AO (1935-2024), who pioneered the study of Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in Australia. The symposium brings together many of Professor Manion’s former students and colleagues, who will be presenting papers on aspects of their research and reflecting on her influence. The symposium will be followed by a concert at Newman College’s Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Date: Saturday 14th February 2026 Symposium venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, The […]

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 […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

February 9, 2026ANZJA, Call for Papers

2nd Call for Submissions | NordiCHI 2026

February 2, 2026Call for Papers

2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7, 2026 Calls for research papers, critiques, panels, industry experience papers, arts-based approaches, workshop proposals, tutorials, demos, late-breaking work, and doctoral consortium contributions for NordiCHI 2026 are available at the conference website: https://nordichi2026.org/ Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts – including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly […]

Exhibitions | Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove and Bridget Baskerville | Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

February 2, 2026Events, Exhibition

Join Goulburn Regional Art Gallery on Friday 13 February with an artist tour with Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove commencing at 5:30pm, and the opening event commencing at 6pm to celebrate the launch of the Gallery’s brand new exhibitions! 5:30pm Exclusive exhibition tour with exhibiting artists Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove as they walk audiences through their brand new bodies of work on display which, in distinct ways, explore family, memory and place. 6-8pm Celebrate the opening of all of our new exhibitions including Brenda L Croft’s after/image, Prue Hazelgrove’s Re:Generation & Bridget Baskerville’s Conduit. The exhibition will be […]

Event | Perth Festival exhibitions for 2026 | Birrundudu Drawings and Gracie Greene – It’s Time

February 2, 2026Events, Exhibition

Invitation for major Perth Festival exhibitions for 2026, the monumental Birrundudu Drawings of rarely seen works from 1945 created at a remote cattle station by sixteen men, and a long overdue and first solo retrospective of paintings by Gracie Greene – It’s Time (curated by Lynley Nargoordah and Lee Kinsella ), both at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Please feel free to share far and wide and particularly with mob! These exhibitions have both been many years in the works, and the Berndt Museum is thrilled that many descendants, artists, and those with cultural ties to the works, will be travelling down to join what […]

EVENT | 2026 International Women’s Day Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon | 7 March Richmond Library

February 2, 2026Events

2026 International Women’s Day Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Sat, 7 Mar, 10:30am – 2pm AEDT Richmond Library Sign up here: https://events.humanitix.com/2026-international-women-s-day-art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon In 2026, celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) by helping Yarra Libraries and the Women’s Art Register close the gender gap in Wikipedia articles and editors in our Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. As the largest general reference work on the internet, Wikipedia is hugely popular but just 20% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. The Women’s Art Register works to improve the prominence of women artists online and with their archive at Richmond Library. Join us to amplify the […]