Dr Jenny Aland PSM is an Adelaide-based visual arts educator, historical researcher and writer. With a background of more than forty years in secondary and tertiary visual arts education, Jenny has authored, co-authored (Heinemann: Australian Artlook, Art Connections 1 & 2) and edited numerous publications that focus on teaching visual arts in artistic, social and cultural contexts.

Jenny Aland has a PhD from the University of South Australia, and a Masters in Education from the University of Canberra. She has Bachelor degrees in Education and Fine Arts (Painting), the latter gained from the South Australian School of Art in 1974 when the school was located at its Stanley Street, North Adelaide campus. In 2003, she was awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) for outstanding services to arts education curriculum. Dr Aland is now an Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA, where she worked closely with the Friends of the South Australian School of Art Inc. on the development of this publication.

Heather Robinson is a writer and researcher specialising in the cultural history of the twentieth century. She is also a creative producer with thirty years of experience across the Australian GLAM sector and public service. In 2020, Robinson completed a PhD at Flinders University, exploring the creative industries policy impacts on cultural institutions and their communities. She is an Honorary Research Associate of Flinders University and the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, an avid reader, Darwinian gardener, and passionate motorcyclist.

Jana Anvari assisted with the writing of I Was the Daughter They Stole.

Eileen Cummings is the author of I Was the Daughter They Stole.

Oswald Pryor was born at Moonta in 1881, and worked in the mines from the age of thirteen, until 1923 when the mines closed.

Christopher Race published short stories in the 1980s before taking a BA degree at The University of Melbourne. His career has been that of an editor and writer, working in London as a copywriter before returning to Melbourne and working as Editorial Manager for the Australian internet search engine, LookSmart Intl.

The History Council of South Australia (HCSA), founded 2003, was formally launched in April 2004 as an independent body to bring together the many organisations and individuals either working on history in South Australia, or working on the history of South Australia.

Anne Brennan received her jewellery training at Jakob Kramer College in Leeds in the United Kingdom. She and Catherine Truman shared a small workshop in Mitcham for a time, before co-founding Gray Street Workshop with Sue Lorraine in 1985.

While working at Gray Street she also began to write about the visual arts, craft and design, an interest that eventually led to the offer of a temporary teaching position in the Art Theory Workshop at Canberra School of Art (now Australian National Uuniversity School of Art and Design) and she left Gray Street in 1990.

Dr Samah Jabr, a consultant psychiatrist practicing in Palestine, serving communities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, is Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health. She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University in Washington DC.

Nicole Clift is a South Australian visual artist and writer. Nicole is also one half of the collaborative duo Tandem Projects with Rotterdam-based artist Inneke Taal.

James Tylor is an Australian multidisciplinary artist and writer. His research, writing, and artistic practice focus on Kaurna Indigenous culture from the Adelaide Plains region of South Australia and, more broadly, European colonial history in Southern Australia. James works and lives in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory.

Elle Freak is the Associate Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarntanya/Adelaide. She has contributed to a range of exhibitions and publications on Australian art, and most recently co-authored the publication and co-curated the exhibition Dangerously Modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890-1940 (2025).

Joshua Forkert is an Associate Editor on the Manual of the Practice, Procedure and Usage of the South Australian House of Assembly.

David Pegram is an Associate Editor on the Manual of the Practice, Procedure and Usage of the South Australian House of Assembly.