Esther Anatolitis

Esther Anatolitis is Editor of Meanjin and the recent anthology Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today (Melbourne University Publishing, 2024). Esther is Hon A/Prof at RMIT School of Art, serves the board of the National Gallery of Australia, and is Co-Chair of the Australian Republic Movement.

For over two decades Esther has led arts and media organisations across all artforms and practice modes, and her consultancy Test Pattern has worked with creative and government bodies all over Australia on policy, strategy and place.

Her collaborative projects Architecture+Philosophy, Independent Convergence and her full-day MPavilion events have worked with artists across disciplines to facilitate new modes of practice development. A prolific writer, Esther’s commentary, essays and book chapters have been published in un Magazine, The Relationship is the Project, The Emerging Writer, Permanent Recession, The Guardian, The Age, Crikey, Overland and Meanjin; most recently, her essay ‘The content mindset at the end of culture’ was published in Griffith Review № 88.

Esther is the author of Place, Practice, Politics (Spurbuchverlag 2021) and When Australia Became a Republic (Monash University Publishing, forthcoming 2025).