With the imminent publication of The Art Life’s Power Trip 2016 we present a palette cleansing, ice cold martini of talent crowding at the edges of the top 50…
Samantha Littley
Clever curator at UQ Art Museum.
Mariam Arcilla
Reporter on the spot.
Heath Franco
Artist on the rise – want to come inside and have a cuppa?
Amy Barrett-Lennard
Director of PICA.
Amelia Barikin
Free range curator, writer and editor.
Emily Cormack
Writer, academic and newly minted curator of Primavera 2016
Peter Drew
Guerilla poster artist and video maker
Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh
Directors, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, knitwear models
James Little & Ben Aitken
Directors of Nicolas Projects, Melbourne’s hottest newest gallery
The Hon Troy Grant MP
NSW Minister for the Arts, Deputy Premier, Liberal with a sense of humour
James Valentine
Third – or possibly fourth, fifth – career for former Models saxophonist as the affable host of ABC News 24’s The Mix.
Sian McIntyre
Curator, artist, super-smiling-and-beer-providing Verge Gallery mainstay.
Melissa Loughnan
Free range writer, author, curator.
Aaron Seeto
Curatorial manager of Asian Pacific art at QAG/GOMA and co-curator of APT8
Isobel Parker Philip
Free range curator, writer, assistant curator AGNSW
Tara Cook
Artist, curator, academic, social media sensation.
Toby Fehily
Art Guide editor, understanding fellow.
Runway Editors
Nine person editorial board of troublemakers.
