New York

Genevieve Allison is an artist and writer from New Zealand about to start an internship at MoMA. She contributes to Artforum and has had articles published with Vonhundert Magazine and Art New Zealand.

Wellington

Mark Amery is an arts editor, curator, critic, broadcaster and journalist. A graduate in Art History, English and Law from University of Auckland, he has been visual arts critic at the Dominion Post for the last six years. Mark has been commentating, producing and interviewing on radio since 1989, for RNZ, Radio Active and bFM. He was editor of national arts magazine Stamp, a founding deputy editor of Pavement magazine, and editor of Capital Times in and of dance magazine DANZ. Mark has also been a critic and arts journalist for the Sunday Star-Times, The Listener and Evening Post, and has contributed feature articles to numerous magazines from Metro to international art magazine Flash Art. He was part of the curatorial team at City Gallery 2000-2002, heavily involved in Artspace in the early 1990s, and more recently the Director of Playmarket. In 2010 he is co-curator of a Wellington public art programme Letting Space.

Brisbane

Carmen Ansaldo is a freelance art writer and editor with a degree in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University; and honours in Art History from the University of Queensland. To view more of her work please go to http://carmenansaldo.wordpress.com/

Brisbane

Andrea Bell is an independent writer and curator currently working for the Queensland Art Gallery. She has worked for several art organizations in Australia and New Zealand. Andrea is the Art Editor for Hue and Cry Journal; was previously a member of the un Magazine editorial committee; and regularly contributes to publications such as Eyeline, un Magazine, the John Dory Report and Runway. Andrea has an MA in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.

Melbourne

Originally from Auckland, Serena Bentley is an arts writer currently based in Melbourne. She holds a Master of Arts in Art History with first class honours from the University of Auckland and has worked in various public institutions and commercial galleries in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne since 2003.

Auckland

Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers is a writer and curator living in Auckland. She was ARTSPACE’s Curatorial Intern in 2008 where she curated the exhibition Beginning in the Archive: Giovanni Intra 1989-1996. She currently teaches contemporary art and theory at the University of Auckland while contributing to a number of contemporary art publications including Eyeline and Art & Australia.

Auckland

Danny Butt is an Auckland-based writer and surfer. He teaches in the Critical Studies programme at Elam School of Fine Arts, and is a member of the collective Local Time. http://www.dannybutt.net

Berlin

Anthony Byrt is a New Zealand writer who lives and works in London and Berlin. His writing has appeared in publications in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Britain and Germany, including the Listener, Landfall, Art World and the New Statesman. He is a regular contributor to Artforum.com.

Copenhagen

Kah Bee Chow is an artist currently studying towards of Master of Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy in Sweden.

Wellington

David Cross is a Wellington based artist and writer. His practice is largely performance and installation based and focuses on the relationship between pleasure, the grotesque and the phobic. His often large scale performance installations have sought to incorporate and extend contemporary theories of participation linking performance art with object-based environments. He has shown widely in Australia and New Zealand at Perspecta 99 in Sydney and Australian Centre of Contemporary Art Melbourne. He was included in the survey of contemporary New Zealand performance, Mostly Harmless, at Govett Brewster Art Gallery and has developed solo projects for Interactions 5 in Poland and Performance Studies International in Zagreb. Cross also writes extensively on contemporary art for local and international journals and recently co-edited the book One Day Sculpture with Claire Doherty. He is Associate Professor in Fine Art at Massey University.

Dunedin

Jodie Dalgleish is a curator and writer currently living in Wellington. She was intern-assistant curator and then assistant curator with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery between August 2006 and March 2008. Exhibitions she has curated at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery include Journeywork: The Sculpture of Peter Nicholls, Russell Moses: Garden of Light and Madonna to Modern: Women of the Collection. Jodie has a Graduate Diploma in Art History and Theory from the University of Otago and has been completing a Master of Creative Writing exploring the ways in which the arts are perceived and experienced.

Hamilton

Peter Dornauf is a Hamilton artist, novelist and teacher. He has lectured at both Wintec and Waikato University in the subject of art history and is currently teaching the same at St. Peter’s School, Cambridge part-time while painting and working on his second novel.

Dunedin

Originally from Canada, Erin now lives and studies in Dunedin. She is currently working on a PhD thesis that investigates connections between space exploration and contemporary Earthworks art in the United States during the sixties and seventies. She has written art reviews for the Otago Daily Times and had an article published in Oculus: Postgraduate Journal for Visual Arts Research. Erin is interested in how cultural histories are reflected in the visual arts, and is constantly confused by this relationship - in the best possible way.

Wellington

Megan Dunn has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Auckland University. From 1997 - 2000 she was co-director of the artist run space Fiat Lux. During this time her video art was exhibited throughout New Zealand. In 2006 she completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, graduating with distinction. Her fiction and reviews have been published in Landfall, Art New Zealand, Pavement, The Listener and on various websites. She is currently on the board of Trustees for Enjoy Gallery.

Christchurch

Warren Feeney is a writer, art historian and author of ‘The Radical, the Reactionary and the Canterbury Society of Arts 1880-1996,’ published by Canterbury University Press in 2011. He was director of the Centre of Contemporary Art from 1999 to 2010 and is currently the administrator of Chambers@241, a gallery he co-founded in July 2011 in Christchurch to support the work of local artists. He is interested in the relationship New Zealanders have with their art and culture and has published in: The Journal of New Zealand Art History, New Zealand Journal of History, The New Zealand Dictionary of Biography, Landfall, Art New Zealand and Art News, as well as writing for The Press and Sunday Star-Times. He is also a member of the Professional Historians Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa and holds a wide range of interests in the visual arts from the fine arts and architecture to high/low art and conceptual practice.

Sydney

Rachel Fuller is a Sydney-based artist and arts writer. She writes for Art & Australia, Frieze, Das Superpaper and runway. From 2008-2010 she was a co-director of Locksmith Project Space, during which time she also edited arts journal, Locksmith Project. Fuller is one half of the creative collaboration bams & ted and in other news, is currently compiling a bibliography of the published works of Australian artist, Norman Lindsay.

Sydney

Matthew Hanson is a Sydney based writer. He works for the Australian art media resource Das Platforms as director of the video project Related Material, set to launch in November 2011.

Auckland

Keith Hill is a writer and filmmaker. Among his activities: He was founding director of Moving Image Centre, was a year-long Visiting Lecturer in Film at Ilam, was a tutor in Moving Image at Waikato Institute of Technology, has produced, edited, DP’d or directed numerous short films films that have screened around the world, and is a founding director of award-winning record label, Rattle Records. His television roles include Drama Editor on Korero Mai, and Story Producer on Lion Man. His debut novel, Blue Kisses, was published by Harper Collins in 1998, while his feature film, Blue Kisses, debuted in 2003. In 2006 he founded Attar Media to present books, music and films which explore humanist spirituality. Attar Film’s most recent production is a human rights documentary, Hidden Apartheid: A Report on caste Discrimination, produced in associated with Sapna.World Pictures. Keith has been exploring spiritual ideas and practices since 1975. He attended meetings of Abdullah Dougan’s group from then until 1987.

Editor /Auckland

John Hurrell, EyeContact’s editor, is a New Zealand writer, artist and curator who was trained in painting at the University of Canterbury in the early seventies. In the eighties he was an art critic for The Press and Dominion Sunday Times, in the late nineties the curator at the Govett-Brewster in New Plymouth, and in the early part of this millenium the curator of contemporary and historic art at the Waikato Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. Hurrell has written catalogue essays on artists as varied as Julia Morison, Simon Morris, and David Clegg, and many articles for publications such as Art New Zealand, Art News, Australian Art Monthly, Australian Art Collector and Art World. His grid paintings of black-painted street-maps or polyurethane-coated noodles are in many national collections.

Whanganui

Peter Ireland was born in 1947 and works fulltime as a painter, based in Whanganui since 1995. While a student in the mid-1960s he became interested in photography (but never as a practitioner) and was part of the PhotoForum movement which began a decade later. Initially a collector and curator, he began writing about the medium regularly in the later 1970s. As an independent critic he is interested in imagery from 1820 to the present, the development of the medium’s history, and the issues surrounding it as they intersect with the wider art world and New Zealand’s effervescent culture.

Wellington

Sophie Jerram is an independent Wellington-based visual artist, curator and writer. With experience in business and communications she has a strong interest in interdisciplinary practice. In 2010 she founded Now Future, with composer Dugal McKinnon, a partnership instigating arts-led projects addressing issues in sustainability and ecology. She is the co-curator of the Letting Space series with Mark Amery. Sophie has written for Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific, Umelec International and The Dominion Post.

London

David Lillington is a freelance writer and curator. Forthcoming publications include ‘A Weight of One’s Own‘, an interview with Neville Gabie for Corridor 8 Magazine, ‘The Uncanny as Real’, an interview for C Magazine (Canada) with Paulette Phillips and the book Sculpture Craft Magic, on the art of Rob Filby, funded by Arts Council England. His current curatorial project is Wild Gift II: Death and Performance (www.wildgift.org.uk) co-curated with Rosie Cooper. He has contributed to innumerable art magazines and catalogues for the last 20 years, and curated exhibitions since 1997. On July 10 he spoke on the art of Tomoko Takahashi at the De la Warr Pavilion, UK

Brisbane

Tess Maunder’s poly-disciplinary practice explores curatorship, writing and research. She has recently interned with Murray Guy and The Sculpture Center in New York, and currently works as a Curatorial Intern with Queensland Gallery of Art/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. She is the co-director of The Maximilian, an international critical writing platform.

London

Dan Munn is an artist and writer living in London, currently working on an MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College. He has held solo exhibitions at Y3K, Melbourne, and Newcall Gallery, Auckland and has been included in group exhibitions at The National Film Archive and The Wallace Art Awards in Auckland, and High Street Project, Christchurch. He has written for Hue & Cry Journal, Excerpt Magazine, and Stony Brook Press and has presented curatorial projects, most recently at Banner Repeater, London and A Center for Art, Auckland.

Wellington

Melanie Oliver is a writer and curator based in Wellington. She was recently Assistant Curator at Artspace, Sydney and was Assistant Curator at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery from 2007 to 2009. Prior to this she managed the artist-run initiative Enjoy. In 2008 Oliver curated Liz Allan’s project Came a Hot Sundae: A Ronald Hugh Morrieson Festival for the One Day Sculpture series of public art commissions and in 2007 participated in a Goethe Institute internship at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. She is currently studying at Victoria University of Wellington while curating an exhibition for the Artspace Sydney 2011 program.

Wellington

Martin Patrick is an art critic and historian and Senior Lecturer of Critical Studies at Massey University. His writings have appeared internationally in such publications as Afterimage, Art Journal, Art Monthly, and Third Text. Two of his essays were recently published in One Day Sculpture, D. Cross and C. Doherty, eds. (2009). He has presented his research widely, including conferences in Los Angeles, Bristol, and Zagreb. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Illinois State University, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is working on a book that examines artists who engage with the art/life divide.

Christchurch

Andrew Paul Wood (b. Timaru, 1975) is a Christchurch-based art writer/historian and curator. He was educated at the universities of Otago, Massey and Canterbury. He was written variously for The Press, Art New Zealand, Urbis, The New Zealand Listener and publications in Australia and the United States. He is currently completing a critical biography of the artist Theo Schoon, working on a doctorate and Canterbury University on Canterbury’s ‘Pencil Case Painters’ during the 1990s. In 2008 he was awarded a Creative New Zealand professional development grant to travel to Europe (hosted in Germany by the Goethe-Institut and the German Federal Government) to look at strategies for developing art writing in New Zealand as part of the growth of New Zealand’s arts economy.

Auckland

James Ross graduated with a BFA from Auckland University School of Fine Art in 1970, and since that time has exhibited widely in Australasia, Europe and the USA. He has been involved in several curatorial and book projects over the years. In February 2007 his exhibition The Red Studio (1982-2006) took place at The Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland and in September 2008 his exhibition Constructed Connections - Painting & Sculpture 1982-2008 took place at Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington. He has had exhibitions at Bath Street Gallery, Auckland in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Since 2004 he has worked between studios in Auckland and London.

Paris

Yasmine Ryan is a freelance journalist currently based in Paris, a location a little different from her home town of Hamilton. The publications she has written for include The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, TakePart, The Listener, Scoop and Spasifik. Her complete profile is available at http://www.yasmine.org.nz/.

Auckland

Luke Willis Thompson is a practising artist, living and working in Auckland city. He recently completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Auckland; its focus on ready-mades

Christchurch

Creon Upton’s doctoral thesis examined unanticipated sentimentalism in modernist literature, focusing on Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon - a novel arguably more post than modern, if anyone cared enough to argue it. He now divides his time between learning the law and helping students at the University of Canterbury to master the parlances of academia. In a school report Creon’s work habits were described as “spasmodic”. The same might be said of his art reviewing. He writes occasionally but sincerely, seeming to follow the advice of his maternal grandmother that if he has nothing good to say he should say nothing at all.