Eliza Bonham Carter

Royal Academy Schools

Eliza Bonham Carter is Curator and Head of the Royal Academy Schools, a position she has held since 2006. She is also Vice Chair of Camden Arts Centre. Bonham Carter’s work normally takes the form of painting, but on going to China she took the opportunity to take steps into digital and image-based media, recording a train journey across China at 300km an hour from East to West. Bonham Carter studied fine art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and completed her MA at the Royal College of Art.

Anthony Gardner

The Ruskin School of Art

Anthony Gardner is Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen’s College. He is also a foreign worker in the UK. His research explores the intersections of contemporary art and politics, with particular emphasis on installation, performance, exhibitions and cultural Politically infrastructures. His books include Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art Against (MIT Press, 2015); the Democracy Neue Slowenische Kunst: From anthology (MIT Press, 2015), with Kapital To Capital Zdenka Badovinac and Eda Čufer; and Biennials, Triennials and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), co-written with Charles Green.

David Mabb

Goldsmiths College

David Mabb works with appropriated imagery to rethink the political implications of different aesthetic forms in modern art and design history. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Bildmuseet, Umea (2016-17); Z33, Hasselt (2017); and Konstmuseum, Malmö (2018). Solo exhibitions include the William Morris Gallery, London (2015); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2014); and Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington (2010). Mabb teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Reader in Art and Programme Co-Director MFA Fine Art.

Martin Newth

Chelsea College of Arts

Martin Newth is an artist and Programme Director of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. He studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Fine Art. Primarily using photography, but also video and nstallation, Newth explores the processes by which works are made and the material properties of photography. Solo and group exhibitions include MEWO Kunsthalle,Germany (2018); Chongqing Creative Festival, Chongqing (2016); Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2013); George and Jørgen, London (2011); Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin (2008); and Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2007).

Kieren Reed

Slade School of Fine Art

Kieren Reed’s practice encompasses sculpture, public art, performance and installation, from studies in form to the production of architectural structures. His art is often linked to a process, place or a consideration of a space or situation. Recent projects include Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2016); Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury (2015); Tate Modern, London (2014); Tate Britain, London (2013); Whitstable Biennial (2012); and Camden Arts Centre, London (2010). Reed works both individually and in collaboration with the artist Abigail Hunt. He is Director at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Alex Schady

Central Saint Martins

Alex Schady playfully challenges romantic notions of the artist and creativity through sculpture, video and performance. Drawing on pop culture, melodrama and science fiction his practice investigates constructions of masculinity and emotional excess, as well as how seemingly incompatible media can coexist. In 1998 Schady co-founded the gallery space Five Years to explore the relationship between programming, curation and practice. He received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art and a MFA in Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University, and is currently director of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.

Jo Stockham

Royal College of Art

Jo Stockham is Professor and Head of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Her practice is installation-based, often dealing with the histories of a site, using sculpture, sound projection, found materials and digital technologies. In 1989 she was Henry Moore Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, which led to solo shows at Kettle’s Yard and Camden Arts Centre. More recently she has exhibited at Matt’s Gallery, London (2018); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2017); Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (2017); and Arnolfini, Bristol (1998). Stockham studied Painting at Falmouth School of Art and holds a Master’s degree in Sculpture from Chelsea College of Arts.