AAIA 2022 Contemporary Creative Resident in Athens Announced
The AAIA is very pleased to announce that its 2022 Athens Contemporary Creative Residency has been awarded to Anna Fairbank. Anna is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice focuses on the intersection of art, architecture and the environment.
Art and Archaeology: Creative arts on an archaeological site
Emma Conroy and Craig Barker explain a unique relationship between contemporary artists and the Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project.
AAIA 2020 CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE RESIDENCY AWARDED
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s AAIA Contemporary Creative Residency at Athens has been awarded to the London based Australian artist Scott Miles. Scott pushes his paintings toward the limits of vision; he is interested in systems that sit at the edge of representation, where the eye cannot perform satisfactorily. His practice considers …
Wine, Oil and COVID-19:
The impact of a global pandemic on island life, archaeological fieldwork and international travel Dr Emlyn Dodd, AAIA Fellow in Greece, was conducting fieldwork when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. He shares his experience with us. When you begin a new fieldwork project as an archaeologist, you expect to encounter some obstacles – things that require …
SoMA and the Olwen Tudor Jones Scholarship
In 1997 a group of archaeology students and associated professionals teamed up to create a society based at the University of Sydney. Named the Young Members Promotion Committee of the Foundation for Classical Archaeology, its organising committee consisted of Catorina Angus, Craig Barker, Steven Ellis, Matt McCallum, Beatrice McLoughlin, Andrew Merryweather, Wayne Mullen, Helen Nicholson, …
Celebrating Olwen Tudor Jones on International Women’s Day
This year on International Women’s Day we have delved into the AAIA Archives and unearthed a rare film interview with Olwen Tudor Jones. Olwen Tudor Jones (1916-2001), was an archaeologist, finds manager, archivist, teacher and mentor. She was Research Assistant to the AAIA’s founding director, the late Professor Alexander Cambitolgou. She was an amazing woman …