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 Maurice O’RiordanMaurice O’Riordan has been a freelance arts writer since the early ’90s. He has written for numerous Australian and international art magazines, and been a publicist for the NT Writers’ Centre, Darwin. He is currently editor of Art Monthly Australia, based in Canberra.  Dr Tamsin KerrDr Tamsin Kerr writes from the edge, poised between rural and urban, under the supervision of Cooroora Mountain in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast. She has spoken at the USA’s Smithsonian, at Spain’s Guggenheim, and around Australia as well as writing over 20 lead articles and influential publications. Current projects include Writing Floating Land, green art publications, working with Indigenous groups to put together a whiteness teacher training package for Education Queensland, and promoting the return of urban creek systems in Brisbane in conjunction with the Architecture and Planning Department of the University of Queensland. As the director of the Cooroora Institute, Tamsin promotes the creative links between the arts and environment. A Collation of Eccentrics forum  Professor Margaret SomervilleProfessor of Education, Monash University Margaret Somerville is interested in writing place through the body. She likes to work in the space in between creative and academic writing and indigenous and western knowledges. Her experimental writing combines journal writing, spoken word, multiple voices, visual images, and sensory responsiveness to place. Her most recent projects have been about how we learn about place and form community - in the brown coal mining communities of Latrobe Valley Victoria, and in relation to water in the drylands of the Murray-Darling Basin. Her latest publication Always unfinished business: of singing the country is an alternative version of a catalogue to accompany an exhibition of stories and artworks about water. It explores place-making-in-process within an Indigenous/non-Indigenous project team.  Dr Paul CarterDr Paul Carter is an internationally acclaimed author, scholar, designer and artist. His latest book, Dark Writing: geography, performance, design (2009), explores the nexus between spatial history, and placemaking theory and practice. Previous books include The Road to Botany Bay, The Lie of the Land, Material Thinking, Parrot, The Sound In-Between and Repressed Spaces. Paul is Creative Director of Material Thinking, a Melbourne-based placemaking research and design studio. Major placemaking commissions include Nearamnew, Federation Square, Melbourne; Relay, Homebush Bay, 2000 Olympics (with Ruark Lewis); and Golden Grove, University of Sydney. Paul is currently designing a public space project in Darwin. |
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