Mariam Arcilla is a Sydney-based writer, producer and digital marketer. She has worked in the arts sector since 2006, and has a background in commercial galleries, arts government and artist-run projects. She currently works at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
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.
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.
Abby Cunnane is a writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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.
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.
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.
Elyse Goldfinch currently works as assistant curator at Artspace Sydney, where she recently co-curated 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS and the 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship.
Sam Hartnett is a photographer based in Auckland.
Jesse Hunniford handles photography and videography at MONA in Hobart.
John Hurrell is a New Zealand writer, artist and curator and the editor of EyeContact.
Rachel Kent is the chief curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and curator of the MCA exhibition Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form (2016).
Joanna Kitto is associate curator at the Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, and co-editor of fine print magazine, in Adelaide.
Luke Letourneau is a writer and curator working in Sydney. He is currently coordinator at Kudos Gallery.
Kirsten Lyttle is a Melbourne based multi-media artist of Māori descent. She currently teaches in Critical Art and Theory at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.
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.
John McPhee is a Sydney 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.
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 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.
Lisa Slade currently works as assistant director at Art Gallery of South Australia.
Mikala Tai is a curator, writer and academic based in Sydney. She is the incoming Head of Visual Arts for the Australia Council for the Arts.
Zan Wimberley is a photographer who works in the arts, photographing art documentation, portraits and performance across Melbourne and Sydney.
Coen Young is a Sydney-based artist.
