Sir Ben Okri is a Booker Prize-winning novelist, as well as an acclaimed essayist, poet and playwright. His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and he has won numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore.

Rosemary Clunie is a painter, printmaker, video artist, illustrator and children's book writer. She has exhibited widely since 1991, including at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2022 British Art Fair and 2024 Venice Biennale, and her paintings are held in eminent private and public collections.

Ossian Ward is Director of Content at Lisson Gallery and a writer on contemporary art. He is the author of Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters (Thames & Hudson, 2019).