Adam Dutkiewicz is the art critic for The Independent Weekly. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of South Australia in 2001 and has worked as an art critic for the Advertiser, Business Review Weekly and Art Monthly Australia online. He was a contributing author for the monograph Franz Kempf: Thinking on paper and author of the monographs titled Mervyn Smith: Watercolours and, on his father, A Matter of Mind: An introduction to the art of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz (1918-1999).