Jessyca Hutchens is a Palyku woman living and working in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. She is currently the Curator at the Berndt Museum at the University of Western Australia, and she holds a post-doctoral research position at the Central European University in Vienna, working on the topic of repatriation. She has a DPhil in Art History from the University of Oxford and was previously the Curatorial Assistant to the Artistic Director for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, working on a landmark Indigenous-led edition titled NIRIN. Jessyca regularly writes on contemporary art and has been published in Third Text, Artlink, Art Collector, and Artist Profile, and is the founding editor of an online journal of artistic research, oarplatform.com(.)