Janet Mansfield has been a potter for more than 40 years. After her training in ceramics at the National Art School. ESTC, in 1964, 65, she has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. She is represented in most major public collections in Australia and her work has appeared in many publications throughout the world. She has been an invited participant in symposiums, conferences and as a juror in many countries. A member of the International Academy of Ceramics since 1982 and currently president, Janet Mansfield has received a number of awards for ceramics since 1986. In 1987 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to art. In 1990 she received the Emeritus Award for art from the Australia Council. She has also received a number of Lifetime Achievement awards from the US, the UK, and in 2004 she was awarded a Doctor of Letters from the University of Tasmania She has written a number of books on ceramics. She was publisher/editor of the journals Ceramics: Art and Perception and CeramicsTechnical, international publications of high quality and is now publishing books on ceramics under the name Mansfield Press. For many years she has worked in the salt-glaze and wood firing ceramics aesthetic, giving workshops and lecturing internationally on this subject.

Inspired by his childhood home in the Coorong, as well as his current home in the Adelaide Hills, Jeffery Mincham's work has had a resounding impact on the contemporary studio ceramic movement in Australia.

Mincham undertook 5 years of formal training under such luminaries as Milton Moon and Les Blakebrough, and first exhibited in 1976. In 2009 he was instated with the title of 'Living Treasure' through Craft Australia, and in 2011 was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Mincham's work has a recognizable landscape quality which is inspired mainly from his view from his studio, the weather patturns, seasons and farming lands nearby. He is mostly known for his hand built clay bodies and multi-fired glazes that paint a literal or abstracted sense of landscape across or around the form. He sometimes employs deep textural marks that hint at the landscape they are inspired by, and his palette meanders from deep copper greens, rusty reds and soft creams, with contrasting pockets of black.

Paul Scott is an artist, author and educator known for pioneering research into the graphic development of vitreous surfaces. His characteristic artworks can be found in public spaces and collections around the globe. He is Professor of Ceramic Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) Norway, and has recently been appointed Digital Research Fellow at Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design. 

Dr Robert Bell AM has been Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the National Gallery of Australia since 2000, responsible for contributing to its policy, collection development, exhibitions and research programs in Australian and international decorative arts, craft and design. Born in Perth, WA he holds a PhD from the Australian National University and writes and lectures regularly on crafts, design and the decorative arts. He was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to the decorative arts in Australia (2003); the Australia Council Visual Art Board Emeritus Medal for service to the crafts in Australia (2005); and made a member of the Order of Australia for services to craft, design and museums (2010). He is Patron of Craft ACT, Adjunct Professor of Design in the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts and Design and an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics.