Julie Blyfield

Caitlin Eyre is an arts writer and the Curator and Exhibitions Manager at JamFactory in Adelaide (Tarntanya), South Australia. In 2024, she curated JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a passion, a major national touring exhibition of Julie Blyfield’s work. Caitlin has previously undertaken a curatorial internship at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, as well as an editorial arts writing internship at Berlin Art Link in Germany. Her personal research interests include mourning and sentimental jewellery (especially hairwork) and women’s folk crafts.

Bronwyn Watson has been writing about the visual arts for over 35 years as a feature writer, critic and columnist for newspapers and magazines such as the Sydney Morning Herald, the Weekend Australian, the Bulletin, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s LOOK magazine, Artlink, Art Monthly and Art & Australia. For the past 15 years she has been writing the weekly ‘Public works’ column in the arts section of the Weekend Australian, which focuses on artworks in public collections around Australia. She is currently working on a publication featuring a collection of her columns. Bronwyn holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in fine arts, and a Diploma of Art Education, both from the University of Sydney. She has taught visual art at a western Sydney high school and has lectured and tutored at universities such as Deakin University in Melbourne (Naarm) and the University of Canberra (Ngunnawal). She recently completed a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, researching sociolinguistics, at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Meanjin).

Julie Blyfield won the $50,000 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2011 with her artwork Scintilla Series “Spiralling weed, Soft sponge, Sea urchin” Vessels 2010.