Nicholas Evans
Co-author, 'The Heart of Everything'
Nicholas Evans is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. In addition to over one hundred articles or chapters on aspects of Aboriginal languages, he has written and edited some 10 books on linguistics, grammar writing and archeology. These include A grammar of Kayardild (1995), Kayardild Dictionary and Ethnothesaurus (2002) and A First Dictionary of Dalabon (with Francesca Merlan and Maggie Tukum (2004). His most recent book is Dying Words: Fragile Languages and What They Have To Tell Us (Blackwells, 2008). He has been involved in linguistic and anthropological work with the Kaiadilt community since 1982.
Louise Martin-Chew
Co-author, 'The Heart of Everything'
Louise Martin-Chew is a senior arts writer who has worked in the visual arts industry for over twenty years. She worked with the national touring agency Art Exhibitions Australia, 1986–1990 and was editorial manager of Art & Australia 1990–1992. Since, she has worked as a freelance writer based in Brisbane contributing regularly to The Australian, national art magazines, catalogues and books. She has written extensively on urban Aboriginal artists including Judy Watson, Fiona Foley, Richard Bell and Vernon Ah Kee as well as on the work of other indigenous artists including Dorothy Napangardi and Alick Tipoti.
Paul Memmott
Co-author, 'The Heart of Everything'
Associate Professor Paul Memmott originally trained as an artist and architect and branched into the research disciplines of people-environment studies and social anthropology. Since 1979, he has directed a multi-disciplinary consultancy practice in Aboriginal projects, providing culturally sensitive services to indigenous clients across Australia in both remote and urban contexts. He is the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, University of Queensland and is widely published. He has had a close affiliation with the Lardil, Kaiadilt, Yangkaal and other peoples of the Wellesley Islands since 1973, including as expert witness anthropologist in their Native Title sea claim in the early 2000s. He released Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia, through University of Queensland Press in 2007.
