Gillian Brown is Curator at the University of South Australia's Samstag Museum of Art. Her projects there include solo exhibitions by Laurie Anderson, Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell and Fiona Tan, as well as group exhibitions Quicksilver: 25 years of Samstag Scholarships and Countercurrents. She is the curator of Louise Haselton's major exhibition like cures like.

Holding a Master of Arts (Studies in Art History) from the University of Adelaide, Brown is a co-founder and co-editor of the online arts writing platform fine print and a member of the editorial advisory committee for arts journal Artlink.