Ed Hanfling Otago Harbour, 1978, an “intimate map” by Joanna Margaret Paul R00m F209 Puna Kawa, F Block Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street Dunedin Wednesday 20 March 5:30 pm Joanna Margaret Paul, Otago Harbour, 1978. Synthetic polymer paint and collage on paper, 535 x 740 mm. Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, acc. […]

Colonial panorama to digital reality: A Practice-based analysis of nineteenth century and contemporary immersive arts Philip Madill, Auckland University of Technology Wednesday 20 September Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5 – 7 pm Philip Madill, Displacement of Accent, graphite on paper, 2023 This seminar will explore, through practice-based research, the evolution […]

Research Seminar: Cultures, Histories, Identities in Visual Studies Research Network July 19, 2023 Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5 – 7 pm   Visual diffusion and spiritualist practice: a research project on three spiritualists in Aotearoa New Zealand. Minnie Chapman (1856-1949) Sophia Garland Allan (1867-1959) Berta Sinclair Burns (1893-1972) Joanna Osborne […]

Research Seminar: Cultures, Histories, Identities in Visual Studies Research Network  3 May  2023 Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5 – 7 pm   “Digit Painting – brown/purple over pink, 2022, by Noel Ivanoff” Ed Hanfling, Dunedin School of Art Noel Ivanoff, Digit Painting – brown/purple over pink, 2022, oil on plywood […]

Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm Painted Visions of Propriety: Raja Ravi Varma and the Feminine Ideal in Indian Visual Culture Radhika Raghav, University of Otago Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) Damayanti and the Swan, (c.1880s), oil on canvas. In nineteenth-century India, against the backdrop of colonial industrialisation and rising […]

Approaching Extinction: Anthropological and Environmental Encounters in Literature and Cinema Sydney University and Online, 12–14 July, 2023 Deadline for submission: 15 March, 2023   The Sydney Literature and Cinema Network welcomes proposals for single papers, audio-visual essays and pre-constituted three-person panels on the topic of ‘Anthropological and Environmental Approaches to Literature and Cinema’. In the […]

Exhibition New Dunedin Painting (redux) is co-curated by Cultures, Histories and Identities Research Network member Michael Greaves. Its catalogue features writings from Ed Hanfling and Leoni Schmidt. For more information click on the following links: Wave Project Space Facebook page Instagram Wave Project Space.Otepoti  

Kate Fitzharris: Companion Piece This new issue of the Occasional Essay Series, Kate Fitzharris: Companion Piece, includes essays by Visual Studies Research Network members Cecilia Novero and Hilary Radner. Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner, eds, Kate Fitzharris: Companion Piece (Dunedin: RDS Gallery, 2022). ISBN 978-1-99-117302-7 (softcover); ISBN 978-1-99-117303-4 (PDF) with essays by Cecilia Novero and […]

The current issue of ART NEW ZEALAND includes the following articles by our Research Network members, Joanna Osborne and Ed Hanfling. Congratulations to both! Joanna Osborne, ”Allie Eagle (1949-2022),” Art New Zealand 183 (Spring 2022): 55–57. Edward Hanfling, review of ”Deborah Rundle: ’Tomorrow is Today Now,’” Art New Zealand 183 (Spring 2022): 65.  

This new issue of the Occasional Essay Series, They Came to Me in the Night: Selected Works by Wesley John Fourie, includes essays by Visual Studies Research Network members Bridie Lonie and Alistair Fox. Lonie, Bridie and Alistair Fox. They Came to Me in the Night: Selected Works by Wesley John Fourie. Dunedin: RDS Gallery. […]