Something Deeply Personal

Juno Gemes is one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary photographers. In words and images she has spent 40 years documenting the changing social landscape of Australia, and in particular the lives and struggles of Aboriginal Australians, a process that culminated in her being one of the ten photographers invited to document the National Apology in Canberra in 2008. Djon Mundine OAM is a member of the Bandjalung people of northern New South Wales with an extended career as a curator, activist and writer. His career has helped revolutionise the criticism and display of contemporary Aboriginal art. He was awarded an OAM in 1993. Frances Peters-Little is a Kamilaroi / Uralarai woman and was a Research Fellowand Director Of Indigenous History Unit at ANU. She is a writer and filmmaker and currently working on the Biography of her late father the reknown Aboriginal Musician and Songwriter Jimmy Little Fred Myers is the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. His work explores the significance of art and material culture as a point of articulation between the values and expectations of Indigenous people and institutions of the outside world. Natalie King is an Australian curator, cultural producer and arts leader with more than two decades experience in international contemporary art. She is Curator of Yuki Kihara, Aotearoa New Zealand at 59th Venice Biennale 2022. In 2018, she was a finalist in the AFR 100 Women of Influence. In 2020, she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia, OAM for "services to the contemporary visual arts.