Dispatch Review aims to pin down ideas and stir up conversations about art. We publish art criticism, opinion pieces, and interviews. Reviews are dispatched spontaneously, often weekly.
Editors:
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 holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Western Australia, where she teaches art history.
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.
Contributors:
Felicity Bean studies art at Murdoch University.
Samuel Beilby is a contemporary artist and researcher. He currently teaches Fine Art at the University of Western Australia.
Angus Bowskill is an artist based in Perth, WA. Their work explores observation, mediation, and redaction through digital media and printmaking techniques.
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.
William Bromage is an editor of Guan Kan Journal and holds a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Western Australia. His interests lie in Indigenous archaeology, as well as Chinese history and its contemporary art.
Rex Butler teaches Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University and writes on Australian art.
Rainy Colbert is an art critic and bush poet, primarily interested in the Sublime.
Grace Coppola is a graduate of art history and literary studies from UWA, currently completing honours work on literary mimesis and romantic poetry.
Anna Daly is a writer and researcher, and the Managing Editor of the Women's Art Register Bulletin. Her interests span Australian visual cultural history, spatiality, and trompe l’oeil painting. Her most recent work includes co-editing Keeping Things Together: 50 Years of the Women's Art Register, published by MUP; and writing 'A Note About Trompe l'Oeil' for Gagosian Quarterly and ‘Mapping the Interior’ for Space and Culture.
Aimee Dodds is a Perth-based arts writer and co-founder of Dispatch Review. She has written for Memo Review, Art Almanac, un Magazine, 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.
Kye Fisher holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia and currently works within UWA’s research portfolio. Kye has a keen interest in contemporary Chinese art and music.
Nick FitzPatrick is an artist and arts worker. He is primarily interested in images and their relationship to systems of power and knowledge.
Dan Glover is a barista and emerging arts writer, currently studying History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the University of Western Australia.
Soph Grey is an emerging creative, Fine Arts graduate and cafe coworker to fellow writer Dan Glover. Based in Walyalup, her practice revolves around an infatuation with the home.
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.
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.
Amy Hickman writes occasionally about sex, gender, deconstruction, and biopolitics.
Chelsea Hopper is a curator and writer whose research focuses on modern and contemporary photography and populism. She is Art Director of Memo Magazine.
Darren Jorgensen lectures in art history at the University of Western Australia. His most recent book is The Dead C’s Clyma Est Mort.
Stirling Kain is an arts administrator with a BA in History of Art and History. She works with various arts organisations in WA.
Riley Landau is an emerging arts writer currently studying art history and curatorial studies at the University of Western Australia.
Marco Marcon is a creative producer, writer, and academic originally from Italy, currently residing between Perth and Viterbo (Italy). He is the founding director of SPACED, previously known as the International Art Space Kellerberrin, Australia (IASKA). Marcon’s writing is also available via his Substack, Minima Aesthetica (click here to view).
Samuel Beilby is a contemporary artist and researcher. He currently teaches Fine Art at the University of Western Australia.
Angus Bowskill is an artist based in Perth, WA. Their work explores observation, mediation, and redaction through digital media and printmaking techniques.
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.
William Bromage is an editor of Guan Kan Journal and holds a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Western Australia. His interests lie in Indigenous archaeology, as well as Chinese history and its contemporary art.
Rex Butler teaches Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University and writes on Australian art.
Rainy Colbert is an art critic and bush poet, primarily interested in the Sublime.
Grace Coppola is a graduate of art history and literary studies from UWA, currently completing honours work on literary mimesis and romantic poetry.
Anna Daly is a writer and researcher, and the Managing Editor of the Women's Art Register Bulletin. Her interests span Australian visual cultural history, spatiality, and trompe l’oeil painting. Her most recent work includes co-editing Keeping Things Together: 50 Years of the Women's Art Register, published by MUP; and writing 'A Note About Trompe l'Oeil' for Gagosian Quarterly and ‘Mapping the Interior’ for Space and Culture.
Aimee Dodds is a Perth-based arts writer and co-founder of Dispatch Review. She has written for Memo Review, Art Almanac, un Magazine, 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.
Kye Fisher holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia and currently works within UWA’s research portfolio. Kye has a keen interest in contemporary Chinese art and music.
Nick FitzPatrick is an artist and arts worker. He is primarily interested in images and their relationship to systems of power and knowledge.
Dan Glover is a barista and emerging arts writer, currently studying History of Art and Curatorial Studies at the University of Western Australia.
Soph Grey is an emerging creative, Fine Arts graduate and cafe coworker to fellow writer Dan Glover. Based in Walyalup, her practice revolves around an infatuation with the home.
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.
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.
Amy Hickman writes occasionally about sex, gender, deconstruction, and biopolitics.
Chelsea Hopper is a curator and writer whose research focuses on modern and contemporary photography and populism. She is Art Director of Memo Magazine.
Darren Jorgensen lectures in art history at the University of Western Australia. His most recent book is The Dead C’s Clyma Est Mort.
Stirling Kain is an arts administrator with a BA in History of Art and History. She works with various arts organisations in WA.
Riley Landau is an emerging arts writer currently studying art history and curatorial studies at the University of Western Australia.
Marco Marcon is a creative producer, writer, and academic originally from Italy, currently residing between Perth and Viterbo (Italy). He is the founding director of SPACED, previously known as the International Art Space Kellerberrin, Australia (IASKA). Marcon’s writing is also available via his Substack, Minima Aesthetica (click here to view).
Jonathan W. Marshall is head of postgraduate
studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan
University. Marshall has published in both scholarly and journalistic contexts,
his writings covering Japanese butoh dance, the influence of fin de siècle
neurology on the history of performance, photography, Australian modernist art,
Mark Rothko’s spiritualism, and the work of Georges Didi-Huberman: click here for more.
Siân McIntyre is a researcher and art worker. www.sianmcintyre.com.
Duncan McKay is an artist, arts researcher and arts writer who since 2014 has worked as a public art administrator with local government and State Government organisations. He has a PhD, an MCA, a BFA (Hons.) and is completing a Master in Curatorial Studies.
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.
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.
Felicity Ostergaard is an editor of Guan Kan Journal and currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Archaeology, with a minor in Curatorial Studies. Her interest in Chinese Contemporary art stems from her own performance art practice as well as modes of displaying site specific interventions.
Annette Peterson is a writer and visual artist with a Master’s in Design and Art from Curtin University and a BA in English Literature from the University of Western Australia. A former journalist, she has been a contributing writer for Artists Chronicle for the past five years.
Jacinta Posik studies Fine Arts and History of Art at the University of Western Australia.
Scott Price is an artist based in Perth/Boorloo. He is interested in the interplay between culture and history in the formation of land and place relations, explored through a multidisciplinary practice.
Diego Ramírez is an artist with dreams, a writer with hopes and a facilitator with beliefs. He is represented by MARS Gallery.
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.
Nalinie See holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Fine Arts and Art History from The University of Western Australia. She currently works as an Art Teacher and as a Sales and Wardrobe Planning Co-worker at IKEA.
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.
Paul Sutherland is a researcher and educator from Western Australia. His work concerns online visual culture, media philosophy, and post-truth.
Maraya Takoniatis studies and conducts research in Philosophy, Fine Arts, and History of Art at the University of Western Australia.
Matthew Taggart is an arts worker, artist and musician. Their work is experimental in its exploration of future sounds and the human experience.
Leslie Thompson is a freelance arts writer.
Jess van Heerden is an emerging arts writer and visual arts technician. They have a BA in History of Artand Fine Art, with a minor in Curatorial Studies, and are almost finishedtheir Art History Honours.
Ben Yaxley is a writer, arts student, and English teacher living in Boorloo.
Siân McIntyre is a researcher and art worker. www.sianmcintyre.com.
Duncan McKay is an artist, arts researcher and arts writer who since 2014 has worked as a public art administrator with local government and State Government organisations. He has a PhD, an MCA, a BFA (Hons.) and is completing a Master in Curatorial Studies.
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.
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.
Felicity Ostergaard is an editor of Guan Kan Journal and currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Archaeology, with a minor in Curatorial Studies. Her interest in Chinese Contemporary art stems from her own performance art practice as well as modes of displaying site specific interventions.
Annette Peterson is a writer and visual artist with a Master’s in Design and Art from Curtin University and a BA in English Literature from the University of Western Australia. A former journalist, she has been a contributing writer for Artists Chronicle for the past five years.
Jacinta Posik studies Fine Arts and History of Art at the University of Western Australia.
Scott Price is an artist based in Perth/Boorloo. He is interested in the interplay between culture and history in the formation of land and place relations, explored through a multidisciplinary practice.
Diego Ramírez is an artist with dreams, a writer with hopes and a facilitator with beliefs. He is represented by MARS Gallery.
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.
Nalinie See holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Fine Arts and Art History from The University of Western Australia. She currently works as an Art Teacher and as a Sales and Wardrobe Planning Co-worker at IKEA.
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.
Paul Sutherland is a researcher and educator from Western Australia. His work concerns online visual culture, media philosophy, and post-truth.
Maraya Takoniatis studies and conducts research in Philosophy, Fine Arts, and History of Art at the University of Western Australia.
Matthew Taggart is an arts worker, artist and musician. Their work is experimental in its exploration of future sounds and the human experience.
Leslie Thompson is a freelance arts writer.
Jess van Heerden is an emerging arts writer and visual arts technician. They have a BA in History of Artand Fine Art, with a minor in Curatorial Studies, and are almost finishedtheir Art History Honours.
Ben Yaxley is a writer, arts student, and English teacher living in Boorloo.
Note: any conflicts of interest that may arise between editors and the subject and/or topic of a review will see the affected editors forego any and all participation in the editorial process of the related text.
Designer:
Mia Davis is an arts worker and design student based in Boorloo/Perth. Davis is powered by a love of connecting audiences to art and ideas, with inclusive design being key to her practice.
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