Sheridan Palmer Editor

Jane Eckett lectures in art history at the University of Melbourne. Her writing on artists’ communities, modernist diasporas and stateless artists has appeared in ARTMargins, Discipline and Meno Istorijos Studijos. She is co-author and co-editor of two award-winning books, On Bunurong Country: art and design in Frankston (McClelland, 2023) and Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945 (RMIT, 2019) and was guest curator of Centre Five: bridging the gap (McClelland, 2022).

Sheridan Palmer is an art historian, curator, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She was Senior Research Associate (2020–24) for the Australian Research Council project Abbey Art Centre: Reassessing postwar Australian art, 1946-1956. Publications include Centre of the periphery: three European art historians in Melbourne, (2008) and Hegel’s owl: the life of Bernard Smith (2016). Recent exhibitions include Crichton, Tucker & Whiteley: the Chelsea Hotel years 1967–1969, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2026).

Ian McLean is an Honorary Professorial Fellow and the inaugural Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on relations between Indigenous and European Australian art in articles and book chapters and monographs: Double nation: a history of Australian Art (2023) and Rattling spears: a history of Indigenous Australian Art (2016) and How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art (2011).