Adam Dutkiewicz was born in Adelaide in 1956. In 1997 he was awarded a scholarship by the University of South Australia to undertake a doctoral degree at the SA School of Art. From June 1992 - November 2005 he worked as art critic for The Advertiser newspaper, and also worked as a freelance critic for Business Review Weekly and Art Monthly Australia online and The Independent Weekly. He is co-author of Alexander Sadlo: Experimental Journey (2007/2023), Malcolm Carbins: Silent Depths (2010), and Abstract Photography: Re-evaluating Visual Poetics (2016); and author of A Matter of Mind: an Introduction to the Art of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz (2006); Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz: A Partisan for Art ( 2013); Brian Claridge: Architect of Light & Space (2010); Ludwik Dutkiewicz: Adventures in Art (2009), and Lidia Groblicka: Suburban Iconographer (2010); and Francis Roy Thompson: Painter of Grace & Rebellion (2014). As historian for the Royal SA Society of Arts (est.1856) he produced its 2-volume history.