Erin Vink, a Ngiyampaa woman, is assistant curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Previously, she was the inaugural Indigenous assistant curator of art at the Australian War Memorial. Her recent curatorial projects, include The National 2021: New Australian Art (2021), Longing for Home (2021), Wirura Kanyini (2020), and For Our Country (2019, co-curated with Toni Bailey). She is interested in addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s experience with Country, our relationship to it, and our inherent desire to defend it, along with the decolonisation and Indigenisation of art museums. She has written and featured in a number of catalogues and art magazines, including most recently “Daniel Boyd: Shadowing the Enlightenment” for Art Monthly Australasia and “The Great Australian Silence” in Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss. Erin is an alumni member of the prestigious National Gallery of Australia’s Indigenous Arts Leadership program supported by Wesfarmers Arts.