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Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture

March 9, 2026Call for Papers

Call for Papers The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday 1 October 2026 Co-organisers: Mimi Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Victoria Souliman (University of Sydney). This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds how women creatives working across image-based practices mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. We encourage contributions […]

AWARD | The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research | Now Open

March 2, 2026Award

Now in its third year, this annual award offers NZD$1500 for research related to the New Zealand-born artist Len Lye – his films, sculptures, life and ideas. The award is open to students, recent graduates, and researchers interested in film or the visual arts. 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 […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | CLOSE this Friday 6 March

March 2, 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 […]

Petition | Call for a national inquiry into Arts Education and Training in Australia

March 2, 2026Advocacy

The National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) has a campaign and petition calling on the federal governments to address the decline in arts education at all levels, see below and read more on their website: https://naae.org.au/news/call-to-action Petition link: https://www.change.org/p/call-for-a-national-inquiry-into-arts-education-and-training-in-australia Based on recent research, the NAAE calls for urgent federal action. You can help alert your local member to this new evidence about the serious decline in arts education at all levels. In the meantime, NAAE has written to relevant Federal Ministers. Through its leadership in initiating research and sustained national advocacy, NAAE has worked for many years to document, highlight […]

Exhibition | Suzann Victor Illuminates Art Basel Hong Kong 2026

February 23, 2026Exhibition

[AU] Suzann Victor’s City Lantern Illuminates Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.docx Gajah Gallery is proud to present Singaporean artist Suzann Victor’s monumental kinetic installation City Lantern at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. The work will be shown at Booth EN12, Level 3 as part of Encounters, the sector dedicated to large-scale installations, sculptures, and performances. City Lantern is a 3.6-metre-wide kinetic installation in which a ten-meter photographic mural rotates slowly behind a ring of Fresnel lenses. The composition weaves together approximately sixty architectural sites across the region, mapping a visual geography shaped by empire, migration, and modernity. These buildings act as palimpsests, carrying the legacies of war, […]

Nominations for the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards | Deadline Extended to Firday 6 March

February 23, 2026Award

There is still time to nominate for the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards! With a total of 11 individual and project-based awards on offer, don’t miss this opportunity to be recognised in the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards. Winners will be announced and showcased at the industry’s night of nights, to be held at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) on Tuesday 28 April 2026. The evening will be hosted by proud Butchulla Mununjhali Woppaburra woman, artist, comedian & playwright Janty Blair. If you know a person or a project that deserves recognition, nominate now! Deadline extended to 5pm, Friday 6 March 2026. It is FREE to nominate. Eligible projects […]

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

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 […]