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Sam Beard is the head editor and co-founder of Dispatch Review. His writing has appeared in Artlink, un Magazine, and Art Collector.

Amelia Birch is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Western Australia.

Max Vickery is a Marxist historian and critic based in Whadjuk country. A co-founder of Dispatch Review, Vickery provides copy and line editing for texts before publication.

Darren Jorgensen lectures in art history at the University of Western Australia. His most recent book is The Dead C’s Clyma Est Mort.

Aimee Dodds is a Perth based arts writer and co-founder of Dispatch Review. She has written for Memo Review, Art Almanac, ArtsHub, and Artist Profile Magazine. Dodds has first class joint honours in the History of Art and English and Cultural Studies from the University of Western Australia.

Rex Butler teaches Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University and writes on Australian art.

Francis Russell is a former academic and trade union official. He researches contemporary art and alienation, drawing on the legacies of Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and phenomenology.

Tara Heffernan is an art historian and critic. Her work concerns modernism and the avant-gardes, conceptual art and the lineage/s of the New Left.

Maraya Takoniatis studies and conducts research in Philosophy, Fine Arts, and History of Art at the University of Western Australia. 

Zali Morgan is an emerging artist, writer and curator, currently working at The Art Gallery of Western Australia as assistant curator of Indigenous Art. She is of Ballardong, Wilman and Whadjuk descent.

Kieron Broadhurst is an artist based in Perth, WA. Through a variety of media he investigates the speculative potential of fiction within contemporary art practice.

Leslie Thompson is a freelance arts writer.

Rainy Colbert is an art critic and bush poet, primarily interested in the Sublime.

Stirling Kain is an arts administrator with a BA in History of Art and History. She works with various arts organisations in WA.

Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School.

Ian McLean is an art historian and the former Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is Double Nation: A History of Australian Art.

Nick FitzPatrick is an artist and arts worker. He is primarily interested in images and their relationship to systems of power and knowledge.

Samuel Beilby is a contemporary artist and researcher. He currently teaches Fine Art at the University of Western Australia.

Jess van Heerden studies History of Art, Fine Art and Curatorial Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Ben Yaxley is a writer, arts student, and English teacher living in Boorloo.

Dan Glover is a barista and emerging arts writer, currently studying History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Sam Harper is an archaeologist and rock art specialist based at CRAR+M, UWA, living and working on Whadjuk country. She works with communities across the northwest of Australia.

Matthew Taggart is an arts worker, artist and musician. Their work is experimental in its exploration of future sounds and the human experience.

Jacinta Posik studies Fine Arts and History of Art at the University of Western Australia.

Felicity Bean studies art at Murdoch University.