BARBARA FLYNN

Flynn was owner of galleries for contemporary and emerging art in New York (1980-94) and an executive with Gagosian Gallery, New York (1994-98), before relocating to Sydney in 1998. She traveled extensively while at Gagosian to develop new business in USA, Mexico, Europe and Asia-Pacific. She acted as liaison to several gallery artists and secured the representation for the gallery of Douglas Gordon and the David Smith Estate. In May 1999 she founded a company in Sydney to facilitate the global exchange of art and advance the work of younger Australian artists. As art consultant to UBS Australia, Flynn assembled the art collection for the UBS offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2006. She has put collections together for corporations ABN AMRO (RBS), DHL, and MBF, and assisted ABN AMRO to institute its ongoing Emerging Artist Award. Flynn curates an ongoing series of exhibitions of emerging art for the Sydney head office of Deloitte. From 2006-08 she acted as curator for the City of Sydney’s ‘Open Gallery’ public banner project. The siting of large-scale works of art in office tower developments is another area of Flynn’s expertise. In 2004 she authored a study on public art in private development that was commissioned by the city of Sydney. Currently, Flynn divides her time between Sydney and New York. Flynn’s experience extends to the institutional sector through early roles in two of the leading museums in Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, and Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, with funding from a Yale University Murray Fellowship. She studied art history at Yale University and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and is the author of a book as well as catalogues, essays and reviews about art.

MARK NASH

Head of Department of the Curating Contemporary Art department, Mark Nash is a well-known specialist in contemporary fine art moving image practices, avant-garde and world cinema. He was co-curator of Documenta 11, (2002) and film curator of the Berlin Biennial, (2004). He has most recently curated Experiments With Truth, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, (2004-5) and a conference on Film and Ecology for the Royal Society of Arts. Prior to joining the Royal College of Art, Mark was Director of Fine Art Research at Central St Martins, He has also been a Senior Lecturer in Film History and Theory at the University of East London, and visiting lecturer on the Whitney Museum Independent Study Programme. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University.

ANITA TAYLOR

Taylor makes drawings and paintings, which explore the representation of female identities, notions of pleasure and sensuality, the private and the public, decoration and allegory, and the influence of scale on the reading of a work; this includes exploratory and realised work in the form of invented paintings, drawings, prints, sketchbooks, notebooks, work from the model and self-portraiture. She is also concerned with the development of the knowledge and understanding in contemporary drawing, and is the founding Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the annual exhibition for drawing in the UK. Anita Taylor (b. 1961) studied at Mid-Cheshire College of Art (1980-81), Gloucestershire College of Art (1981-84) and the Royal College of Art (1985-87). She is Professor of Fine Art, Dean of Wimbledon College of Art, and Director of The Centre for Drawing at the University of the Arts London. She was Artist-in-Residence at Durham Cathedral (1987-88); Fellow in Painting at Gloucestershire College of Art (1988-89) and Artist-in-Residence in Drawing at the National Art School Sydney, Australia (2004). She has exhibited, taught and examined nationally and internationally. She was elected an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in 2005.


PAUL THOMAS

Dr. Paul Thomas, is currently the co-chair of the Transdisciplinary Image Conference 2010. In 2000 Paul instigated and was the founding Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2002, 2004. Paul has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space. Media-Space was part of the first global link up with artists connected to ARTEX. From 1981-1986 the group was involved in a number of collaborative exhibitions and was instrumental in the establishment of a substantial body of research. Paul’s current research project ‘Nanoessence’ explores the space between life and death at a nano level. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology and SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia. The previous project ‘Midas’ researched at a nano level the transition phase between skin and gold. Paul has recently completed working on an intelligent architecture public art project for the Curtin Mineral and Chemistry Research Precinct. Paul is a practicing electronic artist whose work has exhibited internationally and can be seen on his website Visiblespace.