Anthony Bond is currently Director Curatorial at the Art Gallery of NSW where he has been responsible for collecting International contemporary art since 1984.  His major exhibitions include; The British Show at AGNSW and touring 1984-85, the 9th Sydney Biennale Boundary Rider 1992-93, TRACE the inaugural Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary International Art 1999.  He has also curated historical exhibitions such as Body in 1997 and Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary for the National Portrait Gallery London and AGNSW Sydney 2005-6.  His most recent exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer with accompanying book was launched in London in January.   His major future project is Kurt Schwitters 2012 at AGNSW.

Stephanie Burns is an artist with a career spanning 17 years. She was previously the co-owner/director of a commercial gallery in Canberra, and is currently building a sculpture park and gallery with her husband on their property in Yass, which is due to open to the public in late 2009. Burns was the founder of The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation in 1991, and is the current editor of Art Influence.

David Cohen is art critic and contributing editor at the New York Sun, publisher of the online magazine, artcritical.com, and gallery director at the New York Studio School.  He moderates the Review Panel, the critics forum at the National Academy Museum in New York recordings of which are posted at artcritical.

Phil Day, born in Goulburn in1973, he lives in Braidwood where he teaches Art part-time to teenagers. He co-founded Finlay Press in 1997 and more recently co-founded Finlay Lloyd Publishing in 2006. Many of the books he has designed, illustrated, printed, or bound have become part of state library, university, and city council collections – including the National Library of Australia. Day believes there is something severely ill with contemporary art. His personal remedy is to enjoy the activity of drawing as an end in itself. He is currently working on his first novel.

Lian Duan studied comparative literature, visual art, and critical theory in China and in Canada for his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He taught Chinese language, literature, visual art, and culture courses at Sichuan University in China, and Carleton College, State University of New York, Williams College, among other colleges, in the United States. He presently teaches at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where he coordinates the Chinese program. In addition to writing and publishing extensively on literature and contemporary art, he also practices painting and creative writing.

Laurence Fuller, son of Peter Fuller, started collecting art at the age of thirteen. He survived an African coup when he visited his uncle’s business operation in Mauritania, then went on to graduate from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, UK. He became a Trustee of the Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation in 2007, and is the UK editor and the designer of Art Influence. Laurence recently finished a leading role as paralysed war correspondent, Peter Apps, in Memories Revisited in London. He is currently in Sydney working on Australian independent films. Please visit www.laurencefuller.com to view extracts of his works.

Peter Fuller was one of Britain’s leading art critics when he died in 1990, aged 42. Fuller had a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph and was the founding editor of Modern Painters magazine, one of the most important magazines on art in Britain. Along with such prestigious books as Art and Psychoanalysis, Peter wrote regularly for Art Monthly UK and New Society for nearly two decades. His writings are currently being read all over the world from TATE Britain to universities in China.

Eric Gelber is an artist, writer, musician, and librarian living in the North Country in upstate New York. He is Associate Editor of the online art magazine http://artcritical.com/, and maintains a blog at http://ericgelber.livejournal.com/. His writing has appeared in The New York Sun and Sculpture Magazine, and he has written catalogue essays for a number of artists working in a variety of mediums. His band "the5techniques" has recorded two albums.

Andrea Gledhill is the Curator and Programs Manager at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale, NSW.  The New England Regional Art Museum houses four collections of Australian art, including the prestigious Howard Hinton and Chandler Coventry Collections Gledhill’s career began as a writer (Good Golly Gosh, Angus and Robertson Publishers 1974), designer and illustrator in the book publishing industry. With Fine Arts (Painting) and Education degrees, she has worked as a Visual Art and English teacher and artist across Queensland, the Northern Territory and NSW.

Robin Wallace-Crabbe, a painter responsible for more than 40 solo exhibitions and with work in major public and private collections. He has had 14 books published, most concerning art crime, the balance just strange fictions. At present he is working on a suite of large charcoal drawings and some table-top polychrome sculptures. Robin is a regular reviewer for The Australian.

 

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