Launch: Art + Australia Digital Archive and ‘The Fever’

Please join us for to celebrate the launch of Art + Australia’s new digital archive and their latest magazine issues ‘The Fever’ Part One and Part Two (forthcoming).  

The event will be hosted by Charlotte Day (Associate Director Art Museums, University of Melbourne) and the archive will be launched by Victoria Lynn (Director of TarraWarra Museum of Art). Tony Clark’s exhibition Unsculpted will be open during the event. 

About the Archive 

In 2024, Art + Australia published their open archive, a compilation of freshly scanned high-resolution issues of Art + Australia dating back to 1963. The archive includes over 4000 articles, reviews, auction listings and much more that chronicle key developments in art from Australia and abroad. With contributions by key writers and artists such as Alexis Wright, James Gleeson, Elwyn Lynn, Warwick Thornton, Rex Butler, Julie Ewington, Djon Mundine, Brenda L. Croft and many more.   

About ‘The Fever’ Part One and Two 

The Fever Part One and Two interrogates the archive and its role in artistic practice and research. Contribution to the issues by artists and scholars highlight the shifting role of the archive from a static repository to an active force, power structure and colonial structure to be contested, revised and interrogated   

Contributors 

‘The Fever’ (Part One) 
Editor: Jeremy Eaton 
Design Editors: Karen ann Donachie and Andy Simionato 
Contributors: Peta Clancy, Jahkarli Romanis and Kirsten Garner Lyttle, Lisa Liebetrau, Thomas Moran, Loqui Paatsch, Aimee Dodds and Tim Burns, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Caitlin Hughes, Jacqui Shelton and Roberta Joy Rich, Jane O’Sullivan, Elly Kent, Stephanie Siu, Zoe Theodore, Natasha Bullock, Erica Tarquinio. 

‘The Fever’ (Part Two)
Editor: Jeremy Eaton 
Design Editors: Karen ann Donachie and Andy Simionato
Contributors: Kim Feng Cheong, Perin Gulsen, Rosie Isaac, Raafat Ishak, Keiran Molaeb, Lara Oluklu, Lisa Radford, Azza Zein, Matariki Williams, Olivia Jane Bennett, Brandon Liew, Adrian Fernandez, Rowan McNaught, James Nguyen, Hugh Magnus.