Ingrid Swenson Author

Ingrid Swenson MBE was Director of the influential and community-based independent art platform PEER from 1998 until 2021. She was awarded the MBE in 2018 for services to the arts in East London. Fedja Klikovac is a Montenegrin artist and art historian and, more recently, a gallerist and curator. He is the Director of Handel Street Projects, a London-based platform for new British and international contemporary art. Dame Phyllida Barlow RA is a British sculptor and professor emerita of the Slade School of Art, where she taught for over 40 years. She represented Great Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale and was awarded a DBE in 2021 for services to art. Richard Deacon RA is one of the UK's leading sculptors, and taught in art schools in the UK and abroad from 1977-1992. The Welsh-born artist won the Turner Prize in 1987 and represented Wales at the 2007 Venice Biennale. He was given a CBE in 1999, having been previously awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Dr Ješa Denegri is a widely published Serbian art historian and critic. Born in what is now Croatia, he worked as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade from 1965-1991, after which he served as a Professor of Philosophy. Joan Key is an artist, curator and writer living and working in London. Primarily known as a painter and printmaker, she has recently collaborated with musicians, composers and animators.