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Pedro De Almeida

Pedro De Almeida is Program Co-ordinator at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, and a freelance writer.

Anthony Bond

Anthony Bond OAM is Assistant Director, Curatorial and Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Abby Cunnane

Abby Cunnane is Assistant Curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. She has previously tutored in the Art History Department at Victoria University of Wellington, and co-published a textbook on writing about visual art, Saying What You See (Pearsons, 2009). She continues to write and review for a range of publications and media alongside her curatorial projects.

Jaynie Anderson

Jaynie Anderson is Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne and President of the International Committee of the History of Art. Her most recent book is The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art  (2011). She is advisor to the National Gallery of Australia on their exhibition ‘Renaissance’ that opens in December.

Natasha Bullock

Natasha Bullock is Curator, Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and co-curator (with Alexie Glass-Kantor) of the 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Fae Brauer

Fae Brauer is Research Professor for Visual Art Theory, School of Architecture and Visual Arts at the University of East London and Associate Professor in Art History and Cultural Theory at The University of New South Wales’ College of Fine Arts. Her book, Modern Art’s Centre: The Paris Salons and the French ‘Civilizing Mission is due to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2011

Adam Jasper

Adam Jasper is a Sydney-based writer who has written previously for frieze, Cabinet and Vice, among other publications.

Christopher Dean

Christopher Dean is a Sydney-based artist, who has exhibited widely throughout Sydney as well as in Los Angeles and New York. He is also a writer, curator and lecturer and recently achieve his PhD from the University of New South Wales’ College of Fine Arts. His works are in the collection of Artbank, Blacktown City, Casula Powerhouse, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Macquarie University, and the National Gallery of Australia as well as numerous private collections.

Wystan Curnow

Wystan Curnow is Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of Auckland. His selected critical writings will be published by the Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art and Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery in 2012.

Blair French

Blair French is Executive Director of Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, and Curatorial Convener for the 6th SCAPE: Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space. His numerous curatorial undertakings include recent solo projects with Ho Tzu Nyen, Fiona McGregor and Mischa Kuball (all 2011) and Paul Saint (2010) and a group exhibition in late 2011 titled ‘Nothing Like Performance’. With Andreas Beitin of ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, he is currently co-editing a reader accompanying Mischa Kuball’s Platon’s Mirror project to be published by Verlag Walther Konig.

Mark Feary

Mark Feary is Curator at Artspace, Sydney, and an independent curator and writer. He was previously Program Coordinator at West Space, Melbourne (2006–2009), Curator at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2009–2010) and a lecturer within the School of Art, RMIT University (2009–2011). He is also Co–director (with Christopher Hanrahan) of the project space db in Surry Hills. 

Michael Fitzgerald

Michael Fitzgerald is Managing Editor of Art &Australia. From 1997 until 2007 he was arts editor of the South Pacific edition of Time magazine.

Kelly Fliedner

Kelly Fliedner is an emerging writer and curator. She is currently the Program Coordinator of West Space, Melbourne.

Christine France

Christine France is an independent curator and writer. A former tutor in contemporary art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, she has curated exhibitions for regional galleries and worked as a critic and art writer. She is currently researching the former Notanda Gallery and bookshop in Rowe Street, Sydney.

Sasha Grishin

Sasha Grishin is the Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University, Canberra, and works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and in 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to Australian art and art history. Presently he is completing a commissioned 250,000 word history of Australian art.

Lisa Havilah

Lisa Havilah was the director of Campbelltown Arts Centre from 2005 to 2010 and has recently been appointed Director of CarriageWorks, Sydney. Lisa specialises in the intersection between contemporary art and community engagement. Curatorial projects have included ‘Edge of Elsewhere’ (2010–12), a three-year project produced for Sydney Festival that commissions artists from Australia, Asia and the Pacific to develop new work in partnership with suburban communities

Eleanor Heartney

Eleanor Heartney is a New York-based art writer. She is the author of many articles and books about contemporary art including Phaidon’s Art &Today (2008).

Freya Herring

Freya Herring is a writer and curator currently living in Sydney. She completed her Masters in avant-garde and Duchampian studies at the University of Glasgow in 2008 after assisting with the Victoria &Albert Museum’s major exhibition of 2007, ‘Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design’

Summar Hipworth

Summar Hipworth is the Program Manager for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. She graduated from the University of London with an Honours degree in History of Art, and studied Arts Management under curator Lisa Le Feurve. She has worked for important art institutions such as Tate Modern and The British Museum in London, and managed the studios and projects for internationally renowned artists Chris Ofili and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes is Assistant Curator at Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, and co-editor of the newly launched Discipline magazine.

Craig Judd

Craig Judd is an independent arts writer, educator and curator. At present he is the curator of Detached Cultural Organisation, Hobart.

Amy Karafin

Amy Karafin is an artist and freelance writer based in New York, where she began her career at ARTnews magazine. Her work revolves around travel, art, and all things transcendent. This is her fourth piece for Art &Australia.

Joanna Langford

Joanna Langford is an artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand, including solo exhibitions at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2009) and Wellington City Gallery (2008) and major commission projects for Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui (2009), Auckland Art Fair (2009), Christchurch Art Gallery (2010) and Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt (2010), as well as internationally including at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2009). She was Olivia Spencer-Bower Fellow (Christchurch) in 2007 and Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin in 2010. She is represented by Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.

Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is an independent curator and PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne. She is the Visual Art Curator for the Adelaide Festival 2012 and most recently was appointed Director of the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville.

Sheridan Palmer

Sheridan Palmer is currently engaged in writing a biography of the late Bernard Smith. She is an independent art curator and cultural historian working in Melbourne, where she is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Dylan Rainforth

Dylan Rainforth is a freelance critic and regular contributor to The Age. He is a committee member for the Melbourne Cinemateque and an alumnus of the Gertrude Contemporary Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program.

Susan Reid

Susan Reid is a Melbourne-based arts writer and cultural commentator with interests in the arts, design and law. Her career as a creative producer, curator and regional arts agency executive has spanned different contexts from Sydney to Cairns.

Andreas Reiter Raabe

Andreas Reiter Raabe is an artist based in Vienna. Since 1995 he has conducted and published a number of interviews with artists, including Daniel Buren, Tacita Dean and Andreas Gursky. In Australia he is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.

Damian Smith

Damian Smith is the Director of Words For Art, an international consultancy specialising in contemporary art and culture. He is a curator for the Beijing-based organisation China Art Projects, and his interests include contemporary art in China, Tibet and Australia, digital and new media art, and Australian modernism. He is a former vice-president of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria and has been a guest curator at the National Gallery of Victoria and Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Marian Tubbs

Marian Tubbs is a Sydney-based artist and writer. She is a casual lecturer in the School of Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where she is also undertaking a practice-led PhD on experimental art, Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze.

Christian Viveros Faune

Christian Viveros-Fauné is a New York based critic and curator. He was named inaugural Critic-in-Residence at the Bronx Museum for 2010–11, and writes the ‘Free Lance’ column for ArtReview magazine and art criticism for The Village Voice. His most recent curatorials include ‘Silencio para 5’ at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile, and ‘Dublin Contemporary 2011’, Ireland’s first large-scale global exhibition of contemporary art. A collection of his criticism is forthcoming in Spanish from Metales Pesados, S.A.

Souchou Yao

Souchou Yao is a writer and anthropologist based in the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney. His books include Confucian Capitalism (2002) and Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess (2007). He has written extensively on Chinese contemporary art, notably the work of Xu Bing.