CONTRIBUTORS
Mariam Arcilla is a Sydney-based writer, gallery manager, producer and digital marketer. Originally from the Gold Coast, she has worked in the arts and culture sector for 12 years, and has a background in commercial galleries, arts government and artist-run projects.
Bonny Beattie is a photographer and stylist based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Lucinda Bennett 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, she was the CNZ Curatorial Intern in Contemporary Art at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Dr Rex Butler’s research interests include Australian art and art criticism, post-war American art and critical theory. He is an art historian and professor at Monash University in Melbourne.
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.
Dr Edward Colless teaches Critical and Theoretical Studies at the VCA, University of Melbourne, and is editor of Art+Australia and A+a Publishing.
Ineke Dane is a curator currently based in Brisbane, where she works with the international studio Urban Art Projects. Dane is interested in overlaps between architecture, politics, society and the environment, and a progression towards seamlessness between art and life.
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.
Dr 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.
Kirstin Gollings is a Melbourne-based photographer.
Courtney Kidd is a Sydney-based art writer and art consultant with Artbank.
Louise Martin-Chew has been writing about the visual arts for 25 years. She also works as a public art consultant and is currently finalising a doctorate at the University of Queensland.
Emil McAvoy’s practice examines histories and concepts of the cultural roles of artists. Based in Auckland, he works as an artist, lecturer, art writer and gallery and museum professional.
Helen McKenzie conducts international art tours for Art Collector subscribers and readers and works out of Sydney as an art advisor and freelance writer.
John McPhee is a Sydney-based art historian. He was the senior curator of Australian art at the National Gallery of Australia from 1986 to 1992, and deputy director at the National Gallery of Victoria from 1992 to 1996. He is the author of books on the colonial painters John Glover and Joseph Lycett and has curated numerous exhibitions.
Carrie Miller is a freelance writer and curator who has contributed to Art Collector for 15 years.She holds a BA (Fine Arts and Philosophy) and a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Sydney. Her curatorial projects include Transmission at Campbelltown Arts Centre and Exhibit A at The Lock Up, Newcastle.
Joanna Mendelssohn was one of the first graduates in Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, studying under Bernard Smith and Donald Brook. She is an honorary principal fellow at the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne. Her most recent book is an examination of how Australian art and its exhibitions have helped shape our understanding of both our past and ourselves.
Tai Mitsuji is a writer and art historian, who holds a Masters (with Distinction) 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 2018/2019.
Damien O’Mara is a Brisbane-based photographer.
Jane O’Sullivan has written for publications including the Australian Financial Review, Artnet, Art Guide and Ocula. She is a former editor of Art Collector.
Isobel Parker Philip is curator of photographs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she is responsible for the photography collection and contributes to the wider exhibition program.
Ingrid Periz writes about art from outside Princeton, New Jersey. She is currently working on a curatorial project with New York-based artist Denise Green.
Sharne Wolff is a freelance arts journalist based near Byron Bay. Her current PhD research project focuses on the relationship between Australian contemporary art and walking.
Coen Young is a Sydney-based artist.
