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Bianca Acimovic is an experienced arts administrator with an extensive history of working across both public and private sectors, focussing on capital infrastructure development for arts, culture, and public spaces. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of Southern Queensland, a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Southern Queensland, and a Master of Applied Innovation and Entrepreneurship. from the University of Adelaide. Acimovic was Gallery Director of Rockhampton Art Gallery from 2016 to 2021.

Dr Christina Chau holds a PhD in Art History and Media Studies from the University of Western Australia, is currently a lecturer at the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University, and is the lecturer and course coordinator for Honours in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin. In 2017 Chau published her first book titled Movement, Time Technology and Art, and was also a television presenter on ABC’s Art Bites: Shock Art, which looked at controversial art for Australian audiences.

Clara Che Wei Peh graduated in 2019 from Yale-NUS College, Singapore, with a BA (Hons) in Economics and a minor in Art History, before completing a Master’s in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She was an Ambassador for the Singapore Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Currently, she lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts. Her research interests lie in cyberfeminism, new media and the art market.

Dr Edward Colless teaches Critical and Theoretical Studies at the VCA, University of Melbourne, and is editor of Art+Australia and A+a Publishing.

Briony Downes studied Art History at Oxford University and Australian Aboriginal Art at Curtin University, Perth. She lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania and has worked in the arts for 20 years as a writer and art theory tutor.

Nick De Lorenzo is a Sydney-based photographer.

Julie Ewington is a writer, curator and broadcaster based in Sydney. An authority on contemporary Australian art, she has held esteemed academic and curatorial positions.

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.

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.

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.

Russell Shakespeare is a photographer based in Brisbane.

Melody Willis is a Sydney-based writer, lecturer and artist.

Amelia Winata holds an honours degree in Art History from the University of Melbourne and was a recipient of the 2015 Gertrude Contemporary Emerging Writers Program. Today she is a Melbourne-based writer and curator and has written for Art Monthly Australia, Dissect, and Art Collector.

Sharne Wolff is an arts writer and critic. Since 2010, she’s written on art for numerous publications including Art Collector, Art Guide, Art Monthly Australia, The Guardian Australia, Imprint and Australian Ceramics Journal.

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.

Sasha Grishin has authored more than 25 books on art and has served as the art critic for The Canberra Times for 40 years. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra; Guest Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Australian Government, Department of Communications and the Arts Cultural Gifts Program approved valuer.

Jo Higgins consults on peer-led gallery education practices and arts partnership projects. She is also a writer, editor, researcher and project manager.

Lucy Jackson works out of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand as an art writer. She has worked at City Gallery Wellington, McLeavey Gallery and Te Papa, and writes for various publications and galleries.

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.

Danny Lacy has had an active curatorial practice for 20 years across a wide range of Australian artist-run and contemporary art spaces. He is currently Artistic Director and Senior Curator at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria.

Luke Létourneau is a writer and curator based in Sydney. Since 2018 he has worked as Curator at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.

Dr. Kirsten Lyttle is a Melbourne based multimedia artist of Māori descent. She currently teaches in Critical Art and Theory at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.

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.

Elke Meitzel is a Melbourne-based photographer.

Helen McKenzie conducts international art tours for Art Collector readers and works out of Sydney as an art adviser and freelance writer.