ArtWranglers represents artists, manages collections and exhibitions, and offers a range of services to the visual arts community in Canberra and beyond. This includes, collection management, database design, management and control, condition reporting, art authentication, provenance and significance statements, and specialist transportation and installation/display in the Canberra region. And no doubt many other things we haven’t yet thought about!

WILLAMEENA GENTLE is director of ArtWranglers Pty. Ltd. For the past year she has been Registrar of the Ergas Collection, and since 1998 has worked in various capacities in collection management at the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia and most recently at the Federal Parliament of Australia as Manager of Conservation Programs. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the ANU School of Art and is currently completing a Graduate Certificate in art Authentication through the University of Melbourne.

NIGEL LENDON is an advisor to ArtWranglers Pty. Ltd. He has worked as an artist, art historian and curator in the fields of minimalist and conceptual art, with a particular interest in the relation between tradition and innovation and a focus on collaborative and interdisciplinary practices. For the last fifteen years, Nigel has focused on the history and theory of Indigenous Australian art. With Wally Caruna he curated the landmark National Gallery of Australia exhibition The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story 1937-1997. Nigel’s interest in the nature of innovation in Indigenous arts has been established by this and other exhibitions including Abstractions and Synergies (both exhibitions mounted 2003, with Howard Morphy and others) and publications including the recent essay “Innovation and its Meanings” in No Ordinary Place: The Art Of David Malangi (Susan Jenkins, Editor, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2005). He is an Associate Head of the School of Art at the Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the National Gallery of Australian Foundation and a Founder Benefactor of the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. With Tim Bonyhady he currently holds an ARC Discovery Grant to research the war art of Afghanistan.