Dr Alex Burchmore is an art historian specialising in the study of Chinese art, past and present, with a broader focus on travel and mobility, trade and exchange, and interactions of the personal and material. His career in academia and the arts has encompassed a wide range of roles, including curatorial and provenance research, publication management for the globally distributed arts magazine Art Monthly Australasia, and his tenure as a Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney from 2021 until 2023.