Lucinda Bennett is a writer and editor based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). She holds an MA (First Class) in Art History from The University of Auckland, where she was also part of the curatorial team at Window. In 2017, Lucinda was the CNZ Curatorial Intern in Contemporary Art at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Sophia Cai is a curator and arts writer based in Melbourne. She is particularly interested in Asian art history, the intersection between contemporary art and craft, as well as feminist methodologies and community-based practices.
Tracey Clement recently completed a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts. A former Sydney Morning Herald art critic, she writes for several Australian and international magazines and is currently the online editor for Art Guide.
Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar woman who writes fiction, essays and poetry while (mostly) travelling around the continent now called Australia in a ragged caravan towed by an ancient troopy.
Edward Colless teaches Critical and Theoretical Studies at the VCA, University of Melbourne, and is editor of Art+Australia and A+a Publishing.
Nick De Lorenzo is a Sydney-based photographer.
Briony Downes studied Art History at Oxford University and Australian Aboriginal Art at Curtin University. She lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania and has worked in the arts for 20 years as a writer and art theory tutor.
Micheal Do is a curator and writer. His exhibition Soft Core, developed for Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, is currently touring 12 regional and rural galleries throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Andrew Frost is an art critic, broadcaster and lecturer. Since 2004 he has been the editor of theartlife.com.au and since 2013 an art critic for Guardian Australia.
Sue Gardiner has been an art writer since 1999. She is a Trustee of the Chartwell Trust and was co-director of the Save Our Gallery campaign, which aimed to restore and protect the public funding of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in 2017–18. Sue was recently made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the arts.
Sebastian Goldspink is a Sydney-based curator and founder and director of artist-run space ALASKA projects. He is currently the gallery coordinator for the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf opening in 2021 and was recently announced as the curator for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial.
Alexander (Sasha) Grishin is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator.
Victoria Hynes is a freelance arts writer based in Sydney. She is a former arts journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald and the former deputy editor of Australian Art Review.
Courtney Kidd has written for numerous publications including Artist Profile, Art Monthly Australasia, Art + Australia and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is also an art consultant with Artbank.
Joanna Kitto is associate curator at the Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, and co-editor of fine print magazine, in Adelaide.
Chloe Lane earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Florida in 2017. A New Zealander living in the USA, she is the founding publisher and editor of HUE+CRY PRESS.
Jacquie Manning is a Sydney-based photographer.
Louise Martin-Chew has been writing about the visual arts for 25 years. She completed a doctorate at the University of Queensland in 2019, and remains an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland.
John McDonald is art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, a post he has held for almost 30 years. He has written for many Australian and international publications, worked as an editor and publisher; and lectured at colleges and galleries around the country. He was Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia from 1999-2000.
Helen McKenzie conducts international art tours for Art Collector readers and works out of Sydney as an art adviser and freelance writer.
Carrie Miller is an independent writer who has contributed social and cultural commentary to a range of national publications. She is also an occassional curator, including the forthcoming there’s a crack in everything at Wollongong Art Gallery in 2022.
Jacqueline Millner lectures in art history and visual culture and is currently Associate Professor, Visual Arts at La Trobe University.
Tai Mitsuji is a writer and art historian, who holds a Masters in Art History from the University of Oxford. He has taught art history at the University of Sydney and was recently awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for his PhD at Harvard University.
Daniel Mudie Cunningham is the director of programs at Carriageworks. Previously, Daniel has held curatorial roles at Artbank and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery; and teaching and research positions at Western Sydney University, where he completed his PhD in cultural studies in 2004. Most recently, he curated The National 2019: New Australian Art; initiated The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship; and led the curatorial delivery of a major public art strategy tied to the redevelopment of South Eveleigh in inner-Sydney.
Andrew Nicholls has curated projects for institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Object Galleries Sydney. A practicing artist based in Perth, The Art Gallery of Western Australia staged a major solo exhibition of his work, Hyperkulturemia, in 2018–19.
Andrew Purvis is a curator, arts writer, artist and educator. He is the curator at Adelaide Central Gallery, and has previously curated exhibitions for the City of Adelaide, the Lawrence Wilson Gallery, and the Fremantle Art Centre.
Diego Ramirez’s practice employs a variety of mediums to unpack representations of otherness from the perspective of a Mexican subject. He works as an artist, writer and arts worker.
Robert Schubert has worked in Australian visual culture since the 1990s, writing extensively for numerous publications, curating the odd show and founding one of the first electronic visual arts magazines, Globe-e Art Journal, in 1995.
Russell Shakespeare is a photographer based in Brisbane.
Jamie Tsai is an art historian based in Sydney, and a lecturer in modern and contemporary art in the department of Art History and Theory at the National Art School. She has a special interest in surrealist legacies in contemporary art.
Amelia Wallin is a curator and writer with a focus on care, feminisms, and reproductive labour. Since 2019, she has been director of West Space in Melbourne, where she works collaboratively to commission and facilitate cross-disciplinary artistic programs.
Zan Wimberley is a photographer who works in the arts, photographing art documentation, portraits and performance across Melbourne and Sydney.
Andrew Wood is a New Zealand-based art writer currently writing for Art News New Zealand, Art Monthly Australasia, EyeContact and Di’van.
Coen Young is a Sydney-based artist.
