Lemonade welcomes Kit Kriewaldt into the role of Guest Editor throughout this March.

Kit Kriewaldt is an editor and writer. He has lived and worked in Australia, Germany, and Japan; writing, commissioning and editing for publications including Broadsheet, Time Out Tokyo, the ABC, Scenestr, Mixology, and Setouchi Architourism, a tourism website about the architecture of the Setouchi region.

Kit is also an Editorial Advisor for Lemonade.

We hope you enjoy Kit’s month of reviews.

Pitches, commentary and feedback continue to be welcomed to Louise Mayhew, Founding Editor, via editor@lemonadeletters.com.au

We join colleagues and friends in standing with artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives at the Venice Biennale 2026.

We urge the Board of Creative Australia to reconsider their decision and, as an organisation mandated to provide arms length funding, call for transparency regarding the Board’s resolution to retract support and the processes that led up to it.

Louise Mayhew, Founding Editor
Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Advisor
Kit Kriewaldt, Editorial Advisor
Carrie McCarthy, Editorial Advisor
Jonathan McBurnie, Regional Ambassador
Sarah Thomson, Regional Ambassador
Hannah Williamson, Regional Ambassador

After a yawning summer break, Lemonade is back for 2025. Stretching into this new year, I’m excited to be welcoming new faces and perspectives to Lemonade’s Advisory. 

Dr Melinda Mann is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman based in Rockhampton, Queensland. She has been the First Nations Art Officer at the Rockhampton Museum of Art since 2021, focusing on audience engagement, Indigenous programming and governance. Melinda is also an academic and researcher at Central Queensland University. Melinda will fill the new role of First Nations Advisor.

Carrie McCarthy⎯widely known by her handle @culturalflanerie⎯is a Meanjin (Brisbane)-based writer, curator and arts administrator, and the Collection Manager at Griffith University Art Museum. She is the co-editor of ‘Deborah Kelly: Creation’ (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2022), and was editorial assistant on the multi-award-winning ‘Richard Bell Reader’ publications for Documenta and Tate London (Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2022 and 2023). Her writing has been included in various publications such as Art Almanac, Artlines, The Big Smoke, Lemonade: Letters to Art, Mamamia, andVault Magazine. Carrie joins Kit Kriewaldt as Editorial Advisor.

Sarah Thomson is an artsworker and curator living on Butchulla Country. She is currently the Director of Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, leading a passionate team to deliver contemporary art exhibitions and contextually engaged programming in regional Queensland. Hannah Williamson is a curator based in South East Queensland. She is currently the curator at City of Moreton Bay where she curates the exhibition program for Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Redcliffe Art Gallery and Pine Rivers Art Gallery. Sarah and Hannah join Jonathan McBurnie as Regional Ambassadors.

Also new to Lemonade is Felix Cehak as mentor for emerging writers. In this role, Felix joins Emma McClean. My enduring thanks to Rosie Bird who keeps Lemonade’s website up and running.

I also extend my warmest thanks to outgoing Advisors Michelle Vine, Access and Inclusion; Louise Martin-Chew, Editorial;  Elliott Bledsoe, Marketing; and Madeline Brewer, Regional Ambassador. Thank you for the warmth and generosity of your expertise, your enthusiasm and encouragement, your collegiality and commitment to celebrating Queensland art. You have shaped and spurred Lemonade and I am so grateful to have worked with you.

The year ahead feels rich with possibilities. I am so looking forward to working with new writers, discovering and deepening my knowledge of regional practices, and hearing more from you, the readers. 

Warmest always, Louise