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      • The Michela and Adrian Fini Artist Fellowship
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Farewell to Valued Board Member Michela Fini We w Farewell to Valued Board Member Michela Fini

We warmly thank Michela Fini for her generous service and steadfast commitment to supporting Australian women artists. Michela’s leadership and vision have been central to the establishment of the Michela and Adrian Fini Artist Fellowship, a program that has provided vital support to contemporary women artists at pivotal moments in their careers.

Over its first three years, the Fellowship has enabled three exceptional artists to develop ambitious new work and present solo exhibitions across the CAOA (Contemporary Art Organisations Australia) network, expanding audiences and strengthening the future of their practices.

These early Fellowships speak to the importance of sustained advocacy and investment in women artists. As conversations continue around the next tranche of awards, we look forward to sharing more in due course.

We are deeply grateful to Michela for her generosity, leadership and advocacy, and wish her all the very best in what comes next. We’re delighted that she will remain a valued supporter and friend of Sheila.
Books We’re Reading This Summer – part 3 Our Books We’re Reading This Summer – part 3

Our summer reading turns to questions of visibility, equity and representation - books that examine who is seen, how histories are recorded, and the systems that shape women’s lives in art.

1. Becoming Modern: Australian Women Artists 1920-1950
(Louise Tegart & Julie McLaren, designed by Ben Cox)
A richly illustrated survey of over forty Australian women artists, tracing how international training, experimentation and persistence shaped modern art practice in Australia during the early twentieth century.

2. CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008
(Melinda Rackham & Elvis Richardson)
A sharp, data-driven feminist intervention exposing gender inequity in the Australian art world, combining rigorous research with humour, critique and calls for structural change.

3. Keeping Things Together: 50 years of the Women’s Art Register
(ed. Meredith Rogers & Lisa Roberts)
Marking fifty years of the Women’s Art Register, this polyvocal publication celebrates feminist archiving, collective care and the preservation of women’s artistic histories.

4. The Female Gaze in Art and Photography
(Anita Selzer)
Redressing the historic dominance of male perspectives, this publication examines art through women’s eyes, foregrounding contemporary artists and photographers who reclaim representation, subjectivity and agency.

5. The Female Gaze in Art and Photography: Volume Two
(Anita Selzer)
Building on the first volume, Selzer offers closer biographical and critical readings of women artists and photographers, tracing how the female gaze operates across themes of identity, intimacy, labour and lived experience.
Books We’re Reading This Summer – part 2 Our Books We’re Reading This Summer – part 2

Our summer reading continues with histories reclaimed, traditions carried forward, and voices that have shaped how women see, make and live with art - books that deepen context, expand narratives and invite reflection.

1. Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940
(ed. Elle Freak, Tracey Lock and Wayne Tunnicliffe)
This vital publication reclaims the international contributions of Australian women artists who travelled to Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, positioning them as central figures in modernism rather than peripheral observers.

2. Yawulyu: Art and Song in Warlpiri Women’s Ceremony
(Megan Morais, with the late Lucy Nampijinpa Martin, Warlpiri women of Willowra and Myfany Turpin)
A profound collaborative work documenting Warlpiri women’s ceremonial song, dance and design, created with and for the Willowra community to carry cultural knowledge across generations.

3. A Woman’s Eye, Her Art
(Drusilla Modjeska)
Modjeska revisits the lives and practices of modernist women artists who reshaped how women were seen and represented, weaving art history with enduring questions of visibility, freedom and courage.

4. Modern Australian Women Artists
(Andrée Harkness with Anne Gray, Caroline Jordan and Juliana Hooper)
One of the most comprehensive early studies of Australian women artists, this book foregrounds their artistic achievements, networks and resilience during a formative period in Australian modernism.

5. Ikuntji Textiles
(ed. Chrischona Schmidt)
A richly illustrated account of the artists, stories and collaborations behind Ikuntji Artists’ textile practice, celebrating wearable art grounded in language, place and community.

6. How to Live an Artful Life
(Katy Hessel)
A daily companion drawn from the words of artists, offering reflections and encouragement to live with curiosity, attentiveness and creative intent throughout the year.
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25 July 2019

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19 November 2019

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26 July – 6 October 2019

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