Nic Brown is Collections Curator at Flinders University Museum of Art, Adelaide. She has published widely on Australian art and was editor-in-chief for the anthology Speak To Me: Conversations with the Flinders University art collections (2016), and editor of Head-To-Head: Shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture (2018). Brown co-curated the major multi-site exhibition Tjina nurna-ka, pmarra nurna-kanha, itla itla nurna-kanha: Our family, our country, our legacy, in collaboration with Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, at the Art Gallery of South Australia and FUMA, for Tarnanthi 2019. She was curatorial manager for the FUMA exhibitions Patrick Pound: Thinking through things (2016) and Crystal Palace (2013), and curated Ray Harris: Ritual nature (2021) and Divinity, Death and Nature: European and Australian prints from the Flinders University Art Museum collection (2010). Her work has been supported by grants and residencies from the National Library of Australia, Gordon Darling Foundation, Arts South Australia and the British School at Rome.
Dr Jacqueline Millner is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has published widely on contemporary Australian and international art; selected books include Contemporary Art and Feminism (with Catriona Moore, Routledge, 2021), Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary outtakes (co-edited with Catriona Moore, Routledge, 2018), Fashionable Art (with Adam Geczy, Bloomsbury, 2015), and Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (with Jennifer Barrett, Ashgate, 2014). Millner has curated major exhibitions and projects at the SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, including Curating Feminism (2014), Future Feminist Archive (2015) and Femflix: Australian feminist screen culture in the 90s (2016). She leads the research project Care: feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times (2018-21) and co-convenes the research cluster Contemporary Art & Feminism. Millner has received prestigious research grants and residencies from the Australian Research Council, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW, Bundanon Trust in New South Wales, and the Cite internationale des arts, Paris.
Elspeth Pitt is Curator, Australian Art, at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, where she specialises in modern and contemporary Australian art, with a particular interest in conceptual performance and poetry practices, and has published widely in these fields. Pitt has curated major NGA exhibitions, including Know My Name: Australian women artists 1900 to now (2020, co-curator) and Mike Parr: Foreign looking (2016, co-curator), and co-edited the associated publications Know My Name and Mike Parr: Language and chaos. Other significant curatorial projects include Power & Imagination: Conceptual art 1966-1976 (2018), Alphabet / Haemorrhage Libretto (2016) and Always & Forever in Print: Contemporary Australian print culture (2015). Pitt has previously held curatorial, honorary research and sessional academic roles at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, the Australian National University, Canberra, and the Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum in London.
Barbara Hanrahan lived between Adelaide, London and Melbourne, and was one of Australia's most distinctive artists. Characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy, her works are fearlessly direct and unashamedly decorative.