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Symposium | Collecting and conserving early Australian Maps Symposium

June 22, 2023Events

Please join us for a public symposium exploring three of the most important early map collections in Australia with a particular focus on Dutch Golden Age maps showcasing recent innovations in their care and conservation. This symposium will feature engaging presentations from historians and researchers formative in the development of the map collections of the National Library of Australia, the Kerry Stokes Collection, and MONA as they discuss the history, significance, and motivation for these collections in the context of Australian mapping. Conservators from the University of Melbourne will describe their recent award-winning journey to conserve two different copies of […]

Job | Curator, Prints – University of Melbourne

June 22, 2023Jobs

Deadline: 16th July 2023 Website: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/913163/curator-prints Job no: 0036365 Location: Parkville Role type: Full-time; Continuing Department/School: Archives and Special Collections Salary: UOM 7 – $102,338 – $110,780 p.a. plus 17% super Curate, and enhance access to historically significant artworks, fostering engagement and innovative strategies. Work with one of the most prestigious print and drawing collections within Australia, featuring renowned artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and William Hogarth. $102,338 – $110,780 p.a., 17% super, benefits, and a flexible hybrid work environment! About the Role As the Curator, Prints, you will work with a team of specialist curators, collection managers, and engagement professionals to oversee the […]

Job | Curatorial Assistant, Gordon Darling Graduate Intern, National Gallery of Australia

June 22, 2023Jobs

Deadline: Applications close at midnight on Sunday, 2 July 2023 and should be emailed to recruitment@nga.gov.au Website: https://nga.gov.au/about-us/jobs/curatorial-assistant-gorgan-darlings-graduate-intern/ This position is situated in the Curatorial and Programs Portfolio, within the department of Prints and Drawings. It reports to the Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings and is responsible for the cataloguing of Australian prints and drawings. The collection of Australia prints, drawings, watercolours, artist books and illustrated books brings together works on paper by non-Indigenous artists that begins with pre-colonial contact, in Australia. Due to their immediacy and portability, drawings and watercolours provide the basis for the collection’s most historically significant depictions of […]

Symposium | Nineteenth-Century Worlds of Vision, 1820s-1870s, Canberra, July 16-18

June 22, 2023Events

This symposium brings together artists, curators and scholars of nineteenth-century visual culture who work across and beyond traditional art historical methods. The nineteenth century was a period of increased mechanisation and innovation for the visual arts. In the Global South, and the Australian colonies particularly, it was also a period of frontier violence and dispossession where sophisticated Indigenous practices of visualising Country and Kin were devastatingly upset. The papers in this symposium consider visual worlds in flux and tumult during the middle decades of the nineteenth-century. With panels on expanded portraiture; colonial science and the visual imaginary; photography and archival […]

Applications Open | Paris Residencies 2024

June 17, 2023Opportunity, Research Fellowship

PARIS STUDIO RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS 2024 – APPLICATIONS OPEN! The Power Institute is now receiving applications for the 2024 studio residency program in Paris. The Fellowship is open to a broad range of arts workers, including artists, curators, art historians and art administrators. The Fellowship covers the rental fee for a studio at the Cité des Arts Internationale in Paris for 3 months in 2024. Residency winners will also receive $6,000 towards travel and living expenses. Applicants can apply for one of three categories: a) For artists / craftspeople. b) For art critics, art writers, art curators, art historians or art […]

JOB | Director, Queensland College of Art

June 17, 2023Jobs

Director, Queensland College of Art Grey St, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia Full-time Primary Location (Campus): Southbank Campus – QCA Employment Type: Full Time Department ID: Queensland College of Art – QCA Appointment Type: Fixed Term Closing date: Friday, 30 June 2023 at 5pm AEST Company Description Creating a brighter future for all Griffith University is a progressive, values-led university dedicated to learning, leadership, and innovation. This is your chance to help us achieve our vision to transform lives and add to human knowledge and understanding in a way that creates a future that benefits all. Since opening in 1975, […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2023 ARE NOW OPEN

June 17, 2023AWAPA, Prizes

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. Categories for the AWAPAs include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Māori and Pasifika art writing. AWAPAs recognise: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area […]

CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA | SPECIAL ISSUE: DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN: “THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,” 24.1, 2024

June 17, 2023Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue: documenta fifteen: “the first exhibition of the twenty-first century,” 24.1, 2024. Editors: Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau Full article submissions due: 29 September 2023 This special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is edited by emerging art historians and critics Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau. They have worked together across numerous art historical editorial projects, including Index Journal, Discipline, and Memo Review. For ANZJA they focus on historicising documenta fifteen (2022). ANZJA is calling for […]

Book | Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

June 16, 2023Book

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East By Byung-Chul Han Translated by Daniel Steuer About the Book Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. Drawing on this fundamental distinction, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of […]

Call for papers | 36th CIHA Congress | Deadline 15 September 2023

June 16, 2023Call for Papers

The 36th CIHA Congress will host more than 90 panels over 4 days of conferences. Submission proposals are invited. Consult the list of panels on the website: Call for papers. The panels are divided into 15 themes on the submission platform for easy browsing. Check out the platform of the Call for papers here Proposals for papers must include: • a title • an abstract of 350 to 500 words • a CV of 500 characters Proposals will be reviewed by the chairs of the panels. Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 September 2023 Travel grants will be available. Call for […]