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Anthony Bond

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

Rebecca Coates

Rebecca Coates is an independent curator, writer and lecturer. She is also Associate Curator at Melbourne's Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, where she was previously curator from 2002-07.

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'.

José Borghino

José Borghino works for the Australian Publishers Association. He also teaches Literary Journalism at the University of Sydney and reviews regularly for The Australian. He was the editor of New Matilda (www.newmatilda.com).

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.

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.

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.

Anthony Gardner

Anthony Gardner is a writer, lecturer and editor currently based in London.

Kelly Gellatly

Kelly Gellatly is Curator of Contemporary Art (Australian and International) at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne. Since taking up the role in 2003, she has curated numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, the NGV's major surveys of the work of Rosalie Gascoigne (2008) and Gordon Bennett (2007). She has also held curatorial positions at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Nicholas Croggon

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

Craig Judd

Craig Judd is the former director/CEO of Wollongong City Gallery and senior curator of art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. For Wollongong he prepared exhibitions on ceramicist Alan Peascod, photographer Anne Ferran and performance group The Kingpins.

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).

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.

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.

John McPhee

John McPhee was the founding curator of Australian Decorative Arts and later senior curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Deputy Director at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, from 1992 to 1996.

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.

Simon Pierse

Simon Pierse is an artist and art historian based at Aberystwyth University. He is interested in British perceptions of Australian art and landscape and has written on Michael Andrew's paintings of Uluru, Antony Gormley's 2003 project Inside Australia and Sidney Nolan's final years on the borders of Wales. His book An Antipodean Summer, a study of Australian artists in London, is due out in 2010.

Peter Pinson

Peter Pinson is an Emeritus Professor from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, and currently directs the Peter Pinson Gallery in Woollahra, Sydney.

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.

Morgan Thomas

Morgan Thomas teaches modern and contemporary art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and has also worked as an art critic, editor and translator. She recently contributed to the exhibition catalogue Rothko (Tate, 2008) and to the book Crossing Cultures (University of Melbourne Press, 2009).

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'.