Matthew Flowers Author

Susan Mansfield is a writer and journalist who has been writing widely about the arts and literature in Scotland for nearly thirty years. A features and arts writer for The Scotsman from 2001 until 2013, she was shortlisted for Interviewer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. Susan has been an art critic for The Scotsman since 2007. Her books include The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece (2013), and Victoria Crowe: 50 Years of Painting (2019).  Matthew Flowers is a London-based contemporary art dealer, directing Flowers Gallery since the 1980s. Representing international living artists and estates through its London, Hong Kong and New York bases, his gallery has staged more than 900 exhibitions and is a publisher of artist editions and monographs David Patterson is Curatorial and Conservation Manager with Edinburgh Museums and Galleries, based at the City Art Centre. He was formerly curator of fine art, responsible for the management and development of the City of Edinburgh’s ‘Recognized’ collection of Scottish art. He has over thirty years of exhibition curation experience, and has originated and toured exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe and to New Zealand.