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Julie Ewington is a curator and writer based in Sydney, Australia. After an academic career at Flinders University (Adelaide), University of Sydney, and Canberra School of Art (now Australian National University), she worked for three decades as a curator. Between 2001 and 2014 Julie led Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, contributing to the Asia-Pacific Triennial (1996-2012). Recent projects include The Housing Question: Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys (Penrith Regional Gallery, 2019) and Juanita McLauchlan: gii mara-bula/Heart Hand-also, (Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2023). Her writing includes the monographs Fiona Hall (2005) and Del Kathryn Barton (2014) and numerous essays; she edits publications for Australian and Singapore art museums; and publishes in journals including Art Monthly and Australian Book Review. Julie is Chair, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, and a board member at Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide. In 2014 she received the Australia Council’s Emeritus Medal (Visual Arts Board).

Tina Oldknow is an independent curator and art historian specialising in contemporary art, craft and design in glass. The former Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, she has curated over 30 exhibitions and has written over 100 books, articles and essays on glass. In 2014, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council, and, in 2015, she was appointed Honorary Fellow of The Corning Museum of Glass.