Joanna Mendelssohn is Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne. A graduate of the University of Sydney, she began her career as curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of New South Wales before becoming a writer and later an academic at the College of Fine Arts (now UNSW: Art & Design). As well as teaching Australian art history, for many years she was also Program Director for the Master of Art Administration. The author of many books, including ‘The Life and Art of Sydney Long’, (McGraw-Hill 1979); ‘Lionel Lindsay: an artist and his family’ (Chatto & Windus 1988) and ‘Letters & Liars: Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay Family’ (Angus & Robertson 1996), she has also curated a number of exhibitions including Larter Family Values (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 2006) and wrote the catalogue for The Yellow House 1970-1972 (Art Gallery of New South Wales 1990). She has written art criticism for the Sydney Morning Herald, Independent, The Bulletin and Australian; and for many years has been a contributing editor to ArtLink.