Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist, radio broadcaster and cultural critic. Currently the inaugural Professor of Indigenous Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sydney, he was previously Editor Indigenous Radio at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation managing flagship programs Awaye! and Speaking out and host of The art show on ABC Radio National.

Peta Clancy is a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people. She is a visual artist and senior lecturer of fine art at Monash University, Melbourne. Working predominantly with photography, she creates work performatively with and on Country.

Paul Daley is an author, journalist and essayist. He has written extensively about Australian history, national identity, myth-making and Indigenous cultureHis books include The leap (2025), Jesustown (2022), Canberra (2020) and Beersheba: travels through a forgotten Australian history (2017).

Deborah Edwards is former senior curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has extensively researched, exhibited and published on the work of twentieth-century Australian painters and sculptors. Her major curated exhibitions and publications include Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Margaret Preston: Art and Life; Bertram Mackennal and Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as Landscape.

Scott Elliot is assistant curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He was curator of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2026. His recent writing has been published in Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 (2025) and The National 4: Australian Art Now (2023).

Lesley Harding is artistic director at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Her writing has appeared in Art and Australia, Art Monthly Australia, Artlink and Meanjin. She is the co-author of the 2009 publication Cubism and Australian art (with Sue Cramer), Melbourne University Publishing.

Denise Mimmocchi is senior curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her recent exhibitions and publications include Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close (2025), Margel Hinder: Modern in Motion (2021), Tuckson: The Abstract Sublime (2018) and O'Keeffe, Cossington Smith, Preston: Making Modernism (co-curator, 2016).

Kendrah Morgan is head curator at th Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. She has co-authored two books about Heide history: Sunday's kitchen: food and living at Heide (2010) and Sunday's garden: growing Heide (2012), both published by Melbourne University Publishing in partnership with Heide Museum of Modern Art and the State Library of Victoria.

Justin Paton is chief curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His projects for the Art Gallery have included Mike Hewson: The Key's Under the Mat (2025), Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? (2023) and Adrián Villar Rojas: The End of Imagination (2022).

Monique Leslie Watkins is assistant curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She was curator of the exhibition Raquel Caballero: The Patchwork Portal (2025). Her writing was recently published in Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 (2025) and Janet Dawson: Far Away, So Close (2025).