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Charlotte Day

Charlotte Day is Associate Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Her projects include Ricky Swallow's 'This Time Another Year' (2005) and Callum Morton's 'Valhalla' (2007), both at the Venice Biennale. She is co-curator (with Sarah Tutton) of the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

Marina Fokidis

Marina Fokidis is an independent curator and critic based in Athens, Greece. She was the commissioner of the Greek Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, and one of the curators for the 1st Tirana Biennale in 2001. From 2001-09 she was a founding member and director of Oxymoron, the first non-profit organisation in Athens to assist the production and exposure of contemporary artists.

Rob McKenzie

Rob McKenzie is an artist, writer and curator living in New York. He was co-author of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, publication The Ampersand Files: Art &Text 1981-2002 (2009), and has published a series of art fanzines under the titles Slave and Sandwich. In Australia he is represented by Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.

Francesco Stocchi

Francesco Stocchi is a curator based in Rome. He is currently the editor of the magazine Agma and since 2003 has been a regular contributor to Artforum, Domus and other specialised publications. For his last curatorial project he worked with the Austrian collective Gelitin on their first theatre spectacle, All or the just (i 120 minuti di Torino) at Teatro Reggio, Turin. His first book Cindy Sherman was published in 2007 by Mondadori/Electa.

Sarah Tutton

Sarah Tutton is Art & Australia's Contributing Editor, Melbourne. An independent curator, writer and project manager based, she is co-curator (with Charlotte Day) of the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is one of Australia's best known Indigenous authors and in 2007 her novel Carpentaria won numerous national literary awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award. She holds the position of Distinguished Fellow with the University of Western Sydney.

Edmund Capon

Edmund Capon AM, OBE, has been Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, since 1978.

Matt Coyle

Matt Coyle is an artist based in Hobart, Tasmania, whose graphic novel Worry Doll was published by the United Kingdom's Mam Tor Publishing in 2007. He is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, and Criterion Gallery, Hobart.

Brenda L. Croft

Brenda L. Croft, from the Gurindji/Mudpurra peoples of the Northern Territory is Lecturer, Indigenous Art, Culture and Design at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. She curated the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial, 'Culture Warriors', and was senior curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2002-2009).

Nicholas Croggon

Nicholas Croggon lives in Melbourne where he works at a law firm by day and as an art writer by night.

Dr Isobel Crombie

Dr Isobel Crombie has worked as a curator of photography since 1979. She began her career at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and since 1988 has been Senior Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne. She regularly curates exhibitions on the history of Australian and international photography and has published over sixty articles and books on aspects of the medium. Her most recent exhibition was 'Body Language: Contemporary Chinese photography' at the NGV.

Stephen Eastaugh

Stephen Eastaugh graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 1981. He was an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow at Mawson Station, Antarctica, from February until December 2009.

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.

Dr Peter Hill

Dr Peter Hill is an artist and writer based in Geelong and Melbourne. He has written for over thirty journals and magazines around the world and is currently compiling a selection of these into a book called Curious About Art. His book Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper won a Saltire Award in 2004, and he exhibited in the 2002 Biennale of Sydney.

Reuben Keehan

Reuben Keehan is Curator at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, and editor of Column. Recent curatorial projects include 'Publicity' (Artspace and Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 2007), 'Diorama of the City' (Tokyo Wonder Site, 2008), and 'Between Site &Space' (Artspace, 2009).

Tessa Laird

Tessa Laird is a lecturer in contextual studies at the University of Auckland. A former general manager of The Physics Room, Christchurch, she was co-founder and editor of Monica Reviews Art and LOG Illustrated and has been a regular contributor to the New Zealand Listener, along with numerous other art publications.

Andrew Maerkle

Andrew Maerkle is a freelance art writer and editor based in Tokyo. He contributes to local and international publications including the Japan Times, artforum.com and frieze. From 2005-2008 he was Deputy Editor of ArtAsiaPacific in New York, where in addition to overseeing production of the magazine and annual almanac, he organised curatorial projects such as 'Artists on Art' at the Rubin Museum of Art.

Patrick McCaughey

Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and is currently Director of the Festival of Ideas at the University of Melbourne.

Laura Murray Cree

Laura Murray Cree is an independent art writer and a former editor of Art &Australia (1997-2003).

Ian North

Ian North is an artist. He is also Adjunct Professor, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia, and in Art History, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide. He has exhibited and published widely. His latest book, Visual Animals (ed., 2007) concerns evolutionary concepts applied to art as a social phenomenon.

Hetti Perkins

Hetti Perkins is a member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities. She is the Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and co-curated the Australian Indigenous Art Commission at the Musee du quai Branly, Paris. She is working with filmmaker Warwick Thornton on the ABC documentary series Art &Soul.

Dylan Rainforth

Dylan Rainforth is a freelance critic and regular contributor to The Age; he is an assistant curator for the Melbourne Cinemateque and an alumnus of the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Emerging Writers Program.

Aaron Seeto

Aaron Seeto is Director of Gallery 4A, Sydney. Major curatorial projects include 'Edge of Elsewhere' (Gallery 4A and Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2010-12), 'News from Islands' (Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2007), and 'Primavera' (Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006).

Rachael Watts

Rachael Watts is Gallery Assistant, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, and Curatorial Assistant, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. She recently completed her Master of Arts in Art Theory and Design at Monash University, Melbourne.

Dr Souchou Yao

Dr Souchou Yao is an anthropologist who writes on the cultures and societies of South-East Asia. He is the author of Confucian Capitalism (2004) and Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess (2007). He has added contemporary China to his bookish interests, and recently completed a project entitled 'To the Chengdu Station: a travelling ethnography of China'.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1955 where he continues to live and work today. He studied politics and African studies at University of Witwatersrand and theatre in Paris. Upcoming projects include a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2009, and a production of Shostakovich's opera The Nose, set to premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 2010