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Suad Al-Attar (b. 1940, Baghdad) is a contemporary Iraqi painter whose work is rooted in the visual traditions of the Middle East. She received her undergraduate education at Baghdad University and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and London Central School of Art and Design during the mid-1970s. Her works are held in the British Museum, London, and the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, though many of them once held in the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad have been lost.

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Francis Bacon was a figurative painter born in Dublin, Ireland known for his emotionally charged raw imagery and fixation on personal motifs. His immense reputation as one of the world’s leading artists has long surpassed his death in 1992.

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David Bailey was born in Leytonstone, London. After working as fashion photographer John French’s assistant, he published his first portrait of Somerset Maugham for Today magazine in 1960. He went on to photograph extensively for Vogue and has worked with some of the greatest names in fashion and music. Bailey has exhibited worldwide, with the first of his landmark exhibitions in 1971 at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Internationally renowned, Bailey has produced some of the most famous photographic portraits of the last five decades.

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Ingrid Beazley has worked in the education department of Dulwich Picture Gallery for over 15 years. Ingrid has won nine national and international awards for her work at Dulwich Picture Gallery including the Third Sector Excellence Award, Volunteer of the Year in 2006. In 2010 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her contributions to promoting the arts.

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Zarina Bhimji is an artist specialising in the mediums of photography and video installation. Her work is kept in collections around the world, including Tate Britain and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2007 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. She lives and works in London.

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Brian Clarke (b. 1953) was born in Oldham, England. He is an architectural artist and painter, best known for radically updating and innovating the medium of stained glass. Clarke is also widely celebrated for his painting, sculpture, mosaic and tapestry.

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Keith Cunningham (1929–2014) was born in Sydney, Australia. He worked as a graphic designer before moving to London in 1949 where he studied at the Central School of Design (1949–51, now Central Saint Martins) and the Royal College of Art (1952–55). Cunningham continued to paint, but kept his work private, until the end of his life. At the time of his death, his paintings were discovered at his flat in Battersea, and debuted in an exhibition at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London, 2022.

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Jeremy Deller is a London-based artist known for his orchestration of large-scale collaborative projects. Winner of the 2004 Turner Prize, Deller represented Great Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. In 2017 his event What Is the City but the People? opened the Manchester International Festival.

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Martin Eder was born in Augsburg in 1968. He trained as a commercial designer at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. He later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and Kassel before graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 2001. Martin Eder’s work is represented in major collections worldwide. He lives and works in Berlin.

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Simone Fattal was born in Damascus and grew up in Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the Ecole des Lettres, Beirut, and then at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 1969, she returned to Beirut and started painting, eventually fleeing in 1980 with the outbreak of the civil war. Having moved to California, Fattal founded The Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work. In 1988, she returned to artistic practice after enrolling at the Art Institute of San Francisco. Fattal’s oeuvre encompasses sculpture, ceramics, collage and painting. She lives and works in Paris, with her partner Etel Adnan.

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Liz Finch (b. 1951) is a British artist born in Blackburn in the north of England. She studied at Burnley School of Art in 1968 and the North Devon College of Art in Bideford in 1970. She works with a range of media incorporating drawing, painting, poetry and performance. Exhibitions include her pop-up show Crochet Nude (2005) at Tate Modern, London and A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense (2015) at Pace Gallery, London.

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Ralph Gibson was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1956 he enlisted in the Navy, where he began studying photography. He has been exhibited and published internationally. His work is held in public collections around the world, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He lives and works in New York.

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Gilbert Prousch was born in San Martin de Tor, Italy and George Passmore was born in Plymouth, England. They met in 1967 at Saint Martin’s School of Art when they formed their collective, Gilbert & George. They won the Turner Prize in 1986 and are known around the world for their relentlessly controversial art. Gilbert & George represented the UK in the British Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. The duo has been awarded doctorates from a number of UK universities and were elected Royal Academicians by the Royal Academy of the Arts, London in 2017. They have lived and worked on the same street in London’s East End since 1968.

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Conor Harrington was born in Cork, Ireland in 1980. In his mid-teens he painted his first wall on the streets of his hometown, and after completing a BA in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design he relocated to London. Now equally synonymous with both large-scale studio compositions and outdoor murals, his provocative, dreamlike work draws a fascinating line between the street and the canvas.

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Martin Harrison is the foremost authority on Francis Bacon. He has curated numerous exhibitions around the world and written widely on art and photography. Most notable among his many publications is the Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited in close collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon.

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Edwin Heathcote is a writer living and working in London. He has been the architecture and design critic at the Financial Times since 1999 and is the author of over a dozen books including The Meaning of Home.

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Luisa Heese is a writer and curator based in Germany. She has written widely on the work of contemporary artists and has worked on many curatorial projects.

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Damien Hirst is a British artist whose name has become synonymous with contemporary art. Since his generative work as a student at Goldsmiths School of Art, Hirst’s production has been boundary‐redefining in nature. Working primarily in installation, painting, sculpture and drawing, Hirst explores the complex relationships between art, beauty, religion, science, life and death.

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Koo Jeong A was born in Seoul, South Korea. Her work spans various media including drawing, sculpture, installation, audio works and architecture. She has had a number of solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Her work is featured in the public collections of Tate Modern, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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Tommy Kane has worked as a creative director in advertising for over 35 years. Over that time he has cultivated a very particular obsession with squirrels and a catharsis in documenting his surroundings in his sketchbooks with his humble weapon of choice – the Uni-ball Vision Fine Point pen.

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Lucy Liu is an award-winning actress and an artist from New York. She exhibited her first museum show at the National Museum of Singapore in 2018.

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MadC (Claudia Walde, b. 1980) is a world-renowned visual graffiti artist, muralist and designer. She was born in Bautzen, Germany and is best known for her large-scale murals of vivid colours and bold lines.

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Shantell Martin is a British visual artist best known for her signature black and white small and large-scale drawings. She has had solo shows at The New Britain Museum of Art, 92Y Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York. Martin has collaborated with iconic brands such as Nike, Max Mara, Tiffany & Co. as well as with New York City Ballet and Kendrick Lamar for Miami Art Basel. Martin is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch ITP and a visiting scholar at MIT Media Lab. She lives and works in Jersey City and Los Angeles.

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Mary McCartney focuses on discovering those rare moments of unguarded intimacy that offer new insights into her photographic subjects. Her work in portraiture and candid reportage photography is suffused with a deep personal investment that captures the creative chemistry between photographer and subject. Her book Twelfth Night was published by HENI in 2016.

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Blondey is a British artist, skateboarder, clothing designer and model living in London. He is creative director of fashion brand Thames and represented by the Kate Moss Agency. His work engages with popular culture as a means of communicating self, society and an interpretation and representation of modern day religion. He has collaborated with brands such as Arena Homme+, Adidas, Palace, and Burberry, among others. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world.

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Annette Messager (b. 1943) is internationally recognised as one of the most influential and important artists working today. She was born in Northern France in 1943 and attended the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Messager has been the subject of countless museum exhibitions around the world, including recent shows at the Institut Giacometti in Paris (2018), the Institut Valencia Art Modern (IVAM) in Spain (2018), the Villa Medici in Rome (2017) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2014).

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Sabine Moritz is an artist based in Cologne, Germany. Her paintings, works on paper and prints have been widely exhibited in museums throughout Europe, celebrating a distinct practice that combines highly personal approach to abstraction combined with figurative works inspired by documentary photographs, memory and an investigation of genre painting.

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Philippe Parreno lives and works in Paris, France. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble and the Insitut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He works in a diverse range of media including film, sculpture, drawing and text, through which ideas relating to time and duration permeate.

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Eugénie Paultre (b. in Paris in 1979, lives in Paris and Normandy) studied then taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, and since 2010 she has devoted herself to painting and writing. She is the author of numerous essays, novellas and poetry collections in English, German, and French published at Al Manar and Manuella Editions, Paris. Matter of Life is the second publication HENI Publishing, London, has dedicated to Paultre, following the release of Outline in 2018. Paultre has held solo exhibitions at the Institut français, Bratislava (2019), Gandy Gallery, Bratislava (2019) and Erna Hecey, Luxembourg (2020). She has recently taken part in group exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli (2017), Mudam, Luxembourg (2019) and Lévy Gorvy, Paris (2021).

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Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) was an American painter best known for modernist realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in Realist art. Pearlstein has written many articles for major art journals and his contribution to contemporary art is acknowledged by his many awards and honours. His paintings are held in collections of over 70 public art museums including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Germany. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and then the Düsseldorf Art Academy. His work has been the subject of exhibitions internationally, including touring retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Tate, London, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. Richter has experimented with sculpture, photography, drawing and, notably, painting.

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Kai Schäfer is an artist from Germany. In his series ‘worldrecords’ he combines his two passions photography and music. This work has been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Will Scott is a photographer and filmmaker specialising in architectural subjects. Ongoing photographic projects include Seaside Shelters and The Architecture of the Underground. Scott’s photography has been featured in the Financial Times and on the BBC website. He is based in London and Edinburgh.

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Bruno Serralongue (b. 1968) has developed a distinctive body of work that questions the truth of photographic representation and how images are produced, disseminated and circulated in contemporary contexts. He pursues traces of media events that marked key moments in regions facing geopolitical changes: global economic and social forums, celebrations of new independent nations such as Kosovo and South Sudan in the aftermaths of civil wars, strikes and labour conflicts. Instead of seeking spectacular images of these events in the voyeuristic and dramatic style of the photojournalists, Serralongue captures angles normally excluded from the mainstream media’s framing of ‘reality’ and surmounts considerable difficulties to cover events in his independent manner. Through images such as campfires in the campsite of striking workers at the New Fabris factory in Châtellerault, France, Serralongue symbolizes rage and determination in the face of exploitation and oppression.

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Nesma Shubber is a writer and art historian born in London. She gained a first class BA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art before spending two years in New York studying at The New School. She also holds a masters degree in Literature and Arts from the University of Oxford.

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Robert Storr is a renowned art critic, curator and artist. He has written widely on art and has interviewed some of the world’s leading artists. Storr’s writing has appeared in countless books and exhibition catalogues as well as in Art in America, Artforum, Parkett and ARTnews. He has curated exhibitions internationally and was the first American-born Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist is a world-renowned curator and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Alongside his curatorial practice, Obrist has written extensively on and around contemporary art, with a particular interest in the interview format.

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Harriet Vyner lives between London and Yorkshire. She is the author of Among Ruins, the co-author of Jools Holland’s autobiography Bare Faced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts, and the co-curator of the exhibition A Strong Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser at Pace London, 2015.

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Stephen Webster is an English jewellery designer based in London. He has won UK Jewellery Designer of the Year numerous times and in 2013 was awarded an MBE for services to the British jewellery industry. Working from his studio in Mayfair, Webster sells his work internationally to a number of high profile and celebrity clients. His unique style of design reflects a myriad of influences, from his punk background to his literary heroes.

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Cathy Wilkes was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008, and was awarded the inaugural Maria Lassing Prize in 2016, a biennial award to honour the achievements of mid-career artists. She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; the Modern Institute, Glasgow; Tate, Liverpool; Kunstverein, Munich and Studio Voltaire, London. Wilkes lives and works in Glasgow.

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Craig Wood was born in 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He completed his Foundation Course at Dyfed College of Art (1985–86), in Carmarthen, Wales, and studied Fine Art at Goldsmith College of Art, London (1986–89). He currently lives and works in Wales.

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Francis Bacon was a figurative painter born in Dublin, Ireland known for his emotionally charged raw imagery and fixation on personal motifs. His immense reputation as one of the world’s leading artists has long surpassed his death in 1992.

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Ingrid Beazley has worked in the education department of Dulwich Picture Gallery for over 15 years. Ingrid has won nine national and international awards for her work at Dulwich Picture Gallery including the Third Sector Excellence Award, Volunteer of the Year in 2006. In 2010 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her contributions to promoting the arts.

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Brian Clarke (b. 1953) was born in Oldham, England. He is an architectural artist and painter, best known for radically updating and innovating the medium of stained glass. Clarke is also widely celebrated for his painting, sculpture, mosaic and tapestry.

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Jeremy Deller is a London-based artist known for his orchestration of large-scale collaborative projects. Winner of the 2004 Turner Prize, Deller represented Great Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. In 2017 his event What Is the City but the People? opened the Manchester International Festival.

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Simone Fattal was born in Damascus and grew up in Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the Ecole des Lettres, Beirut, and then at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 1969, she returned to Beirut and started painting, eventually fleeing in 1980 with the outbreak of the civil war. Having moved to California, Fattal founded The Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work. In 1988, she returned to artistic practice after enrolling at the Art Institute of San Francisco. Fattal’s oeuvre encompasses sculpture, ceramics, collage and painting. She lives and works in Paris, with her partner Etel Adnan.

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Ralph Gibson was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1956 he enlisted in the Navy, where he began studying photography. He has been exhibited and published internationally. His work is held in public collections around the world, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He lives and works in New York.

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Conor Harrington was born in Cork, Ireland in 1980. In his mid-teens he painted his first wall on the streets of his hometown, and after completing a BA in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design he relocated to London. Now equally synonymous with both large-scale studio compositions and outdoor murals, his provocative, dreamlike work draws a fascinating line between the street and the canvas.

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Edwin Heathcote is a writer living and working in London. He has been the architecture and design critic at the Financial Times since 1999 and is the author of over a dozen books including The Meaning of Home.

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Damien Hirst is a British artist whose name has become synonymous with contemporary art. Since his generative work as a student at Goldsmiths School of Art, Hirst’s production has been boundary‐redefining in nature. Working primarily in installation, painting, sculpture and drawing, Hirst explores the complex relationships between art, beauty, religion, science, life and death.

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Tommy Kane has worked as a creative director in advertising for over 35 years. Over that time he has cultivated a very particular obsession with squirrels and a catharsis in documenting his surroundings in his sketchbooks with his humble weapon of choice – the Uni-ball Vision Fine Point pen.

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MadC (Claudia Walde, b. 1980) is a world-renowned visual graffiti artist, muralist and designer. She was born in Bautzen, Germany and is best known for her large-scale murals of vivid colours and bold lines.

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Mary McCartney focuses on discovering those rare moments of unguarded intimacy that offer new insights into her photographic subjects. Her work in portraiture and candid reportage photography is suffused with a deep personal investment that captures the creative chemistry between photographer and subject. Her book Twelfth Night was published by HENI in 2016.

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Annette Messager (b. 1943) is internationally recognised as one of the most influential and important artists working today. She was born in Northern France in 1943 and attended the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Messager has been the subject of countless museum exhibitions around the world, including recent shows at the Institut Giacometti in Paris (2018), the Institut Valencia Art Modern (IVAM) in Spain (2018), the Villa Medici in Rome (2017) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2014).

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Philippe Parreno lives and works in Paris, France. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble and the Insitut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He works in a diverse range of media including film, sculpture, drawing and text, through which ideas relating to time and duration permeate.

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Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) was an American painter best known for modernist realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in Realist art. Pearlstein has written many articles for major art journals and his contribution to contemporary art is acknowledged by his many awards and honours. His paintings are held in collections of over 70 public art museums including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Kai Schäfer is an artist from Germany. In his series ‘worldrecords’ he combines his two passions photography and music. This work has been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Bruno Serralongue (b. 1968) has developed a distinctive body of work that questions the truth of photographic representation and how images are produced, disseminated and circulated in contemporary contexts. He pursues traces of media events that marked key moments in regions facing geopolitical changes: global economic and social forums, celebrations of new independent nations such as Kosovo and South Sudan in the aftermaths of civil wars, strikes and labour conflicts. Instead of seeking spectacular images of these events in the voyeuristic and dramatic style of the photojournalists, Serralongue captures angles normally excluded from the mainstream media’s framing of ‘reality’ and surmounts considerable difficulties to cover events in his independent manner. Through images such as campfires in the campsite of striking workers at the New Fabris factory in Châtellerault, France, Serralongue symbolizes rage and determination in the face of exploitation and oppression.

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Robert Storr is a renowned art critic, curator and artist. He has written widely on art and has interviewed some of the world’s leading artists. Storr’s writing has appeared in countless books and exhibition catalogues as well as in Art in America, Artforum, Parkett and ARTnews. He has curated exhibitions internationally and was the first American-born Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale.

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Harriet Vyner lives between London and Yorkshire. She is the author of Among Ruins, the co-author of Jools Holland’s autobiography Bare Faced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts, and the co-curator of the exhibition A Strong Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser at Pace London, 2015.

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Cathy Wilkes was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008, and was awarded the inaugural Maria Lassing Prize in 2016, a biennial award to honour the achievements of mid-career artists. She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; the Modern Institute, Glasgow; Tate, Liverpool; Kunstverein, Munich and Studio Voltaire, London. Wilkes lives and works in Glasgow.