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Murray Bail

Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. After spending several years in Bombay and five years in London, he now lives in Sydney. His books include Homesickness, Ian Fairweather, Holden’s Performance, The Drover’s Wife and Other Stories, Eucalyptus, Camouflage, Notebooks 1970–2003 and, most recently, The Pages.

Rex Butler

Rex Butler teaches in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He is currently writing a book on Colin McCahon with Laurence Simmons entitled Practical Religion: On the Afterlife of Colin McCahon.

Joanna Capon

Joanna Capon OAM MA, is an art historian, industrial archaeologist, curator, writer and member of Art & Australia's editorial advisory board.

A.D.S. Donaldson

A. D. S. Donaldson has been a practising artist since the mid-1980s. Trained in Sydney, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen and Paris, he has recently completed his PhD on the Sydney artist Mary Webb.

Cathryn Drake

Cathryn Drake is a writer based in Rome covering art, architecture, and travel for publications such as Artforum, Metropolis, Men’s Vogue, and the Wall Street Journal. She spends the time in between bathing around the world as research for the book The Architecture of Intimacy, which will recount the history and culture of the public bath from the ancient Greco-Roman tradition.

Dinah Dysart

Dinah Dysart has published, edited and authored books, catalogues and essays on Australian art. Former editor of Art &Australia and inaugural editor of Art Asia-Pacific, she has been director of the S.H. Ervin Gallery, a trustee of the Historic Houses Trust and deputy chair of the Australia-China Council.

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.

Wes Hill

Wes Hill contributes articles to a variety of Australian and international publications. He is currently researching Jeff Koons for his PhD at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. As an artist he has practiced with Wendy Wilkins as Wilkins Hill since 2000. In 2008 they received a fellowship to work in Berlin with the artist Michael Stevenson. Most recently they have been in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, exhibiting a new video and photographic based project. The artist book Wilkins Hill: Around the Horseshoe (2004) is published by the Institute of Modern Art.

Kirk Huffman

Kirk W. Huffman was educated in social anthropology, prehistoric archaeology and ethnology at the universities of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Oxford and Cambridge. In 1991, after extensive fieldwork in Malakula, he became honorary curator at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, a position he holds today along with being Honorary Associate at the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, and Research Associate at the Australian Museum, Sydney, among other titles.

Tracey Lock-Weir

Tracey Lock-Weir is the Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She has curated numerous exhibitions and authored their accompanying books, including 'Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915-1950' of 2008, and the landmark 'Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Retrospective' of 2003 (co-curated with Vivien Johnson), and 'Visions of Adelaide: 1836-1886' (2005).

Robyn McKenzie

Robyn McKenzie is an art historian and theorist, writer and critic.

Lucienne Peiry

Lucienne Peiry is an art historian and director of the Collection de l’Art Brut, in Lausanne, since 2001. She devoted her PhD thesis to the history of this institution (L’Art Brut, Paris, Flammarion, 1997). She has written several books on Art Brut, including Nek Chand’s Outsider Art, co-authored by Philippe Lespinasse (Flammarion, 2005). She was an independent exhibition curator until 2001 and a cultural journalist at the Swiss Radio.

Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is an independent curator and writer based in Melbourne. She is curator of the forthcoming 'Double Take: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts' and the Visual Arts Curator for the 2010 Adelaide Festival.

Luke Scholes

Luke Scholes was an employee of Papunya Tula Artists between 2003-07. He has recently been working for Martumili Artists in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and in 2009 he will begin work on the 'Papunya Tula Boards' project for the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

David Teh

David Teh is a writer, curator and lecturer based in Bangkok. He recently curated ‘The More Things Change... The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival’, and is currently working on a film and video program called ‘Unreal Asia’ for the 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. He is also a Director of Chalk Horse Gallery in Sydney.

Nick Waterlow

Nick Waterlow OAM is Director of Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, and a senior lecturer in the School of Art History and Art Education at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. He has curated many exhibitions in Australia and internationally, and writes for a variety of art journals, including Art &Australia, of which he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board.

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.

Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas was in once in charge of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and then director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. He was commissioner for Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1978 when Ken Unsworth's work was presented there. He is now retired and living in Tasmania.