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Wardandi and Badimaya curator, writer and advocate Clothilde Bullen OAM is the Manager Art, Culture and Collections at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Clothilde previously worked at the Art Gallery of Western Australia as the Senior Curator and Head of Indigenous Programs, after 5 years at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as their inaugural Senior Curator First Nations art. She is a board member of the UNESCO International Association of Art Critics (Australian chapter) and former Chair of the Board of the National Association for the Visual Arts, as well as panellist for the 10 Year Vision for the Arts for the Western Australian State Government.

Dr. Stefano Carboni is a native of Venice and a specialist in Islamic art and museum strategies, leadership, management and curatorial studies. He was the CEO of the Museums Commission in the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh (2019-23); Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2008-19); and Curator and Administrator in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1992-2008). He is currently a part-time
Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies in the School of Design at the University of Western Australia. He was knighted by the President of the Republic of Italy in 2023. He is presently on
the board of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA.

His research, lectures and publications span several areas of Islamic art, with a particular emphasis on glass studies, the art-historical relationship between the Islamic world, Europe, and Asia, and illustrated manuscripts. His most significant contributions to these fields are the exhibition and accompanying catalogue Glass of the Sultans (in collaboration with David Whitehouse); the catalogue of the Islamic glass collection in the National Museum of Kuwait (Glass from Islamic Lands, 2001); Mamluk Enamelled and Gilded Glass from the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar (2003); The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353 (with Linda Komaroff, 2002); Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797 (2006); The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting: A Study of the London Qazvīnī (2015); Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art Culture and Exchange (2024); and a large number of specialized articles published since 1989 to the present. He has lectured widely on all these subjects during his career. He is currently working on a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the 14 th -century Mamluk enamelled and gilded mosque lamps, to be published in 2029.

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Andy Quilty is an artist, independent arts worker and Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia. He works across the state facilitating creative development workshops in Aboriginal art centres, schools, community organisations, not-for profits and prisons. Quilty’s practice identifies a creative visual language located in outer suburbia incorporating material and psychological expressions, markings and gestures, positioned as inventive expressions of outer suburban experience. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Art) from Curtin University and a Master of Fine Arts (Research) from the University of Western Australia.