JADE MONTSERRAT is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR, UCLan, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark. Jade’s Rainbow Tribe project – a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from the perspective of the Black Diaspora is central to the ways she is producing a body of work, including No Need For Clothing and its iterations, as well as her performance work Revue. Jade was commissioned to present Revue as a 24 hour live performance at SPILL Festival of Performance, October 2018, a solo exhibition at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, (Nov – 10 Mar 2019) which toured to Humber Street Gallery ( July-sept 2019) and was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover.
WEBB - ELLIS (Caitlin and Andrew) are British/Canadian artist filmmakers. Using film, dance, music and installation, they create work which aims to offer ways to imaginatively access the political through the lens of the subconscious and the body. Webb-Ellis have ongoing collaborations with artists, philosophers, scientists, family, friends and strangers. Through an extended process of gathering and sifting, they bring diverse materials and concepts into dialogue to create new meaning. Coincidence and fiction play a significant role, and the subject matter is never fixed. They are facilitators of Philosophy for Children, recipients of the Jerwood Film and Video Umbrella Award 2019, and are currently working with Cement Fields on an extended educational project and new film funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
ALEXANDRA MOORE is an educator, curator and PhD candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes about and alongside contemporary art practices, and is particularly interested in how discourses of race, gender, belonging, and citizenship are constructed and transmitted through representations of land and built space. As Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, she is currently co-curating Barring Freedom, an exhibition that will examine the role of art in making visible the structural racism and modes of violence embedded within the United States’ prison industrial complex. Alex earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University.