Mark Amery has worked as an art critic, writer, editor and broadcaster for many years across the arts and media. He is also an art consultant, coeditor of New Zealand online magazine The Spinoff’s art section and codirector of Wellington’s public art programme Letting Space.
Judith Blackall is an Australian arts professional with extensive experience in contemporary art through her work as a curator, exhibition manager and delivering programs.
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.
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.
Tracy Cooper-Lavery is gallery director at HOTA, Queensland. She has worked in the regional art museum sector for more than twenty years including as director, Rockhampton Art Gallery and in curatorial positions at Bendigo Art Gallery and Gold Coast City Gallery.
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.
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 The Guardian Australia edition.
Con Gerakaris earned a Master of Art Curating in 2016 at The University of Sydney and has published articles for 4A Papers, un. extended and Runway Conversations. He is currently assistant curator at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Samuel Hartnett is a photographer based in Auckland.
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 is a Wellington-based art writer and curator interested in the effects of curatorial practice and the place of visitor experience in art exhibitions. Lucy is currently studying towards a Masters in Museum and Heritage Practice.
Joanna Kitto is associate curator at the Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, and co-editor of fine print magazine, in Adelaide.
Russell Kleyn is a photographer based in Wellington, New Zealand.
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.
Luke Letourneau is a writer and curator working in Sydney. He is currently coordinator at Kudos Gallery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Sydney. 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.
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.
Zan Wimberley is a photographer who works in the arts, undertaking exhibition, portrait and performance documentation across Melbourne and Sydney.
Chloé Wolifson has a decade’s experience in arts administration and management. She is regularly commissioned as a writer, including exhibition essays and reviews, and has curated and co-curated exhibitions in public, artist-run and commercial spaces.
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.
