Bernice Murphy Editor & Author

Bernice Murphy has been national director of Museums Australia since 2006, with more than three decades of museums-sector experience. She was chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 1989 until 1997 and director of the museum from 1997 until 1998. She is the editor of Museums Australia Magazine.

Leon Paroissien AM has been chairman of the City of Sydney Public Art Advisory Panel since 2007. He was founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 1989 until 1997 and founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, from 2001 until 2003. He has been Adjunct Professor: Design and Architecture, University of Canberra (2004 – 2010); Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (2006 – 2007); Editor, Visual Arts and Culture: An International Journal of Contemporary Art (1997 – 2001); Co-editor, Art and Australia (1987-1988) and Editor (1989-1990).