Lakwena has created works in the public realm internationally, from installations at Tate Britain, Somerset House and the Southbank Centre in London, to a juvenile detention centre in Arkansas, a monastery in Vienna, and the Bowery Wall in New York City.

Her intensely coloured, large-scale, graphic design-inspired murals have taken over the streets of London, New York and Miami with hopeful affirmations and striking colour-schemes.

Focusing on female artists only, Valeria Napoleone has assembled a pioneering collection that has been growing for over 25 years. She is also the founder of ValeriaNapoleoneXX a platform dedicated to increasing the representation of female artists in major public museums and institutions.

Jerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. He is also the author of New York Times Best Seller “How To Be an Artist”.

Trevyn McGowan is a gallerist and co-founder of Southern Guild, based in Cape Town and New York. Born in Johannesburg, she holds a degree in dramatic arts from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and spent a decade as a stage, film, and television actress before founding Site
Specific, a creative interiors agency.

Their pioneering vision has earned the McGowans places on Art+Auction magazine's Power 100 list of the most influential players in the global art world and Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business.

Valerie is an independent curator and gallerist based in Dallas. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of New England in Portland and curatorial practice from New York University.

Pencil on Paper Gallery was awarded Best Art Gallery in Dallas in 2021, Best Art Space in Dallas in 2023 and Best Art Gallery for Emerging Artists in 2024 by D Magazine.

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer and curator based in London. Her books include The Mirror and the Palette: Revolution, Rebellion and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits (2021) and The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, and she served as editor of frieze magazine in various capacities from 1998 to 2021.

She is the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, and has served as a judge of the Turner Prize and the Paul Hamlyn Award. She holds a BA from the Canberra School of Art and an MA from the Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Hall W. Rockefeller is an arts writer, speaker, and advocate for women artists. She is the founder of Less Than Half, an advisory and education platform dedicated to bringing women into the art market as supporters and collectors of women artists. Previously, Hall served as the Warshawsky Fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has also worked at the Marina Abramovic Institute and the Rosenberg & Co. Gallery.

She holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in the History of Art, from Yale and the Courtauld Institute of Art, respectively.

MA Jasmin Glaab is an Art Manager, Consultant and Gallerist. She studied Fine Art, Curatorial Studies and Art Management in Basel, Zurich and Berlin. Since 2013 her company GLAAB FINE ART offers art management and consulting services for artists, collectors, galleries, institutions and associations. She has been the owner of GALERIE GLAAB in Bern since 2022 and deals in 20th and 21st century art.

Liz founded her business as an art advisor in 2012 after working as an in-house curator for a corporate collection. Recognizing the need for professional art advisory services, she established Liz Lidgett Gallery + Design, an art gallery and full-service art advising firm working with personal and corporate collections.

Sarah Brook is an art gallery and community-driven space. They work closely with a group of artists across a wide range of media, including painting, photography and sculpture.

Kitty is Subject Matter’s Artist Director and Curator. Kitty co-founded a business programme with London's Royal College of Art and over the last 7 years she has curated exhibitions across London. Kitty is passionate about the sustainability of artist careers and she regularly participates in artist groups and workshops to help build a sustainable art career.

A seasoned art consultant having worked with both emerging and well established blue chip artists. I received formal training in Fine Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology and have an inherent knowledge of process. I am able to communicate clearly with clients regarding all aspects of the art market and facilitate all levels of collecting.

a'driane nieves (b. 1982, San Antonio, Texas) is a visual artist and writer whose interdisciplinary practice explores the interior landscapes of the self.

A self-taught painter, she began painting in 2011 as a form of art therapy during recovery from postpartum depression and a subsequent diagnosis of bipolar disorder. In 2018, nieves founded Tessera Arts Collective, a not-for-profit serving women and non-binary abstract artists of color.

Her work can be found in collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, including the Fondation Louis Vuitton and the Rennie Museum in Vancouver.