We are excited to announce Gail Harradine as the Women’s Art Register x Seventh 2024 Artist Residency recipient!

Gail will begin her residency in Richmond in March, commencing with a guided research period at WAR, then undertaking a studio residency at Seventh Gallery, integrating the research into her artistic practice.

Discover the archive of the Women's Art Register, Australia's living archive of women's art practice. As we reflect on how communities have harnessed their collective powers of participation and action as a strategy for empowerment, our collective powers of editing Wikipedia will amplify the voices of Australian women artists.

The Women’s Art Register team is proud to be sharing our unique archive and community with the world this month, via the 112th CAA Annual Conference. The CAA advances the highest standards of instruction, knowledge and practice in the visual arts to stimulate intellectual curiosity and advance skills that enrich the individual and society.

We’re excited to announce that EOIs for the Women’s Art Register X Seventh Artist Residency are now open! Artists, as well as non-traditional researchers, are encouraged to apply. The resident will receive a stipend of $1,500, as well as guidance from both W.A.R. and Seventh.

In August, the Women’s Art Register bid a fond farewell to Danielle McCarthy and Christina Turner from the Committee and their respective positions of Convenor and Secretary. While we are extremely sad to be losing the passion, leadership and talent they bought to the team, we wish them both the very best with their new projects and endeavours! We can’t thank them enough for their incredible contributions over many years.

Drop into Community Hall, part of Melbourne Now, for SAVE AS: a zine-making workshop with the Women’s Art Register. In the spirit of our Leaving Your Legacy program and community-led memory making, we encourage you to use the zine format to express and save your own story/thoughts/doodles etc. The zine can then be deposited into the W.A.R. Archive, or taken home for your own collection.

Discover the archive of the Women's Art Register, Australia's living archive of women's art practice. As we reflect on how communities have harnessed their collective powers of participation and action as a strategy for empowerment, our collective powers of editing Wikipedia will amplify the voices of Australian women artists.

Women’s Art Register Secretary Caroline Phillips recently spoke on the Adrianne Wadewitz Panel at the World of Wikipedia 2022 (WOW2022) conference Diversity, Diaspora and Digitality: The Worlds of Wikimedia and Beyond at the University of Sydney.

This year we are saddened to have seen two W.A.R. Life Members and legends pass away, and we would like to acknowledge the work and life of both Pat Hillcoat and Jan Delaney.

The Leaving Your Legacy: A Guide for Australian Artists forum was a one day program of presentations and accompanying Advice Hub, designed to help artists navigate the complexities of estate planning. Leading industry specialists presented comprehensive information on tax, law, archiving and conservation.

As a fitting farewell to the George Paton Gallery in its current location, the Women’s Art Register took part in When you think about feminism, what do you think? George Paton Gallery, Feminisms 1975–2022. The show, curated by Sandie Bridie and Emma Shaw, with Caroline Phillips, mapped 50 years of feminist exhibitions and projects in the gallery.

The Leaving Your Legacy forum is a one day program of presentations and accompanying Advice Hub, designed to take you through the complexities of estate planning for artists. Comprehensive information on tax, law, archiving and conservation will be presented by leading industry specialists.

We are thrilled to be taking part in When you think about feminism, what do you think? George Paton Gallery, Feminisms 1975–2022. The show will map 50 years of feminist exhibitions and projects in the gallery.

Archiving Care is a participatory, process-based sculptural work led by artists Claire Field and Caroline Phillips. Participants are invited to consider what acts of care they have recently given or received, and to then share these acts in a material form that contributes to a growing sculptural archive and accompanying digital database.

Join us at the Festival of Women, where you’ll find choirs, artisans, performers, educational institutions, health care organisations, not-for-profits and individuals connecting and collaborating on the sisterhood canvas.

Another fantastic International Women's Day spent writing women artists from our collection into history on Wikipedia. Our IWD Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was hosted this year by the Richmond branch of Yarra Libraries on Saturday 12 March.

We’ll be joining Melbourne Art Library for the final discussion in their Distribution Series, part of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s (ACCA’s) Who’s Afraid of Public Space? program. The series explores experimental modes of sharing information and the values of the public library.

We're excited to be participating in the Festival of Women on 26 March 2022. The inclusive festival celebrates the rich diversity of women on the North Richmond Estate, Melbourne, and in the wider community. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the work of organisations, groups and individuals that support women and gender diverse people.

The second session of our Art Text Book Group is coming up in December. If you missed the first one, not to worry—this session will be exploring a new set of texts. The reading group aims to jumpstart the thinking around decolonising our readings, to be able to have a broader and nuanced understanding of the challenges ahead in presenting and positioning the Women's Art Register archive.

Common Threads will see the Women’s Art Register revisit its rich feminist archive through the critical lens of decolonising and with a future vision of inclusivity.