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professor bonnie english

July 30, 2013News

The AAANZ sends its respects to the family and colleagues of Associate Professor Bonnie English who passed away on 25 June 2013. Bonnie spent much of her life building up the area of fashion research, gained an international reputation in the area, and staged the first exhibition of Japanese fashion in Australia, ‘Tokyo Vogue’, in 1999, which I reviewed at the time for ‘Art Monthly’. Bonnie was a regular conference speaker at AAANZ over the years and she will be missed by her community at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University where she worked since 1975. Peter McNeil

camouflage cultures

July 30, 2013News

To be held at the University of Sydney, 8-11 August. Read more…

phd graduate prize

July 18, 2013News

A new competition for recent PhD Graduates to be judged on Saturday 7 December 2013. The outstanding presentation will receive $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis the new publisher of the AAANZ journal. Read more…

the practice of drawing lines: architecture and art

July 18, 2013News

12-14 August, read more

new directions for aaanz journal

May 6, 2013News

As the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand approaches its 40th anniversary I’m delighted to announce a number of significant changes for our Journal of Art. A new publisher In 2014 we will partner the international publisher Taylor & Francis, allowing us to maintain the highest standards of scholarship into the 21st century while streamlining production. The change will give our journal online global reach while members will continue to receive a hard copy. A new editorial committee Our new editorial committee is to be hosted by Power Professor Mark Ledbury, Power Institute, The University of Sydney who will be working with Dr Keith Broadfoot, […]

daao

May 6, 2013News

Design and Art of Australia Online (www.daao.org.au) is the next generation of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, which in turn had its origins in Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists. Despite its incomplete state, the DAAO is already the most comprehensive data base on Australian visual culture, and as such is proving to be a valuable research tool. freely available to all. Its new iteration enables researchers to modify existing incomplete entries, and also to write on exhibitions and associated events, as well as writing on curators. There is however one category of entry that cannot be altered: those entries that […]

joan kerr biography

February 24, 2013News

Dr Susan Steggall’s biography of art historian Joan Kerr – ‘A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian’, has just been published by LhR Press. A MOST GENEROUS SCHOLAR: JOAN KERR, ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN is an important record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art history students but also a scholar whose work changed the way Australians view their visual cultural heritage. The book is a comprehensive record of the work of an important Australian art historian who was not only a mentor to many art […]

bacon symposium

February 7, 2013News

Saturday 9 February – click here for details

save art in TAFE

December 16, 2012Advocacy, News

Address by Ann Stephen, President, AAANZ 19 November 2012 There is widespread concern at the closure of TAFE art training across all sectors of the arts. The Art Association of Australia & NZ (AAANZ) calls on the government to restore public funding for TAFE arts courses across Australia. Last weekend the Arts Section of the Australian Academy of Humanities also expressed concern at the proposed closure in the TAFE sector. Since all education is a continuum that leads potentially into tertiary studies every sector needs to support potential. Both AAANZ and the Academy are particularly concerned at how the closure […]

colonial art exhibitions: past, present, future

November 11, 2012News

Two Day Symposium Dates: Friday 23 November and Saturday 24 November Venue: Sunderland Theatre, Medicine (Building 181), The University of Melbourne Date: Friday 23 November 2012, evening session 6.15 – 8.00 pm Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012, day session 10.00am – 4.15pm Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Overview: The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Australian colonial art, with an unprecedented number of important exhibitions being held in our major art galleries (national, state and regional) and libraries. This symposium […]

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