The following positions may be of interest to subscribers. Please follow the links for the position descriptions. 1. Manager, Warmun Art Centre, East Kimberley, Western Australia – deadline 16 January 2017 2. Gallery Coordinator, Warmun Art Centre, East Kimberley, Western Australia – deadline 16 January 2017 3. Art Centre Manager, Tjala Arts, Amata, APY lands, Central Australia – deadline 1 February 2017
A library without librarians is a just a shed full of books Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW Australia; Catherine De Lorenzo, UNSW Australia, and Catherine Speck, University of Adelaide For some years we have been researching the how, why and wherefore of exhibitions of Australian art. We have tracked down retired curators and art museum directors, recording their memories before they fade. We have crossed the country to see exhibitions. But most of the time we have been buried in archives and libraries. While large public libraries are excellent for general research, those small specialist libraries attached to state and national art […]
Congratulations to the following winners of the AAANZ Book Prizes and the PhD Prize for 2016, as announced at the AAANZ conference in Canberra. The full citations for the prize winners will be published on the prizes page soon. Best Book | Mary Roberts, Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2015) Best Anthology | Not Awarded in 2016 Best Large Exhibition Catalogue | Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices, eds. James Bennett and Russell Kelty (Adelaide: AGSA and Perth: AGWA, 2015) Best Small Exhibition Catalogue | Derek Kreckler: Accidents and Process, ed. Hannah Matthews (Melbourne: Perimeter […]
Lecturer (Art History and Curating) The Faculty of Art Design and Architecture is seeking a Lecturer with a distinguished scholarly record, for our Art History program. Our faculty prides itself on achieving high standards of education delivery, fostering the University’s world-renowned research culture and cultivating excellence through the successful mentoring of students. As the Lecturer (Art History and Curating), you will teach a number of existing undergraduate courses both to students undertaking visual art practice and to art history and curating students. You will have the opportunity to undertake the supervision of Honours students and the co-supervision of post-graduate students. […]
The AAANZ Annual Conference held in Canberra last week was a great success, with many delegates coming to the capital and a particularly large student attendance. The Conference Committee would like to thank all those who participated in making this year’s conference such a terrific occasion. A special thanks to all of our presenters, our keynote speakers Melissa Chiu and Anthea Callen, and artist Peter Tyndall whose artwork was a signature of the conference. We look forward to seeing everyone next year in Perth.
A Funded PhD Scholarship on the Architectural Patronage of William Wardell in Colonial Melbourne Applications close on 20 January 2017 The School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne is seeking a candidate for a doctoral scholarship on a collaborative research project funded by the Australian Research Council on the architectural patronage of the first Catholic Archbishop in Colonial Melbourne and the British born architect William Wardell. The successful candidate will develop their thesis as a member of a dynamic inter-disciplinary team (Professor Jaynie Anderson, Shane Carmody and Professor MaxVodola), working in partnership, over a period […]
Ann Elias, Associate Professor at the Sydney College of the Arts, has been appointed to the International Committee of the American College Art Association (CAA). The position is for three years and Ann has proposed this will present an opportunity to strengthen ties between the CAA and the AAANZ. The term begins at the upcoming annual conference in February 2017 in New York, and will continue through the annual conference in February 2020 in Chicago. The International Committee seeks to foster an international community of artists, scholars, and critics within CAA; to provide forums in which to exchange ideas and make […]
We are delighted to announce art historian Mary Roberts was included in the election of 21 new Fellows to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the highest honour available for achievement in the humanities in Australia. Fifteen Fellows, three Honorary Fellows and three Corresponding Fellows have been elected at the Academy’s Annual General Meeting on 19 November 2016. Fellows are elected in recognition of the excellence and impact of their scholarship in the humanities. Honorary Fellows are elected in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the public life of the humanities and the arts, both in Australia and internationally. Corresponding Fellows […]
The AAANZ 2016 Conference e-program is now available for download as a pdf. The e-program include conference session and paper abstracts and speaker biographies is can be downloaded via this link (pdf 3.4M) The basic conference timetable with times and locations of each session, keynotes and other events can be downloaded here. Please note the following events Thursday 9am-5pm – Post-graduate student day (Sir Roland Wilson Building, Australian National University) Thursday 6pm – Keynote by Dr Melissa Chiu (James Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia) Friday 9am – Keynote by Dr Anthea Callen (Manning Clark Lecture Theatre, Australian National University) Friday […]
On Friday December 2 from 5.30- 7.30 pm the AAANZ 2016 Conference Committee and the National Portrait Gallery will be hosting a party at the National Portrait Gallery. This is a ticketed event (in addition to conference registration) and numbers are limited. All conference participants are eligible to purchase a ticket for themselves, and up to one invited guest, at a cost of $25 per person. This event includes entry to the current exhibition The Popular Pet show. To purchase a ticket to this event please note that you must use a credit card via the ANU online portal system, no […]
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