Lina Iris Viktor
Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian-British multidisciplinary artist who lives and works between Italy and the UK. Working across media, Viktor’s art is a synthesis of painting, sculpture, performance, photography and water gilding with 24- carat gold. Viktor received her BA in film at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography as continuing education at The School of Visual Arts, in New York. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Fotografiska Museum of Photography, Stockholm & Tallinn (2020); Autograph, London (2019); and New Orleans Museum of Art (2018), among others. She has been included in group exhibitions at institutions including the Hayward Gallery, London (2022); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2020); Somerset House, London (2019); Ford Foundation, New York (2019); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (2018); Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville (2016); Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2016); and Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge (2016).
Louise Stewart
Louise Stewart is a curator, writer and art-historian. As Head of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum, she has oversight of an inspiring programme of historic and contemporary exhibitions. She has worked closely with artists and designers including Lina Iris Viktor, Pablo Bronstein, Bouke de Vries, Nayan Kulkarni and Grafton Architects.
Ekow Eshun
Described by Vogue as ‘the most inspired - and inspiring - curator in Britain’, Ekow Eshun is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing Britain’s foremost public art programme, and the author of books including The Strangers and Black Gold of the Sun, shortlisted for the Orwell prize.
Ben Okri
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, aphorist, playwright, writer of film-scripts and cultural activist. His writing challenges perceptions of reality. He won the Booker Prize in 1991 and was knighted in 2023 for services to Literature.