Arthur McIntyre : bad blood 1960-2000

Arthur McIntyre (1945–2003) studied at the National Art School and Alexander Mackie College from 1963–66, and art history at the University of Sydney 1971–73. He exhibited his work from 1970 until his death in Sydney in 2003. In 2010, he was the subject of a major publication and two-part exhibition, *Arthur McIntyre: Bad blood 1960–2000* (Hazelhurst and Macquarie University). As well as a practicing artist, he wrote arts criticism and major books on contemporary Australian drawing and Australian collage, and taught and lectured on art in various NSW high schools, technical colleges and tertiary institutions. He participated in numerous residencies in France between 1975 and the early 1990s, and curated a number of exhibitions on drawing and collage at Holdsworth Galleries. Arthur McIntyre's work is held in the following collections: National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Artbank, and numerous private, corporate, university and regional gallery collections across Australia.

Daniel Mudie Cunningham (b. 1975) is an artist, curator, writer and lecturer who lives and works on Gadigal Country. With a career spanning three decades, his practice draws upon and remixes the image streams of art history, queer politics, pop culture, performance and music through video, photography and performance. In 2023, his work was the subject of the survey exhibition *Are You There?* curated by James Gatt at Wollongong Art Gallery. A comprehensive monograph will follow in 2024 with texts by Gatt, Judy Annear, Gary Carsley, José Da Silva, Helen Grace, Ann Finegan, Carrie Miller and Fiona Kelly McGregor. As curator and writer, his work has consistently engaged with queer performative art practices. Most recently as curator, he was guest co-artistic director of Liveworks for Performance Space (2023) and is the curator of Cementa (2024). He has written widely on contemporary Australian art and culture, and teaches at the National Art School.