Sonia Boyce is an interdisciplinary artist and academic working across film, photography, print, sound and installation. In 2022 she presented FEELING HER WAY, a major new commission for the British Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as part of the British Black Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. From the 1990s onwards, Boyce’s practice has taken a significant multi-media and improvisational turn. Since 2014 she has been a Professor at University of the Arts London, where she holds the inaugural Chair in Black Art & Design. Her research into Black artists and modernism culminated in the 2018 BBC Four documentary Whoever Heard of a Black Artist?

Bettina Korek is Chief Executive of Serpentine, Kensington Gardens. Prior to arriving in London in 2020, she spent two decades leading arts organisations in her hometown of Los Angeles, most recently as founding Executive Director of Frieze Los Angeles. In 2006, she founded ForYourArt, an organisation that has expanded the place of art in everyday life in Southern California. She served on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission from 2011-2020 and was the organisation’s president in 2016-2017.

Mary McCartney was born in London in 1969. Her photographic work has focused on discovering those rare moments of unguarded, emotionally charged intimacy that offer us a new insight to the subject. Her work has concentrated on the world of portrait and is suffused with a deep personal investment that captures the creative chemistry between Mary and her subjects. She responds to her wide variety of subjects as spontaneously as they are studied, with her distinctive style and talent for embodying the vulnerabilities, histories and personalities of her subjects.