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Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is an independent Australian curator and writer. A former curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and director of creative development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, more recently Lynn has been curator of ‘turbulence’, the 3rd Auckland Triennial, and author of Julie Rrap: Body Double (2007).

Alexie Glass

Alexie Glass, Director of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (GCAS), Melbourne, has worked for over ten years as a curator, critic and arts administrator. Prior to GCAS, Alexie worked in Exhibitions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, where she was curator of the Screen Gallery for the ACMI and National Gallery of Victoria exhibition '2004: Australian Culture Now'.

Judy Annear

Judy Annear is Senior Curator Photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. She was co-curator (with Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais) of the exhibition ‘Man Ray’ which toured Australia in 2004, and curator of the 2005 exhibition ‘Bill Henson’ which surveyed thirty years of this major Australian artist’s work. In 2007 co-curated (with Virginia Heckert) a monographic exhibition of the photographs of August Sander from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. She is currently working on a major exhibition of Alfred Steiglitz’ modernism for 2010.

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.

Rhana Devenport

Rhana Devenport is Director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. She curates and writes and has previously worked with the Asia-Pacific Triennial, the Sydney Festival and the Biennale of Sydney. Recent projects include ‘Break: Construct’, ‘New Nature’, ‘Paintings from Remote Communities’, ‘Dateline’, ‘Bill Culbert: Groundworks’, ‘Judith Wright: Conversations’ for the Drill Hall, ‘Peter Robinson: Snow Ball Blind Time’ and ‘Lee Mingwei: Uncommon Senses’ currently at the Govett-Brewster.

David Elliott

David Elliott is a curator based in London, Berlin and Istanbul, and the former director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. He was recently appointed Artistic Director for the 17th Biennale of Sydney, to take place in 2010.

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.

Wendy Walker

Wendy Walker is the inaugural Samstag writer-in-residence at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, where she is researching the lives of Anne and Gordon Samstag. She is the author of Deborah Paauwe: Beautiful Games (2004). In 2006 she was a curator for 'Collect' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She writes for a number of publications including the Australian newspaper and Contemporary.

Blair French

Blair French is Executive Director, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney. Recent undertakings include the exhibition 'Event: New Moving Image Work' (2009) and the book Twelve Australian Photo Artists (2009, with Daniel Palmer). He wrote the major essay to the book accompanying Shaun Gladwell's Australian Pavilion project at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Juliana Engberg

Juliana Engberg is Artistic Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. She was visual arts curator for the Melbourne International Arts Festival from 2000 to 2005, and more recently was senior curatorial adviser for the Australian presentations at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Richard Bell

Richard Bell is an Aboriginal man living and working in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

D.J.Huppatz

D. J. Huppatz is the Program Coordinator of the Interior Design program at Swinburne University’s Faculty of Design in Melbourne. His teaching, research and writing focus predominantly on design and architectural history, particularly modernism in Asian design and contemporary interiors. He maintains a regular blog, Critical Cities, for extended discussions of contemporary design, architecture and literature.

Clarissa Chikiamco

Clarissa Chikiamco is a Manila-based art writer and curator currently developing her career in Melbourne. In extension of the Gertrude Emerging Art Writers Program she is undertaking a Masters of Art Curatorship, at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this Clarissa has written art reviews for the Philippine Star, and actively involved herself in the contemporary art scene of Manila; see http://writelisawrite.blogspot.com

Harold Grieves

Harold Grieves contributes a regular column covering Christchurch's contemporary art scene for Art New Zealand as well as being a regular reviewer for Christchurch's local newspaper, The Press. He also writes cultural criticism for a variety of New Zealand's small-press publishers, notably, White Fungus, The National Grid, The Canary Annual and Public Good.

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.

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.

Chris Healy

Chris Healy teaches cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is Forgetting Aborigines (2008).

Justin Paton

Justin Paton is Senior Curator at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in Christchurch, New Zealand, where his projects this year have included 'Daniel Crooks:Everywhere Instantly', the 'Outer Spaces' program of public art, and 'Travelling Light: An Exhibition for Matariki'. His book 'How to Look at a Painting' (2006) has just been released in a hardback collector's edition.

Barry Schwabsky

Barrry Schwabsky is an American art critic and poet living in London. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (1997) and Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (2002).