AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) Nominations

 

BEST BOOK

($1,000 sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA)​

1. John Clark, The Asian Modern (Singapore: National Gallery of Singapore, 2021)

2. Gretchen Coombs, The Lure of the Social – Encounters with Contemporary Artists (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2021)

3. Susan Ballard, Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021)

4. Louise Martin-Chew, Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art  (Brisbane: Queensland University Art Museum, 2021)

5. Susan Best, It’s Not Personal: Post 60s Body Art and Performance (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

6. Deborah Ascher Barnstone, The Colour of Modernism (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

7. Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)

8. Victoria Wynne-Jones, Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

9. Robyn Oswald-Jacobs and Nanette Carter, Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2021)

10. Anne Marsh, Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2021)

11. Claire Roberts, Fairweather and China (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2021)

12. Steve Miller, The Exhibitionists: A History of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2021)

13. Rex Butler and Laurence Simmons, Victory Over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2021)

14. Kerry Gardner, Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art  (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2021)

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BEST ANTHOLOGY

($500 sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne)

1. Snack Syndicate, Homework (Melbourne: Discipline, 2021)

2. Linda Waters, Sarah Hillary, Jenny Sherman, The Back of the Painting (Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2021)

3. Brad Haylock and Megan Patty (eds.), Art Writing in Crisis (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2021)

4. Sofia Pantouvaki and Peter McNeil (eds.), Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

5. Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin and Megan Patty, After: The Australian Ugliness (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria and Thames & Hudson, 2021.)

6. Natalya Lusty (ed.), Surrealism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)

7. Peter Vangioni with Tony de Lautour, Rachel King, Nic Low, Paul Scofield and Ariana Tikao, Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Sky (Ōtautahi Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puno o Waiwhetū, 2021)

8. Alastair CS Hunter, A Shared Vision: the Hunter Collection (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021)

9. Stephen Todd (ed.), Hybrid (Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2021)

10. Bronwyn Johnson and Kelly Gellatly, ART + CLIMATE = CHANGE 1 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2022)

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BEST ARTIST LED PUBLICATION

($500 sponsored by Monash Art, Design & Architecture, Monash University)

1. Gail Hastings, Space Practising Tools (Melbourne: Pigment Publishing, 2021)

2. Ruth Buchanan, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh (eds.), Uneven Bodies (Ngāmotu New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2021)

3. Lisa Radford (ed.), The Image is Not Nothing (Concrete Archives) (Adelaide: Art + Australia and Person Books, 2021)

4. Bianca Hester, Groundwork (Melbourne: Perimeter, 2021)

5. Denise Thwaites and Nancy Mauro-Flude, Economythologies (Tasmania: Despoinas Media Coven, 2021)

6. Julie Gough, Tense Past (Nipaluna Hobart: Tebrikunna Press, 2021)

7. Brook Andrews, Trent Walker and Maxine Briggs, Dual/Duel (Melbourne: Negative Press & Garru Editions, 2020)

8. Rebecca Holborn, ‘Always Knew You Were the Shape’ (Sydney: Minerva Gallery, 2017)

9. Fiona Foley, Bogimbah Creek Mission: The First Aboriginal Experiment (Brisbane: Pirri Productions, 2021)

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BEST ART WRITING BY AN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN

($500 prize money and new writing commission supported by Art Monthly)​

1. Warraba Weatherall, ‘Mimetic Archives: Recontextualising the Semiotics of the Archive’ in The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2021)

2. Fiona Foley, Bogimbah Creek Mission: The First Aboriginal Experiment (Brisbane: Pirri Productions, 2021)

3. Hetti Perkins, Girl, Interrupted (Sydney:  University of Technology Sydney, 2021)

4. Vicki Couzens, Keerray Wooroong Wooloowooroong Gunitjmara (Sydney:  University of Technology Sydney, 2021)

5. Julie Gough, Tense Past (Nipaluna Hobart: Tebrikunna Press, 2021)

6. Cara Pinchbeck, ‘Following Kungka Kutjarra’ in Henry Skerritt and Fred Myers (eds) Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together) Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists (Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2021)

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BEST WRITING BY AN AOTEAROA MĀORI OR PASIFIKA

($500 sponsored by the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū)​

1. Eugene Hansen/Maniapoto and Jenny Gillam (eds), Te Manu Huna a Tāne (Auckland: Massey University Press, 2020)

2. Talia Smith, There is no end (Sydney; University of Technology Sydney, 2021)

3. Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, Donna Campbell, Nathan Pōhio and Awhina Tamarapa Te Puna Waiora: The Distinguished Weavers of Te Kāhui Whiritoi (Ōtautahi Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puno o Waiwhetū, 2021)

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BEST SCHOLARLY ARTICLE IN THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ART JOURNAL

($500 sponsored by the Power Institute, Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, The University of Sydney)

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BEST UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION CATALOGUE 

($1,000 sponsored by the University Art Museums Association)

1. Ann Stephen (ed.), Light and Darkness: Late Modernism and the JW Power Collection.  (Sydney: Power Publications and Chau Chak Wing Museum, 2021)

2. Hannah Mathews and D Harding (eds.), Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation (Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art and Powered by Power, 2021)

3. Charlotte Day and Melissa Ratliff (eds.), Tree Story  (Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art and Monash University Publishing, 2021)

4. Tony Oates, Nicole Ellis: Fabrications (Canberra: Drill Hall Gallery Publishing, 2021)

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BEST LARGE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

($500 sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne)

1. Marnie Feneley, Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw, Atlas of Maritime Buddhism. (Kowloon: City University of Hong Kong, 2021)

2. Matthew Martin and Alison Inglis (eds.), HG60.  (Hamilton: Hamilton Art Gallery, 2021)

3. Wayne Crothers (ed.), Golden Shells and Elegant Games of Japan.  (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)

4. Katie Hanson, Julia Welch, Ted Gott and Miranda Wallace, French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021.)

5. Simon Maidment (ed.), Camille Henrot.  (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021.)

6. Petra Kayser (ed.), Goya: Drawing from the Prado. (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)

7. Anne Gray and Angela Hesson (eds.), She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism. (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)

8. Lauren Gutsell, Lucy Hammonds and Greg Donson, Joanna Margaret Paul – Imagined in the Context of a Room. (Ōtepoti Dunedin: Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2021.)

9. European Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery |Gallery of Modern Art, 2021.)

10. Miren Arzalluzet, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto. (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria and Thames & Hudson, 2021.)

11. Elle Freak, Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at Sea. (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021.)

12. Barry Patton (ed.), Tarnanthi. (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021)

13. Aurélie Verdier, Justin Paton and Jackie Dunn (eds.), Matisse: Life and Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2021.

14. Sue Cramer with Nicholas Chambers (eds.), Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings. (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2021.)

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BEST MEDIUM EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

($500 sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne)

1. Sophie Knezic, David Rosetzky: Composite Acts (Melbourne: Sonntag Press, 2021)

2. Lizzie Bisely (ed.), Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist (Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2021)

3. Els Hoek and Lizzie Bisely, Surrealist Art |He Toi Pohewa (Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2021)

4. Horacio Silva (ed.), Graphic Identities (Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2021)

5. Myles Russell-Cook, Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)

6. Anna-Marie White, Brett Graham: Tai Moana Tai Tangata (Ngāmotu New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2021)

7. Benjamin Law, Rosie Hays and Susan Best, William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen (Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 2021)

8. Tarun Nagesh, Reuben Keehan and Ruth McDougall, The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 2021)

9. Tracey Lock, The Present Moment: The Art of Clarice Beckett (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021)

10. Judith Blackall (ed.) Where Lakes Once Had Water: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (West Cambewarra: Bundanon Trust, 2021)

11. Megan Tamati-Quennell (ed.), D Harding: There is No Before (Ngāmotu New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre, 2021)

12. Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, Donna Campbell, Nathan Pōhio and Awhina Tamarapa Te Puna Waiora: The Distinguished Weavers of Te Kāhui Whiritoi (Ōtautahi Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puno o Waiwhetū, 2021)

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BEST SMALL EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

($500 sponsored by the University of Melbourne)

1. Brian Robinson, WARWAR: The Art of Torres Strait (Newcastle: Newcastle Art Gallery, 2021)

2. Angela Goddard, Robert MacPherson: Nominal Gestures (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2021)

3. Wouter Davidts and Angela Goddard, Round About or Inside (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2021)

4. Katherine Moline, Angela Goddard, Amanda Hayman & Troy Casey and Beck Davis, The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2021)

5. Julie Ewington (ed.), Source Materials (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2021)

6. Rebecca Rice and Matariki Williams, Nga Tai Whakarongorua | Encounters (Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara: Te Papa Press, 2021)

7. Jane Scott and Kirsty Grant, Flesh after Fifty: Changing Images of Older Women in Art (Melbourne: Abbotsford Convent, 2021)

8. Sam Beard, Susan Ecker | Subject: Studio (Collie: Collie Art Gallery, 2021)

9. Stella Rosa McDonald, There We Were All in One Place (Sydney: University of Technology Sydney, 2021)

10. Oscar Capezio, Out of Place (Canberra: Drill Hall Gallery, 2021)

11. Maria Cotter and Tess Cullen, Carbon Matter(s) (Armidale: Carbon Imprints, 2021)

12. Peter Vangioni, HELLZAPOPPIN’! The Art of Flying Nun (Ōtautahi Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puno o Waiwhetū, 2021)

13. Vanessa Van Ooyen, Angelina Hurley and Sandra Phillips, Fiona Foley: Veiled Paradise (Brisbane:  Queensland University Art Museum, 2021)​​​

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PhD Prize Nominations

1. Kirsty Baker Constituting the 'Woman Artist': A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand's Art History 1928 - 1989

2. Luise Guest (In)Visible Ink: enacting gender and Chineseness in contemporary art

3. Rebecca Edwards The supremacy of decoration: the influence and legacy of the decorative practice of Frank Brangwyn in the Edwardian era

4. Wendy Osmond The Making of Midnight Oil: Exhibition design and the translation of rock music from stage to museum

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Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) Art History Research Grants Nominations

1. Ekaterina Heath Reclaiming Danila Vassilieff – Memory and Hybridity in Artistic Production of a Displaced Nomadic Émigré within 20th Century Australian Modernism

2. Katrina Grant Reconstructing lost landscapes: evaluating the use of 3D and VR for studying landscape and garden history in early modern Italy

3. Robert Brennan Migration, Multilingualism, and Islamic Art in Renaissance Italy

4. Christina Clarke Chaîne opératoire as Art Historical Methodology: The Silver Furnishings of Louis XIV, 1666-1669

5. Victoria Adams  The “British Art Section” at the New Zealand International Exhibition in Christchurch 1906-7: its scope and impact on local taste

6. Wes Hill Jeff Gibson: Public Pictures

7. Shannon Kuziow (Gilmore) Pope Sixtus IV and the Cult of the Virgin Mary in Renaissance Rome

8. Anita Gowers The display of art in Van Diemen's Land; Colonial frames and frame makers

9. Yuexiu Shen Discovery of real Wang Qi and the 1920s Jingdezhen

10. Nerina Dunt From rapture to rupture: changing attitudes toward landscape conservation in Australian art

11. Matthieu Gallois The Aboriginal Flag

12. Crisia Constantine Public Art as Alternative Learning Environment

13. Kumiko Jacolin   Metamorphosis in Polarity: James Greig’s Manuscript on Kawai Kanjirō

14. Laini Burton Masks in Art, Fashion and Popular Culture: Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity

15. Sasha Grbich Radical Ghosts: addressing women’s experimental art practices in Australia 1974-1984 through FUMA’s POD Collection

16. Nikolas Orr A Global Perspective on Indigenous Contestation of Colonial Monuments: Locating Visual–Material Traces of Iconoclasm, 1970s–1990s

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