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Susan Cohn

Susan Cohn has been Director of Melbourne’s Workshop 3000 since 1980. Trained in gold and silversmithing, she works across the art-craft-&8232;design divide and is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney. She also has a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art Theory

Martin Edmond

Martin Edmond is a Sydney-based writer, the author of a dozen books, including The Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition (East Street, 2009) and the forthcoming Dark Night: Endless Yet Never, about the disappearance of artist Colin McCahon in Sydney during the 1984 Biennale

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His most recent novel is Wanting (Knopf, 2008).

Rachel Kent

Rachel Kent is Senior Curator at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). She has worked with leading Australian and international artists and was the curator of the MCA survey exhibition ‘Yinka Shonibare MBE’, which toured to New York and Washington D.C. in 2009-10. She writes extensively on contemporary practice and speaks at diverse public events.

Ngahiraka Mason

Ngahiraka Mason was born and raised in Te Urewera where her formative experiences shaped her life interests. A trained fine artist and art historian, since 1999 she has been a curator at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, where her first exhibition was ‘Urewera Mural: Colin McCahon’. Her curatorial interests relate strongly to old knowledge and new understandings within Indigenous sites of knowledge to generate awareness of the value of culture

Noel McKenna

Noel McKenna was born in Brisbane in 1956 and says: ‘It is now too late to change my habits so I will keep on contributing to the art world.’ He is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney; Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide; Heiser Gallery, Brisbane; and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Laura Murray Cree

Laura Murray Cree is an independent writer and editor. She has extensive experience in contemporary visual art and has held senior editorial positions at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, formerly Sherman Galleries (2003–08); Art &Australia (1997-2003; 1983-85); State of the Arts, Limelight (2003-04); and the (then) Australian National Gallery, Canberra (1980-82).

Lisa Radford

Lisa Radford is an artist and writer who teaches in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. She has exhibited in Australia and overseas, is a member of TCB art inc. and has contributed texts most recently to the catalogue for the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. She also recently co-authored with Jarrod Rawlins a book on Jon Campbell

Jarrod Rawlins

Jarrod Rawlins is Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. He has recently co-authored (with Lisa Radford) a monograph on Australian artist Jon Campbell and is now working on a book of interviews and critical essays on various social, political and aesthetic concerns. In his other life he is the owner and Director of Uplands Gallery in Melbourne

Elina Spilia

Elina Spilia is an arts writer and art historian specialising in Indigenous art. She has lectured in Art History and Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, undertaken international fellowships and conducted numerous research, writing and film projects with Indigenous communities