OLIVIA LAING – CHAIR
Olivia Laing is a writer, and the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Funny Weather and the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Garden Against Time.
CHANTAL JOFFE
Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Prize in 2006. Joffe has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Exchange, Penzance, UK (2025); The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (2023–2024); The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2022); Koohouse Museum, Yangpyong, Korea (2022); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2021); The Foundling Museum, London, UK (2020); Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018); The Lowry, Salford, UK (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2015); Jewish Museum, New York, USA (2015); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2014–2015); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2013–2014); MODEM, Hungary (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (2009); MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2007); Galleri KB, Oslo, Norway (2005) and Bloomberg Space, London, UK (2004).
Her work is in numerous institutional and private collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts, USA; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA among others.
Joffe has created a major public work for the Elizabeth line in London titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, on view at Whitechapel Elizabeth line station.
CHARLIE PORTER
Charlie Porter is a writer and author of the novel Nova Scotia House. His non-fiction books with Penguin are What Artists Wear and Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion.
LEE MARY MANNING
Lee Mary Manning is a photographer and artist who lives and works in New York. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and Manning’s photographs are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Lee Mary Manning’s photography is an exploration of quiet attentiveness. Their analogue prints are usually gathered into small collections within a single frame, and sometimes montaged alongside fabrics, printed ephemera, or discarded objects. Manning’s images—featuring everything from street scenes to intimate glimpses of nature and people—transform the familiar into something contemplative by focusing on subtle connections and eschewing linear time. The interplay between the pictures and found materials reverberates with tender care for life’s mundane and fleeting moments.
