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Tarntanya/Adelaide artist Helen Fuller is curious, inventive and willing to follow her compulsion to make, whatever the material. Over a long and extensive career, she has established a multidisciplinary practice encompassing a rich variety of painting, sculpture, installation and, in recent years, ceramics. Driven by intuition and materiality, she approaches ceramics in a manner she likens to painting, concerned with the characteristics of form rather than the function of the vessel. Unfailingly experimental, she describes her instinct as 'off-road'. In Helen Fuller, the first major publication devoted entirely to Fuller's work, the authors explore aspects of her fifty years of practice and a life of art.

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Ross Wolfe is an Adelaide-based administrator and writer. He has held influential roles in Australian arts administration, including as director of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, from 1983, where he secured formal Italian and Australian government agreements for a permanent Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. An activist in his early career, he founded the seminal visual arts journal, Art Network magazine, in 1979, and was closely involved with establishment of Artspace, in Sydney. Wolfe was deputy director at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 1988 and, from 1992-2009, inaugural director of the philanthropic Samstag Program at the University of South Australia. He is a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Australian visual arts journals, and is the author and editor of The Samstag Legacy: An artist'sbBequest, a 2016 biography of Anne and Gordon Samstag. Sasha Grbich is an artist, writer and lecturer at the Adelaide Central School of Art where she teaches in sculpture, art history and theory. Grbich is a regular contributor to Artlink and other critical review publications. She was awarded the 2018 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to attend the Maumaus School's School of Visual Art in Portugal, and undertook this institution's independent study program. In 2015, Grbich completed postgraduate research at University of South Australia. She is currently researching her PhD at Flinders University (Adelaide), addressing women's experimental art practices in 1970s Australia through the Flinders University Museum of Art's collection of post-object and documentation art collection. Glenn Barkley is a Sydney-based independent curator, artist and valuer. He was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia from 2008 to 2014, and curator of the University of Wollongong Art Collection from 1996 to 2007. Between 2007 and 2008, he was director and curator of the Ergas Collection. Barkley is currently an Associate Curator of The Curators' Department, Sydney, which is the organisation he co-founded in 2015. He has written extensively on Australian art and culture for magazines such as Art Monthly Australasia, Artist Profile and Art + Australia, as well as for numerous catalogues and monographs. Barkley has a diverse area of interest and knowledge, including: ceramics; public art; artist books and ephemera; outsider art and other marginal art forms; public and private collection management and development; and horticulture.

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