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Kate MacNeill is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne in the arts management program. She has previously worked in the government and non-government sectors in Melbourne, Darwin and London as a lawyer and policy advisor. Kate’s research interests focus on the circulation of art in the public sphere and in particular, issues of censorship and reception.

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Brook Andrew is a Melbourne based artist who works with neon, installation, photo-media, mixed-media, performance and video. Andrew challenges cultural and historical perception, using text and image to comment on local and global issues regarding race, consumerism and history. His most recent mixed-media work draw on Prussian naturalist Blandowski, who’s album of etchings (sourced from The Haddon Library, Cambridge, UK) of Australia from the 1850’s portray a wild and romantic Australia. Andrew is currently planning a solo exhibition at AAMU, Utrecht, working with international museum collections of Aboriginal shields with installation. Andrew’s work often dives into the political and social, not only challenging historical and personal conventions, but also allows for other options in regards to the ‘gaze’ and the consumer implicit activity in global issues. These themes inspire Andrew to travel locally and internationally, actively visiting museum collections and local communities to research and make new work. Blakatak: Like a Chocatak convened by Andrew, was a forum organised at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, creating rigorous debate surrounding Aboriginal art in a contemporary context.

Anthony Gardner is a critic and historian of contemporary art. His texts have appeared in journals such as Artforum (United States), A Prior (Belgium, with Charles Green), Reading Room (New Zealand), Art and Australia, as well as catalogues for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and many other venues. He has contributed to numerous anthologies on contemporary art history and aesthetics, including the critical readers for the 2006 and 2008 Biennales of Sydney (published through Artspace, Sydney), Crossing Cultures (Melbourne University Press) and the forthcoming Cambridge Guide to Australian Art (Cambridge University Press). He is also a member of the editorial advisory board for Broadsheet and un Magazine, and has been invited to present papers at conferences in the United States, as well as Auckland, Bucharest and Oxford Universities, and in venues throughout Australia.

Sarah Bond is the Manager of the Visual Arts Program at Asialink. Responsible for the development, management and touring of the Exhibition Program, Sarah has worked in the visual arts, crafts and museum sector for over a decade, including six years as the Exhibition Manager at Craft Victoria. Sarah is a regular contributor to contemporary Australian art and craft magazines and journals and has curated various exhibitions including; In the bag (Melbourne Fashion Festival 2001); Look See: five contemporary painters (Monash University Museum of Art 2001); The dead are never lonely: Louiseann Zahra (Craft Victoria 2003); A Ragged Edge (Craft Victoria 2005); run artist run (Asialink 2006) and Under my Skin (Asialink 2008).

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Why Gather? Symposium, Melbourne (2008)

Image Credit: Vasilios Devletoglou, 2008

Zara Stanhope is Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, where she is responsible for managing the exhibition, education and public programs, the museum collection and its development. Recently curated exhibitions and projects include: The world in painting (Heide MoMA and Touring regionally, 2007-09), Perfect for every occasion: photography today (Heide, 2007), NOURISH, Contemporary craft and design, (Contemporary Art Space Tasmania, 2007). Recent independent projects have also included: TRANS VERSA Artists from Australia and New Zealand, as part of The South Project, in Santiago, Chile and We know who we are, Octopus 6 Gertrude Contemporary Artists Spaces, Melbourne (2006). Zara works to foster contemporary art practice and extend its audiences, through the presentation and interpretation of visual art. She regularly contributes to catalogues at Heide Museum, public galleries and artist run initiatives, as well as art journals such as Photofile, Artlink and Art Monthly, and is a member of the Editorial Board of UN magazine (2005-8). Previous positions include: inaugural Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1999-2002) and Assistant Director, Monash University Gallery, now Monash University Museum of Art (1993-1999).