Gwynneth Porter is a writer and editor from Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing essays on art since the mid-1990s, her practice has involved persistent experimentation with forms, methodologies and subject positions. With a long history of collaborations with artists in publication development and artist-led projects, she has a working background in art school teaching, visual arts publishing, and art museum curatorial and public programmes mahi. In 2020 she completed a PhD through Monash University in Melbourne’s Department of Art History and Theory with a thesis titled ‘Delinquent Palaces: Adolescent Museum Visitation in Literature’. She is currently Librarian at Christchurch Women’s Prison.