Elspeth Pitt is Curator, Australian Art, at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, where she specialises in modern and contemporary Australian art, with a particular interest in conceptual performance and poetry practices, and has published widely in these fields. Pitt has curated major NGA exhibitions, including Know My Name: Australian women artists 1900 to now (2020, co-curator) and Mike Parr: Foreign looking (2016, co-curator), and co-edited the associated publications Know My Name and Mike Parr: Language and chaos. Other significant curatorial projects include Power & Imagination: Conceptual art 1966-1976 (2018), Alphabet / Haemorrhage Libretto (2016) and Always & Forever in Print: Contemporary Australian print culture (2015). Pitt has previously held curatorial, honorary research and sessional academic roles at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, the Australian National University, Canberra, and the Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum in London.
