Hannah Fink

Hannah Fink is an art historian, writer and editor. She is the author of Strange Things: Bronwyn Oliver (‘an exemplary biography’, Martin Edmonds; ‘page-turningly seductive’, Peter Hill). Her book on the artist Rosalie Gascoigne and the astronomer Ben Gascoigne will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2025. 

She was editor of Art and Australia and a founding editor of Art AsiaPacific and has written for numerous scholarly and literary books and journals. She is editor, with Hetti Perkins, of Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, 2001, and, with Steven Miller, Recent Past: Writing Australian Art, 2020, described as ‘an instant classic’ (Ann Stephen, Art Monthly) and ‘essential reading’ (Julie Ewington, ABR). 

Many of her essays have been republished, in particular Living Elegy: An online death (Meanjin 1999) in The Best Australian Essays 1999; Sydney Morning Herald 2000; Gas and Air (Bloomsbury) 2002; Guardian (UK) 2002; Meanjin Anthology (MUP, 2012).