
Welcome to the Power Institute.
We are a Foundation based at the University of Sydney dedicated to understanding the visual world, through art and visual culture. We support research, publish texts, and organise events.
JW Power, [Untitled], c. 1938, Chau Chak Wing Museum, PW1961.347.
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Upcoming Events
Thu, 15 May 2025
3:00PM
Simone Leigh's Maternal Sentinels
Tara McDowell
Thu, 29 May 2025
11:00AM
Authenticity & Preservation Revisited: Marginalized Practices in the Islamic Manuscript Tradition
Hala Auji
Thu, 5 June 2025
11:00AM
Tending to Memory: Art, Migration, and the Politics of Labor
Panos Aprahamian, Gohar Dashti, and Hala Auji
Thu, 12 June 2025
1:00PM
In sight, out of mind
Irina Harris and Alexander Howard
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Schaeffer Fine Art Library
Thu, 22 May 2025
6:00PM
Schaeffer Fine Arts Library: Celebrating 25 Years
Tue, 1 April 2025
9:00AM
Simryn Gill: Paper Jam / Insider Trading
Simryn Gill
Tue, 1 April 2025
9:00AM
Painting from Stone Country to the Desert (1965-2012)
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Books
John Young: The History Projects (preorder)
By: Olivier Krischer
$50.00AUD
Between 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created 11 art series which he called ‘The History Projects’. This book is a critical guide to this expansive body of artworks, which explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past.
Featuring more than 400 images, and a wide variety of texts—including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist reflections, and diary pages—this book is a definitive reference for Young’s transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.
Please note that all preorders will be posted in mid April 2025
Featuring more than 400 images, and a wide variety of texts—including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist reflections, and diary pages—this book is a definitive reference for Young’s transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.
Please note that all preorders will be posted in mid April 2025
Ian Burn: Collected Writings 1966–1993
By: Ann Stephen
$49.00AUD
Ian Burn has been described as many things: an activist, a trade-unionist, a journalist, an art critic, a curator and an art historian—or, as he once described himself in a moment of self-deprecating alienation, ‘an ex-conceptual artist’. Edited by Burn’s friend, frequent collaborator and eminent art historian, Dr Ann Stephen, this volume brings together 49 pieces of Burn’s own agile and expansive writings alongside a vast collection of his artworks. The collection concludes with reflections on Burn’s life and work from prominent figures and past collaborators in the form of memorial lectures.
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