Tradition and Innovation: 65,000 Years of Indigenous Art

Authors

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  Brook Garru Andrew

  Considered one of Australia’s most important artists and a leading international voice in advocating for Indigenous ways of knowing through contemporary creative practice, Dr Brook Garru Andrew’s practice is grounded in his perspective as a Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal person. Brook is Enterprise Professor in Interdisciplinary Practice and Director, Reimagining Museums and Collections at the University of Melbourne and Curator (First Peoples) at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
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  Daniel Browning

  Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. Currently the ABC’s Editor of Indigenous Radio, he also presents The Art Show and Arts in 30 podcasts. Hailed as “an outstanding contribution to arts journalism”, his first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. In 2024 he was First Nations Writer-in-Residence and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, based at Trinity Hall College.
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  Jessica Neath

  Dr Jessica Neath is a non-Indigenous Australian art historian of settler descent living and working on Boonwurrung Country in Melbourne. She is a Research Fellow in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab at Monash University.
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  Judith Ryan

  Ms Judith Ryan AM, an art historian, is Senior Curator, Art Museums at the University of Melbourne and was previously Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria where she played a key role in the development and scholarly interpretation of a nationally important public collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.
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  Marcia Langton

  Professor Marcia Langton AO, anthropologist, geographer, academic and public intellectual, is a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland. Since 2000 she has been Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she is Associate Provost.

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