2025

Holly Blakey’s work straddles the worlds of live performance and film.

Interweaving live and commercial contexts, much of her practice often plays on the relationship between these distinct but not wholly separable worlds. Blakey’s work as a Director and Choreographer has featured collaborations with music artists and fashion houses such as Burberry, Dior, Gucci, Rosalia, Harry Styles and Florence and the Machine. Blakey is a recipient of a UK MVA award for her work on Delilah (Florence and the Machine) for ‘Best Choreography in a Video’. That same year she was also nominated as ‘Best New Director’. After the world premiere of ‘Cowpuncher’ (2018) - a commission to reopen Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Blakey presented ‘Cowpuncher My Ass’ (2020), a sequel to the previous, costumed by Vivienne Westwood and scored by Mica Levi. The show and its sequels ran for five years, closing to a sold out Royal Festival Hall with accompaniment from a twenty piece string orchestra from London Contemporary Orchestra.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. From its risible title onwards, it literally writhes with self-loathing and misanthropy. This is frenzy without rapture, sexuality without pleasure, speed without exhilaration. It shoots from the conservatoire to the strip club, the ballet to the rave to the mosh pit. I can’t wait for what Holly Blakey does next.” The Guardian

In the autumn of 2023 Blakeys was commissioned by Balletboyz for their Sadler's Wells premier of England on Fire. Her work sat amongst 40 of the UK’s most ambitious creatives and continued her collaborations with musician and partner Gwilym Gold, who’s work together has realised ‘Phantom’ (2021), ‘Triptych’ (2021), a film commission from The Estate of Francis Bacon, ‘graciechesterbeckyjonnynaomisakeematylor’ (2021) in collaboration with Jeremy Deller and more recently the development of a new live work, A Wound With Teeth to be premiered in 2026.

Sir Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer and director. He is Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor, a creative nexus that pushes the frontiers of physical intelligence through dance, design and technology. Wayne’s work is rooted in dance, yet encompasses a variety of genres including technology, visual art, film, opera and education, as well as Company Wayne McGregor, his own touring company of dancers.

Wayne McGregor is Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet, the first and only choreographer from a contemporary dance background to be invited into the role. There he has created 18 works that reconfigure the classical language, from Chroma, winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, to Woolf Works, based on the life and writings of Virginia Woolf. He has works in the repertories of companies around the world, including Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. He has choreographed for theatre (Old Vic, National Theatre, Royal Court), opera (La Scala/Royal Opera House Dido and Aeneas, Acis and Galatea), film (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sing, Mary Queen of Scots), music videos (Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers), fashion (Nick Knight for SHOWstudio, Soma for COS, Gareth Pugh at London Fashion Week), campaigns (Selfridges, Boots No 7) and TV.

Wayne McGregor is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. McGregor's work has earned him a multitude of awards including two Time Out Awards, two Olivier Awards, a Prix Benois de la Danse and two Golden Mask awards.

Wayne McGregor has a First class honours degree from Leeds University, an Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth University, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from University of Leeds, Honorary Doctorates from UAL and University of Chester (2019) and is part of the Circle of Cultural Fellows at King’s College London. In 2017 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association.

Wayne is also an Ambassador of the Arts Foundation and a past Fellow in Choreography, 1994.

Freddie Opoku-Addaie is an International award-winning Dance Artist/Curator/Lecturer. Freddie was Guest Programmer for Dance Umbrella during a three-year initiative from 2016-2019. His Out Of The System programme presented exhilarating work by dance practitioners from the UK and abroad. Freddie is founder, director and CEO of ‘SystemsLAB’ (2016), a platform that offers slack-time for multi-faceted, mid-career artists, invaluable in raising important questions about contemporary dance within and beyond the western cannon, its framing and voices within the industry.

Freddie Opoku-Addaie is Artistic Director and co-CEO at Dance Umbrella - London’s International annual dance Festival.

Sarah Douglas is a consultant at the Steve Jobs Archive, an agent for Martino Gamper, and an advisor to brands and cultural institutions. She was previously at Wallpaper* for 16 years as Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director, and prior to that Art Editor at The Architects’ Journal. Sarah is committed to supporting the next generation of creative talent, has hosted talks and panel discussions around the world, and judged numerous international design competitions including the London Design Medal.

Satoshi is Creative Director of Universal Design Studio, an architecture and interior design studio based in London and New York. Satoshi heads up Universal Design Studio's New York studio and has overseen award-winning projects in the retail, innovation and cultural realm.

Satoshi takes a keen interest in diverse projects which break the boundaries between architecture, interior, spatial experience and product design. His work spans the globe, with all projects having a keen focus on reimagining human experiences through the lens of design. Seminal projects include Cannes Lions award winner, “Looop”; a space that showcased a retail experience of the future with garment to garment recycling at its core. The exhibition, “Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?" explored the connection between graphic design and the healthcare industry. Presently, he is leading the team crafting new archetypes of IBM's world changing quantum computing technology.
Previous notable client work includes British Airways, Design Museum, Wellcome Trust, Biotherm, J&M Davidson, and Selfridges.

Satoshi has over a decade of teaching experience, and was most recently shaping the next generation of the Architecture Masters Programme at the Royal College of Art.

Prof. Adrian Lahoud is Dean, School of Architecture and Fellow at the Royal College of Art. He sits on the board of the Architecture Foundation, Design Museum Future Observatory, New Architecture Writers, the Arabic cultural platform Ma3azef, and was Convenor and Co-Chair of the Rights of Future Generation Working Group. Prior to his role at RCA, he was director of the MA programme at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths and Studio Master in the Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the Architectural Association. In 2019 he curated the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the first major international platform for architecture and urbanism in the global south. His research work is focused on architecture and urbanism in the global south.

Joanna Hogg is a British director and screenwriter. She started her career as a photographer and then after fifteen years directing television drama, wrote and directed her first feature film Unrelated (2008). She followed this with six more feature films; Archipelago (2010), Exhibition (2013), The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir Part II (2021) and The Eternal Daughter (2022). She is currently preparing her next film to be shot in Los Angeles in 2025.

Peter Suschitzky is a film cinematographer and photographer. Peter was born in London and attended film school in Paris at IDHEC, now La Fémis (FEMIS). Peter started his career as a cinematographer, aged 21 by shooting documentaries during a year in Latin America. He shot his first movie in London, called ‘It Happened Here’ which imagined a Britain occupied by the Germans during WW2.

Peter continued to shoot movies, such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Empire Strikes Back and eleven films with David Cronenberg as well as Mars Attacks with Tim Burton and Tale of Tales with Mateo Garrone.

In parallel with his work as a cinematographer, Peter has always followed his passion for classical music and for making photographs. Peter is currently preparing a book, showing the work of the four photographers in his family - his aunt, Edith Tudor Hart, his father, Wolfgang Suschitzky, and his own photographs and those of his son, Adam, spanning one hundred years of photography!

Claudia Yusef is Commissioning Executive at BBC Film. She has Executive Produced a number of features and shorts for BBC Film including Clio Barnard’s ALI & AVA; PRAY, novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut short as a director; THE END WE START FROM, the debut feature of Mahalia Belo, written by Alice Birch and starring Jodie Comer; and THE OUTRUN directed by Nora Fingscheidt, based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot (which Fingscheidt adapted in collaboration with Liptrot) and starring Saoirse Ronan.

Prior to BBC Film, Claudia was Head of Development at Number 9Films where she oversaw the film and television slate. Claudia was previously Talent Development Executive at the Scottish Film Network, part of BFI NETWORK, where she established several new short film programmes and first feature talent development initiatives, and commissioned a series of shorts and first feature developments, working with emerging filmmakers including Ruth Paxton, Cara Connolly, Morayo Akande, and Ben Sharrock. She has an MFA in film from Columbia University, where she received the Hollywood Foreign Press Association scholarship.

Anna Fleischle is an Olivier award–winning and Tony-nominated production set and costume designer.

Theatre includes: A Child of Science (Bristol Old Vic); Punch (Nottingham Playhouse/ Young Vic 2025) Nachtland (Young Vic);The Time Travellers Wife (West End); The Pillowman (West End); The Collaboration (Broadway/Young Vic); Death Of A Salesman (Broadway/Young Vic/West End); 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End/LA/Tour/Melbourne); Hangmen (Broadway/West End/Royal Court), Tony Award Nominee 2022, Winner of Olivier Award For Best Set Design, Critic’s Circle Award ‘Best Designer’, Evening Standard Award ‘Best Design’); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End/ UK tour/ LA); House of Shades, The Writer, Before the Party(Almeida); The Kid Stays In The Picture(Royal Court & Complicité); A German Life; A Very Very Very Dark Matter, John Gabriel Borkman, Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); Home I’m Darling (National Theatre/ West End/UK Tour - 2019 Olivier Award Nominee For Best Set Design And Best Costume Design); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Old Vic); Beware Of Pity (Schaubühne, Berlin/Complicité). Opera includes: L'Orfeo (Vienna Staatsoper); Weimar Nightfall (LA Philharmonic). Dance includes: A Christmas Carol (Finnish National Opera); Message In A Bottle (International Tour); John; Can We Talk About This? (DV8 Physical Theatre/ International tour. Fellowships include: Founding Member of Scene/Change, Associate Artist Young Vic, Trustee Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

Paul is Production & Technical Director at The National Theatre and has worked in theatre production for the last 35 years. For many years he was Head of Production at the Royal Court Theatre focused on delivering new plays by both new and established writers including Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, Jez Butterworth, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane. For the last decade he has worked at the National Theatre where he is Production and Technical Director. He sits on the Linbury Prize Committee and chairs the Genesis Theatre Design Programme.

Stella is CEO at Shakespeare’s Globe, a cultural landmark, located on the River Thames that exists to produce trailblazing and inspiring productions, experiences, and Education programmes that, ‘Puts Shakespeare to Work’ for this moment.

Previously Executive Director at LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), she led the strategic strands of the business as well as presenting and executive producing international work like 2019 Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner Climate-Opera from Lithuania Sun & Sea (2022) and Australia’s The Second Woman (2023) starring two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson in an internationally acclaimed feat of endurance theatre and live cinema. Stella has worked in the theatre, festival, and cultural sector for 30 years. She founded The Pivotal Place, a coaching practice and methodology for creative leaders, in 2005.

Prior to LIFT, Stella was Executive Producer at Ovalhouse (now Brixton House) leading the artistic, community and organisational transition to the new £20 million venue; at Soundwave Cumbria she was CEO of one of the largest music charities working with musicians, young people, and communities in the North of England.

She has sat on several strategic and governing bodies including All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Theatre, and is Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s representative to Arts Council London Area. She sits on the Advisory Board at the drama school Rose Bruford, has been Trustee at New Writing South, member/Interim Chair at Creative Margate Taskforce (preparing for Turner Contemporary), Co-Chair of Arts Council England’s Race Advisory Group (RAG) and Chair at Eclipse Theatre (Leeds). She is an associate member of the Institute of Directors and has been a member of the Royal Flamsteed Astronomy Society since 2017.

Marie-Anne McQuay is the guest Curator for Liverpool Biennial 2025. She is currently on secondment from Arts&Heritage as Director of Projects and was previously Head of Programme at the Bluecoat, Liverpool (2015 – June 2022) and Curator at Spike Island, Bristol (2007-2013). She was also Curator of Wales in Venice 2019 with artist Sean Edwards and Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham. Marie-Anne is currently part of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee 2022-25, on the Advisory of Board of At The Library, Sefton and External Examiner for Art Museum and Gallery Studies MA, University of Leicester 2023-26.

Priyesh Mistry is Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London where he manages an ambitious programme to connect contemporary art with its historic collections through artists residencies and contemporary commissions, most recently with Céline Condorelli, Nalini Malani and Ali Cherri. Previously, he was Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern where he specialised on art from South Asia for the collection and numerous exhibitions and commissions. He is a Trustee of Studio Voltaire, a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the British School at Rome and the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group led by the Mayor of London’s office.

Sinta Tantra is interested in the interplay between colour, light, geometric and organic forms. Her paintings and installations are created in response to time and space, and are designed to subtly transform throughout the day, offering shifting moods and perspectives. Whether produced on a monumental scale or precisely rendered on canvas, her compositions employ a universal visual language that shifts the focus away from meaning to the emotional and physical experience of the artwork.

Born in New York to Balinese parents, Tantra grew up in London where she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (2003) and the Royal Academy Schools (2006). Her Balinese heritage is central to her practice both in terms of her collaborative working processes and her meditative approach to painting.

Tantra’s work has been exhibited at numerous international biennials, art fairs and in group exhibitions such as A New Paradise at the Saatchi Gallery in London (2022), Light in Retrospective at ISA Art and Design, Jakarta (2022), Small is Beautiful (2022) at the Flowers Gallery, London, Framer Framed (2020) in Amsterdam, the Karachi Biennale (2019), the Folkestone Triennial UK (2017) and the Liverpool Biennial UK (2012). Tantra’s work is part of the Government Art Collection, the Benetton Foundation collection, Museum MACAN, the Louis Vuitton collection and other private international collections.