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Emma Talbot is an artist who lives and works in London and Italy. Winner of the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women, she is known internationally for her installations of radiant paintings on silk, animations, sculpture and drawings.
Her work has been exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark; Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL; Kindl Museum Berlin; Beiqiu Museum Nanjing China; Palazzo Strozzi, Italy; Frieze Special Projects, London; Kunsthaus Centre D’Art Pasquart, CH; The New Museum, New York; KM21 The Hague NL; Tate St.Ives UK; Kunsthall Stavanger Norway; Louisiana Museum Denmark; EMST Athens.

Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been making solo and group performance works intertwined with an extensive visual art practice since 1995.
Presenting work internationally and across the UK in galleries, theatres and the public realm. By encouraging chaotic relationships between the body and material, she produces interactive sculpture, paintings that use the whole body's physicality, text, film and drawings Her painting practice comes together with sculpture and performance in a reciprocal nature: engaging in a shared dialogue and creating multiple modes of processing performance, and the interrelations between dancers, audiences and sites.
Peake performance Your Meaning Not Your Materiality was recently presented at Leeds Art Gallery (2024) and will tour to additional UK venues in 2025/26/27. Her touring institutional solo exhibition Factual Actual: Ensemble was presented at Southwark Park Galleries, London; Towner Eastbourne and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023/2024). Her work was part of the group exhibitions Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement at Victoria Miro, London (2024/25), and Hayward Gallery's touring British Art Show 9 (2021). Other exhibitions and performances include,Venice Biennale 2019; CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France (2018), London Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2018); De La  Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2018); Hayward Gallery, London UK (2018),

Li Shan is a Chinese contemporary artist and a pioneer of Bio-Art. He was born in Lanxi, Heilongjiang Province in 1942, studied at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1964 to 1968, and later taught there until his retirement. In the 1960s he started to engage in contemporary art. He lives and works in Shanghai and New York now.
Li Shan was also one of the main participants in the Chinese '85 New Wave Art Movement. In 1993, Li began investigations on life science through his art. Based on molecular biology, he completed the first-ever genetic Bio-Art project Reading in 1998 and published the article The Story of Fish and Butterfly in 2000.
Solo exhibitions: Li Shan: Quantum Jumping, Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen (2025); Decoding, ShanghART, Shanghai (2019); PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2017); Reading Li Shan, MoCA, Taipei (2012);

Phillip Allen (b. 1967, London) is a painter who lives and works in London. Educated at Kingston University and the Royal College of Art, his practice treats abstraction as a problem of syntax, activating colour and shape as agents. His paintings resist closure, unfolding through provisional, contingent logics that question how meaning arises without narrative or representation. Allen is Director and Programme Leader at Turps Education and teaches on the RCA MA Painting. Shows span Dublin, New York, Milan, and London. His work appears in collections, including Arts Council England, the British Council, Tate, and the UK Government Art Collection.

Chen Tong was born in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, in 1962. In 1979, he enrolled on the Chinese Painting course at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently taught in the Academy's Chinese Painting Department from 1986 until his retirement in October 2022, serving successively as Head of Studio and Vice-Dean. He currently lives in Qingtian, Shunde.
As a cross-media artist, Chen Tong’s work encompasses painting, literature, video, theatre, and installation art. He is also a publishing curator and institutional practitioner in the field of contemporary art. He founded the Borges Bookshop and the Video Bureau, and has curated and published series such as the ‘Experimental Art Series’, the ‘Midnight Collection’, and ‘The Hedonist’. In 2010, he was awarded the 'Order of Arts and Letters' by the French Ministry of Culture in recognition of his contributions to Sino-French cultural exchange.