Lara Strongman (Curator: Tony de Lautour - Monument, Simon Morris - Tilt and Glow and Stadia, Ani O'Neill - Humoured, Michael Parekowhai - Cosmo and Jim McMurtry and Caroline Rothwell - Kotuku) is Deputy Director at City Gallery Wellington, where she manages the curatorial department. Curator of the City Gallery's inaugural biennial survey of New Zealand art, Telecom Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand, she is currently working on a major Shane Cotton survey exhibition and publication for 2003.

Juliana Engberg (Curator: Nathan Coley - The Black Maria and Places Where Something Has Happened and Tacita Dean - The Russian Ending and The Green Ray) is a freelance curator, writer, designer, editor and publisher. She curated the visual arts component of the 2001 and 2002 Melbourne International Festivals, and was Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999. In 2002 she became Director of the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne.

Ewen McDonald (Curator: Matej Andraz Vogrincic - Port, Richard Wentworth - Making Do and Getting By and Video/SCAPE) is a Sydney-based freelance curator, writer and editor. Since the 1980s he has been curator of the Allens Arthur Robinson Collection, Sydney and was appointed curatorial consultant to the University of Canterbury's School of Fine Arts Gallery (SoFA) in mid-2001. He will be co-curator of the forthcoming Auckland Triennial in 2004. Recent curatorial projects include: Tech/No/Zone for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei and The Wanderer Project, a Dutch-New Zealand exchange exhibition for SoFA Gallery, 2002-2003. He edited the Biennale of Sydney 2002 catalogue and the book Points of View: The UTS Art Collection, published August 2002.

Jennifer Hay (Curator: Ed Osborn - Antarctic Images Project and Chris Cree Brown - Aeolian Harp) is Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch. She was researcher and co-curator for Colloquium 2000, a series of three exhibitions and an international symposium examining post-object and performance art in New Zealand. Hay's publications include an essay entry for the Intervention catalogue; an essay for the Di ffrench retrospective catalogue; and an entry on performance art for the forthcoming Fitzroy Dearborn Encyclopedia of Sculpture. She was also contributing writer and researcher for A Concise History of Art in Canterbury.

Dr Deidre Brown (Curator: Whare) is Senior Lecturer in Aotearoa New Zealand Art History at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts where she teaches Maori art and architecture. She has a PhD in Architecture from the University of Auckland and is currently researching the use and development of digital interactive displays for museological contexts. In 2001 she curated (with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki) Techno Maori - Maori Art in the Digital Age, at City Gallery Wellington and Pataka Museum.

 

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