Erin Vink is a highly experienced Ngiyampaa curator and writer, living and working on Gadigal land, where she is Curator, First Nations art (local and global) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Her practice is concerned with interrogating the intersectionality of contemporary Indigenous art between Australian First Nations peoples and global Indigenous kin working across the Great Ocean region. She leads the development of a new collection area for the Art Gallery focused on the rise of the global Indigenous, with particular focus on global Indigenous diaspora living and working within Australia.  Erin also currently serves as the Chair of Art Monthly Australasia (2021 –) and leads the magazine’s current reimagining into a journal for Indigenous arts, relaunching in 2025. Vink is an alumnus of the National Gallery of Australia’s prestigious Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Leadership program. She holds a Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship (Hons) from the Australian National University. Her writing has been published extensively, nationally and internationally.

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