Dr Susan Bright is an experienced arts leader who has curated exhibitions at Tate Britain, The National Portrait Gallery, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Princeton University Art Museum and more. She has published seven books on art and photography. She is a regular contributor to exhibition catalogues, journals, magazines and broadsheets and has appeared on BBC Radio 4. She is currently working on two exhibitions for 2026, in the USA. 

Phoebe Cummings studied Three-Dimensional Crafts at the University of Brighton before completing an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has undertaken a number of artist residencies and was selected as the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011. Recent exhibitions have included a commission to make work for Swept Away at the Museum of Arts & Design, New York in 2012 and a solo show at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu (2013).  She was awarded the second ceramics fellowship at Camden Arts Centre, London (2012 – 2013), was the inaugural winner of the Woman's Hour Craft Prize and was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Awards 2018. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Brighton in 2019 and is Research Associate at the Ceramics Research Centre - UK, University of Westminster.