2022

Birgitta Hosea is a time-based media artist working with expanded animation and experimental drawing to create durational images, live performances, experiential installations and short films that expand the concept of animation out of the screen and into the present moment. Included in the Tate Britain and Centre d’Arte Contemporain archives, she has received an Adobe Impact Award, a MAMA Award for Holographic Arts and an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society of the Arts. Currently Professor of Moving Image at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, she was previously Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art. She has written a number of publications on performance drawing and experimental animation.

An Irish director known for his unique style, Johnny Kelly was a graphic designer before embarking on an MA in animation at London’s Royal College of Art. Working with Nexus Studios, Johnny has directed commercials and other miscellany for brands such as Apple, Facebook, Google, BMW, and Coca-Cola. Johnny garnered the Grand Prix for Film at Cannes Lions for his Chipotle film “Back to the Start” and he’s a proud member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. Nothing however has topped the Ronald McDonald toothbrush and cup he won for a colouring competition in 1984.

Edwin Rostron is an artist, animator and curator based in London. He runs Edge of Frame, a blog and ongoing programme of screening events focusing on experimental animation, and teaches on the Animation MA Programme at the Royal College of Art. His work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally, and he has curated programmes for festivals such as London International Animation Festival and Flatpack Festival, and for Barbican, BFI and Whitechapel Gallery.

Saad Eddine Said is a curator who initiates and builds bridges and creative partnerships between local communities, artists, activists, social entrepreneurs, innovators, cultural organisations and governmental institutions. His work focuses on co-creating impactful and artistic takeovers that are aimed at re-thinking, re-imagining and re-shaping the structure and future of institutions and communities in towns and cities nationally and internationally. Saad Eddine Said is the Co-Founder and previous Co-Artistic Director of the charity Terre Sans Frontiere (Morocco) and worked as the Director of HOME Slough (UK). Saad has recently taken the position as Artistic Director and CEO of New Art Exchange.

Liz Moreton is Director of Creativity and Social Change at Battersea Arts Centre. She has spent the last fifteen years developing programmes which use art and culture for social transformation. Liz set up The Co-Creating Change Network – a network of over 100 people who are exploring the role artists and cultural organisations can play with community partners to co-create social change in the UK. Liz co-leads The Agency a National partnership programme, running for eight years, which uses a creative process developed in the favelas of Rio to support young people from underserved areas of England, Wales and Northern Ireland to develop their own social initiatives for change.

Kate is Director of Kate Pakenham Productions, an independent production and creative/executive consultancy company working across the commercial and not-for-profit theatre sectors. Kate has a particular interest in artists and story-telling that challenges the status quo, and believes in the power of great theatre to make positive cultural change. Recent productions include Kaleider’s THE MONEY at County Hall (2021); the transfer of The Gate Theatre, Dublin’s production of HAMLET, starring Ruth Negga, to St Ann’s Warehouse, NY (2020); and the Olivier-Award winning, EMILIA, by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (2019). Consultancy clients include Digital Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Dublin, The Kiln, The National Theatre and The Space. She is on the Board of Sheffield Theatres.