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Applications Open │ Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professor of Australian Studies 2025-26 and 2026-27

February 10, 2025News

Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professorship opportunity for senior HASS academics The AJF Visiting Professor of Australian Studies is intended to enhance Australia-Japan relationships via a funded, 10-month visiting position at the University of Tokyo. Applications are now open for two terms: 2025-26 and 2026-27. The International Australian Studies Association will be facilitating the Australian side of the application and interview process. More information can be found here Full Position Description is available here Please direct any enquiries to Professor Kate Darian-Smith (k.darian-smith@unimelb.edu.au), Chair of the Selection Committee on behalf of InASA, copying in InASA admin (a.szymanski@uq.edu.au). The closing date for applications (for both […]

Event │Dark Renaissance │Friday 28 February

February 10, 2025Events

Dark Renaissance 28 February 2025, 10am-5pm and online via Zoom Lecture Theatre 2, Old Geology Building, Parkville Campus, University of Melbourne The Renaissance period is associated with so many artistic and cultural innovations that it can be easy to overlook its darker aspects. But there is another side to this history, from toxic materials and techniques to violent images and social isolation. For this symposium, early modern specialists from across Australia and New Zealand will come together to take a new look at Renaissance, and a different lens on this fascinating and troubled period. The event is organised by the Australian […]

Job │Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales │Closes Sunday, 9 February

February 3, 2025Jobs

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (the Art Gallery), one of Australia’s leading cultural institutions, is seeking a dynamic and visionary Director / Chief Executive to lead it into a new era. Located in Sydney’s cultural precinct, the Art Gallery attracts millions of visitors annually and offers a space for inspiration and discovery. Its diverse collection spans Australian and international art with a special focus on First Nations art. The Art Gallery has recently been transformed by the Sydney Modern Project, enhancing its spaces and engaging new audiences. As it aims to strengthen its national and global position, the […]

Survey: Shaping the Future of Pacific Representation at the National Portrait Gallery

January 28, 2025General

An invitation to participate in a survey about Pacific Representation at the National Portrait Gallery. Survey blurb: We are seeking community insights to help guide a partnership between the National Portrait Gallery, the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, and the Oceania Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Your responses will inform how we can meaningfully celebrate Pacific peoples and cultures. When answering the following questions, please don’t be constrained by traditional notions of portraiture or art galleries. We would like to develop partnerships that extend beyond the walls of the National Portrait Gallery, and beyond the boundaries of […]

CALL FOR PAPERS │Perspective, no. 2026 – 1 : Learning/Teaching │ Deadline 10 February

January 20, 2025Call for Papers

Perspective will explore, in its 2026 – 1 issue, co-edited by Thomas Golsenne (INHA), Déborah Laks (CNRS) et Guy Lambert (École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville) to the question Learning/Teaching. Does one learn to become an artist? This question, which traverses the history of contemporary art, has never been resolved. It reflects – and confronts – aesthetic, philosophical, cultural and perhaps even religious concepts. From the standpoint of art history, however, the answer can only be positive, given that artistic production is largely a matter of artist-to-artist legacies and transmissions, whether on a daily basis in the studio and the closed circuit of the school or through the study of […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the Early Career Publishing Program: Second Round

December 16, 2024Publication

The Early Career Publishing Program is an initiative developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. This is the second round, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the first round in 2022. In 2024 a committee comprising of senior and early career art historians selected a further two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three years. The selected writers will work with the series editors, Rex Butler and Anthony White, who will assist in the development […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 AIAH Early Career Research Award

December 16, 2024Funding, Grants

The Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) at the University of Melbourne is collaborating with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) on a new annual award. The aim is to foster new and innovative research and public engagement by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Award of $25,000 is granted to Mary McGillivray and Kirsten Banks for their project “ArtStronomy: Communicating Intersections Between Art and Astronomy Through History”. GRANT RECIPIENTS $25,000 funded by the Australian Institute of Art History Mary McGillivray and Kirsten Banks, ‘ArtStronomy: Communicating Intersections Between Art and Astronomy Through History’ Project Summary Join ABC […]

Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize: Practice-Led

December 16, 2024News, 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 2024 the PhD Prize was open to practice-led PhD entries, of which, three were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Yvette Hamilton, ‘Photography at the Event Horizon: The Appearance and Disappearance of a Medium’, (University of Sydney) Abstract On April 10th, 2019, scientists unveiled the world’s first ever photograph of a black hole, declaring, “we have seen what we thought was unseeable.”* The photograph of […]

JOB │ Lecturer, Visual Arts │ La Trobe University

December 16, 2024Jobs

La Trobe University seeks to appoint an outstanding candidate to a continuing full- position as a Lecturer in Visual Arts. This teaching and research position is designed to contribute to the Bachelor of Visual Arts based at the Bendigo campus, and the Visual Cultures major that is part of the Bachelor of Arts. View further information including the position description and how to apply here

Open Call │Arquetopia │ Anti-colonial curriculum

December 16, 2024Opportunity, Teaching and Learning

As the world reconfigures itself in the 21st century, the role of art has become vital in rethinking our relationship to justice. On its 15th anniversary, Arquetopia celebrates its academic legacy by further expanding its anti-colonial curriculum across all residency programs. Participating artists can now deepen their practice through a diverse range of instructional residencies, including natural pigments, ceramics, printmaking, organic paint, and gold leafing, as well as various textile mediums such as backstrap loom weaving, embroidery, and tapestry. Arquetopia invites visual artists, designers, writers, and students aged 22 and over to apply for our special artist-in-residence scholarships. Our residencies […]