Jeremy Lewison was formerly Director of Collections at Tate. Since 2002, he has been an independent curator, writer, critic and lecturer, with a specialism in modern and contemporary art.

Dr Hester R. Westley is the Project Director for Artist's Lives, National Life Stories at the British Library. Hester's recent research interests focus on intersectional histories of self-narration, and she has published on both her artist-interviewees' work as well as the methodology of an artist's life story.