Lesley Harding is a curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art. She has held curatorial positions at the Arts Centre, Melbourne and National Art School, Sydney, and regularly publishes and lectures on modernist and contemporary Australian art. Her work has appeared in Art and Australia, Art Monthly Australia, Artlink and Meanjin. She has written several books on Australian art and social history, including Cubism and Australian Art (with Sue Cramer) and Sunday's Kitchen: Food and Living at Heide, Sunday's Garden: Growing Heide and Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed (all with Kendrah Morgan). In 2016 she published Margaret Preston: Recipes for Food and Art.