Hetti Perkins
Curator, writer and presenter Hetti Perkins is a member of the Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities. Hetti is the curator of ‘Desert Mob’ presented annually by Desart, the peak advocacy body for Central Australian art centres. Hetti has worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual art for over thirty years and was Senior Curator (at large), National Gallery of Australia where she curated Ceremony: the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial (March – July 2022). Hetti also co-curated (with Kelli Cole) a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Emily Kam Kngwarray for the National Gallery in 2023-24. She was the recipient of the University of NSW Alumni Award 2017 Arts and Culture and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Australia 2017 Award. In 2018 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship. In 2019, Hetti was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of New South Wales.
Kelli Cole
Kelli Cole, a Warumungu and Luritja woman from Central Australia, is the Director of Curatorial & Engagement for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery of Australia project in Alice Springs. She is the lead curator for the Tate Modern exhibition Emily Kam Kngwarray (July 2025 – January 2026), building upon the 2023 National Gallery of Australia exhibition she co-curated with Hetti Perkins. Previously, she held the position of Curator of Special Projects in the First Nations portfolio at the National Gallery of Australia. Cole has contributed to numerous publications, both nationally and internationally, on various aspects of First Nations art and also worked closely with Hetti Perkins as part of the curatorial team for the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony (2022).
Kimberley Moulton
Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta Curator and writer. She is the Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art Tate Modern and Senior Curator RISING Festival Melbourne. She previously held the role of Senior Curator First Peoples at Museums Victoria (2016-2023) and is alumni of National Gallery of Australia Wesfarmers Indigenous Leadership program (2010) and their inaugural International Curatorial Fellow (2015). In the last seventeen years of her practice Kimberley has curated numerous exhibitions within Australia and globally and extensively written on Indigenous art and curatorial practice. Her most recent exhibition is the Tarrawarra Biennial of Australian Contemporary Art, We Are Eagles (2025).
Stephen Gilchrist
Stephen Gilchrist belongs to the Yamatji people of the Inggarda language group of north-west Western Australia. He is Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia, and a writer and curator who has worked with the Indigenous Australian collections of the National Gallery of Australia, British Museum, National Gallery of Victoria and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Between 2012 and 2016 Gilchrist was the Australian Studies Visiting Curator at the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University. He works with major Australian and international institutions and contributes to international dialogues surrounding the scholarship and interpretation of Indigenous art and culture, with a focus on Indigenous curation as an expression of sovereignty.
Jennifer Green
Jennifer Green is a Research Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. For over forty years she has collaborated with Aboriginal people in Central and Northern Australia, documenting spoken and signed languages, cultural history, and visual arts. A particular focus has been on Kngwarray’s language, Anmatyerr. Before studying linguistics Jennifer established the arts and crafts programs at Utopia where Kngwarray first learnt to make batik in 1977. She worked closely with Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins on the Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition, held at the National Gallery of Australia in 2023-24.
