Alison Jackson Founder
Alison Jackson is a contemporary, BAFTA and multi-award-winning artist who explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon created by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. Jackson makes convincingly realistic work about celebrities doing things in private using cleverly styled lookalikes. Within her work, likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. She creates scenarios we have all imagined but have never seen before.
Alison Jackson, former Councillor for Chelsea Riverside ward, is an ambassador for Spinal Injuries Association and the Council for the Royal College of Art.
Mark Husson
After a trans-Atlantic career in finance, Mark is delighted to refocus his attention on his life-long passion for photography . He has also been committed in sharing this enthusiasm with our Youth Club workshops.
www.markhusson.co.uk
Susan Clement Davies
Susan Clement Davies has worked in finance for over 25 years, including as Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets at Citigroup Global Markets Limited. Susan most recently has focused on Life Sciences and is board member of a number of companies including MiNA Therapeutics, Evgen Pharma plc, Exploristics and Science Group plc as well as deputy chairman of Scancell Holdings plc. Susan is also an Advisor for Oxford Sciences Enterprises, the venture arm of Oxford University.
William Boyd
William Boyd has written fifteen novels – published around the world and translated into some three-dozen languages – four collections of short stories and the screenplays for seventeen films and television series. Boyd has also written widely on photography, principally for the Guardian and the Telegraph, and has also provided the introductions to the monographs of several photographers – most notably Rankin, Raymond Depardon, Paul Joyce, Robert Doisneau and Jean-Pierre Gilson. His use of “found” photographs in his novels Nat Tate: An American Artist (1998) and Sweet Caress (2015) has made him something of a specialist in the subject of anonymous photography. In 2018 he curated an exhibition of Jacques-Henri Lartigue’s work at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in Chelsea.
Amanda Eliasch
Amanda Eliasch is an English photographer, artist, poet and filmmaker. Her first major black and white photographic exhibition was 'Three Way Mirror', held in London in 1999 at The Cork Street Gallery. Since 2008, Eliasch has also worked as the fashion editor for Genlux Magazine, in Los Angeles.
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