About the Author

Lesley Harding joined Heide Museum of Modern Art as Curator in 2005. She has curatorial experience spanning fifteen years and is an art historian specialising in Australian modernism. She has a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and English Literature, Postgraduate diploma in Art Curatorial Studies, and MA in Art History from the University of Melbourne. She is completing a PhD in the University s School of Culture & Communication which examines modernist mural painting in Australia for which she received an Australian Postgraduate Award. Sue Cramer joined Heide Museum of Modern Art as Public Programs Co-ordinator in 2005 and in January 2009 took up the position of Curator. Following a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and History at the University of Melbourne she has worked since the early 1980s as a curator and writer on contemporary art. In 1990 Sue was awarded a Professional Development Grant by the Australia Council enabling her to take up the one-year position of Visiting Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. She subsequently joined the MCA as a Curator (from 1991 2001). In 1984, Sue was Art Critic for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. In addition to writing exhibition catalogu