Context and History of the Calleen Art Award

Next date: Saturday, 27 September 2025 | 03:00 PM to 05:30 PM

Zoe Young, On the Farm, 2020, acrylic on Belgian linen, 120 x 160cm. Winner Calleen Art Award 2020

Peter Haynes shares insights into the 49-year history of the Award.

Light refreshments served

3pm – 5.30pm, Saturday 27 September.

Free admission

Refreshments gold coin donation

ABOUT PETER HAYNES

Cowra-based Peter Haynes is an established curator, writer and visual arts historian. Since 1978 he has worked in the museum/gallery sector with occasional forays into academia. He moved to Canberra from Sydney (where he was working at the Art Gallery of New South Wales) in 1981 to take up a position of Curator at the (then) Canberra School of Art, and also acted as Head of the Art History and Theory Workshop. He has held a number of positions including Curator of the Parliament House Art Collection; Director/Curator of the Nolan Gallery; Director of ACT Museums and Galleries and University Art Curator, University of Canberra. Haynes was also Adjunct Associate Professor in Museology and Cultural Heritage in the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage also at the University of Canberra. He has lectured extensively on the visual arts and heritage, curated over 250 exhibitions, and is widely published with over 300 publications nationally and internationally. He also worked as art critic for The Canberra Times from 2014 to 2022. Peter was the author of The Calleen Collection, the 2019 publication produced to coincide with the40th anniversary of the Award. Current projects include a monograph on ceramicist Martin Halstead (due for release in late 2025), a monograph on sculptor Ron Robertson-Swann..

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_{IMAGE: Zoe Young,On the Farm, 2020, acrylic on Belgian linen, 120 x 160cm. Winner Calleen Art Award 2020.}