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Adrian Arbib [35]
Having travelled the world documenting human rights abuses with the Guardian and the BBC, Adrian Arbib now concentrates on photographing environmental protest and political rebellion within the UK.
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Mark Haddon [34] [80]
Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, poet and novelist Mark Haddon recently had a hit at London’s Royal Court Theatre with Polar Bears. Awards include the Whitbread Book of the Year and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
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Griselda Pollock [21] [32]
One of the country’s leading cultural theorists, Griselda Pollock’s works include Visions and Difference and Looking Back to the Future. She is currently Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds.
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Bryan Appleyard [69]
Award-winning feature writer Bryan Appleyard is the author How To Live Forever Or Die Trying. His new book, The Brain is Wider than the Sky is out in November.
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Susan Hiller [6] [42] [80]
Drawing her inspiration from the unconscious, paranormal and fantastic, Susan Hiller’s work encompasses photography, installation, film and performance. The Tate Britain held a major retrospective solo exhibition of her work earlier this year.
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Sylvia Pollock [47]
Graphic designer and poet Sylvia Pollock is the co-editor of American Letters, the correspondence of husband Charles and his brother Jackson Pollock.
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Rachael Boast [28]
Poet Rachael Boast’s collection Sidereal was winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and has been nominated for both the Guardian First Book and Aldeburgh First Collection prizes.
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Nick Hackworth [73]
Nick Hackworth abandoned his role as a columnist and critic for the Evening Standard to found London’s acclaimed Paradise Row gallery. His books include Jake and Dinos Chapman.
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Nicolas Roeg [25]
Director Nicolas Roeg’s kaleidoscopic filmmaking techniques “shatter reality into a thousand pieces” (Guardian) and are a major influence on a generation of British directors including Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan.
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Godfrey Barker [27] [37] [62]
Godfrey Barker broadcasts for the BBC’s Front Row and Today programme and lectures at Sotheby’s. Former Arts Editor of The Daily Telegraph, his art market commentaries appear in The Times and The Wall Street Journal.
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Razia Iqbal [20] [37] [65]
Ugandan-born Razia Iqbal is Special Correspondent for BBC News and hosts flagship literature programme Talking Books. For Radio 4 she has presented PM, Woman’s Hour and Front Row.
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Josie Rourke [80]
Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre and the new head of London’s legendary Donmar Warehouse, Josie Rourke’s innumerable productions as a freelance director include this summer’s hugely acclaimed Much Ado About Nothing starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
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Jake Chapman [61] [73]
One of the UK’s most outspoken visual artists, Jake Chapman studied at the RCA and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003 with brother Dinos.
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Joanna Kavenna [24] [65]
Winner of the Orange First Novel prize, Kavenna’s works include The Ice Museum and Inglorious. Her journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, and the New York Times.
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Bob and Roberta Smith [7] [24] [72]
'Bob and Roberta Smith’ are the creation of artist, curator, activist and musician Patrick Brill. He trained at Goldsmiths and recently founded the Art Party of the United States.
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Gabriel Coxhead [46]
Gabriel Coxhead is a critic for Frieze, Time Out and The Financial Times and recently curated No New Thing Under the Sun at the Royal Academy.
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Martin Kemp [32] [65] [77]
A leading expert on the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the art and science of sight, Oxford-based art historian Martin Kemp has curated for the V&A, Barbican and Hayward galleries. His new book is From Christ to Coke.
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Dai Smith [20] [39]
Historian and award-winning documentary maker Dai Smith is also the chair of Arts Council Wales. His latest book is In The Frame.
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Guy Dammann [64]
Guy Dammann is the music critic of the Times Literary Supplement and writes for the Guardian. He teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Hilary Lawson [41] [69]
Post-postmodern philosopher and video artist, author of Closure and founder of the video-painting movement, Hilary Lawson is Director of the Institute of Art and Ideas.
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Elisabeth Schellekens [32] [69]
Author of Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? and Aesthetics and Morality, Elisabeth Schellekens teaches the Philosophy of Art, Emotion and Mind at the University of Durham.
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Brian Dillon [24] [74]
Brian Dillon is the author of Sanctuary and In The Dark Room. He writes regularly on art, books and culture for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Artforum, Frieze and the New Statesman.
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Cedar Lewisohn [20] [32] [75]
London-based curator and artist Cedar Lewisohn is the author of Abstract Graffiti. He is best known for his two major exhibitions at the Tate, Street Art and Rude Britannia.
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Julian Spalding [20] [66]
Author of The Art of Wonder and The Poetic Museum, Spalding is the former director of Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums. His new book, The Best Art You’ve Never Seen, was published last October.
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Benjamin Dix [33]
From Tibet to Southern Sudan, Benjamin Dix has worked as an international photojournalist in some of the world’s most startling conflicts. Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields was screened on Channel 4 earlier this year.
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Eleanor Lindsay Fynn [27] [67] [78]
Documentary photographer Eleanor Lindsay Fynn has been exhibited at the White Box in New York and Royal Academy in London. Her poignant, satirical work focuses on the absurd in the everyday.
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Julian Stallabrass [6] [23]
Photographer, art historian and Tate curator Julian Stallabrass has a reputation as a provocative critic of the global politics of the art world. He teaches at the Courtauld Institute of Art and is the author of Gargantua and Ground Control.
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Philip Dodd [6] [20] [37]
Host of BBC Radio 3’s Night Waves and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philip Dodd is the director of Made In China.
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John McGrath [39] [39]
The Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales, John McGrath’s work has been seen in London, New York and South America. His most recent production is The Dark Philosophers.
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Matthew Stone [61] [67]
Artist, musician and self-styled shaman Matthew Stone topped The Sunday Times list of Art Power Players Under 30’. Founder of the !WOWOW! Collective. Dazed and Confused credits Stone with spearheading a party scene that will ‘live on for years to come’.
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Bracha Ettinger [6] [21]
A prominent international artist. Exhibited internationally, including Stedelijk Museum, Whitechapel, Kiasma, Helsinki, Face a L'Historie, at the Pompidou Center, Paris and the recent elles@pompidoucentre. Solo exhibitions include Museum of Anger (2011, “Fundació Antoni Tàpies”, Barcelona (2010), Freud Museum, London (2009), and Drawing Center, NY (2001, MOMA Oxford. As artist/philosopher, she is author of The Matrixial Borderspace. Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art, EGS. Her recent monography was edited by Catherine de Zegher and Griselda Pollock. Bracha is activist against the occupation of Palestinian territories.
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Ben Moore [19] [44] [60]
Artist and documentary-maker Ben Moore is the founder of innovative subterranean arts organisation Art Below. His films have been seen at the Manchester International Film Festival, Channel 4, Raindance and the ICA.
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John Tusa [65] [80]
A former director of the BBC World Service and of the Barbican Arts Centre, John Tusa was also the founding presenter of Newsnight. He currently serves as the chair of the University of the Arts London.
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Patricia Ellis [37]
Building on her long-term work with the Saatchi Gallery, Patricia Ellis is the author of 100: The Work That Changed Art. A curator and freelance writer, she has curated over eleven exhibitions in the last decade.
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Adrian Noble [41] [45]
The recipient of over 20 Olivier Award nominations, Adrian Noble is a former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since leaving the company in 2002 major productions have included Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End.
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Raymond Tallis [61] [66]
Physician, poet and novelist Raymond Tallis is ‘one of the world’s greatest living polymaths’ (Intelligent Life). His latest book is Aping Mankind.
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Harry Eyres [28]
Journalist and poet Harry Eyres writes the FT’s Slow Lane column and was previously the theatre critic of The Times, wine critic of The Spectator and Poetry Editor of The Daily Express.
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Hans Ulrich Obrist [29] [42]
Co-director of Exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery and Art Review’s most powerful art world player for 2009. A prolific documentarian, Ulrich Obrist has recorded almost 2000 hours of interviews with cultural figures including Ai Wei Wei, Zaha Hadid and John Baldessari.
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Jane Wheatley [43]
Jane Wheatley is a book critic and feature writer for The Times.
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Felicity Evans [24] [41]
After training to become a barrister, Felicity Evans abandoned the law for the BBC newsroom and now presents The World Tonight and Good Morning Wales on BBC Radio and The Politics Show on BBC1.
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Francesca Pollock [47]
Daughter of the artist Charles Pollock and co-editor of American Letters, his correspondence with brother Jackson, Francesca Pollock is also a practising psychoanalyst and translator based in France.
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Semir Zeki [41] [69]
UCL neuroscientist and founding father of the study of Neuroesthetics, Semir Zeki is the author of Inner Vision and Splendours of the Brain. His awards include the Minerva Foundation Prize and the Koestler Prize.
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