Adam Dutkiewicz is the art critic for The Independent Weekly. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of South Australia in 2001 and has worked as an art critic for the Advertiser, Business Review Weekly and Art Monthly Australia online. He was a contributing author for the monograph Franz Kempf: Thinking on paper and author of the monographs titled Mervyn Smith: Watercolours and, on his father, A Matter of Mind: An introduction to the art of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz (1918–1999).
Franz Kempf as an artist, craftsman and teacher has a deep involvement with the arts and community. He has been associated with Jacob Pins in Israel, Oscar Kaskoschka in Europe and workshops all over Europe and Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Society (London) and the Graphic Society (USA), in 2003 he was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to the arts.