Linda Williams is a cultural historian and Emeritus Professor of RMIT University. She has published widely on histories of human¿animal relations and Western concepts of nature. She has curated several international exhibitions on climate change and multispecies imaginaries, and led an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Project Spatial Dialogues: Public Art & Climate Change which produced the co¿authored book Screen Ecologies: Art, Screen Culture and the Environment in the AsiäPacific Region (MIT Press, 2016). She currently leads the Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia ARC project with Saffron Aid and Greenpeace.

Helen McDonald is an art historian and curator, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her books are Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art (Routledge, 2001) and Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved (2012). Her recent co¿edited book is Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non¿Indigenous Art (Routledge, 2023) and her latest co¿edited journal special issue is Australian Art and Its Aboriginal Histories, Australian Historical Studies (2023). Her current research interests are rock art and climate change in a global context.