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.

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.

Michael Haslam, born Bolton, Lancashire 1947, has lived near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire since 1970. Publications include Continual Song (Open Township 1986), A Whole Bauble (Carcanet 1995), The Music Laid Her Songs in Language (Arc 2001), A Sinner Saved by Grace (Arc 2005) and Mid Life  (Shearsman 2007).

Website www.continualesong.com.

 

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