Ian Davenport studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London, graduating in 1988 with a B.A. in Fine Art. In the same year, he exhibited in the Damien Hirst-curated Freeze exhibition which first brought together many of the later-to-be Young British Artists. In 1991, he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize. His work has been exhibited both here and abroad, and is included in many public collections such as the Tate, London, the Weltkunst Collection, Zurich, and the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Many of Davenport's works are made by pouring paint onto a tilted surface and letting gravity spread the paint over the surface. He has usually worked on medium density fibreboard rather than canvas, and most often employs household gloss paint, meaning the viewer can see their own reflection in the work. He has made a number of diptychs and triptychs as well as single works.

Deborah Orr is an award-winning columnist, and currently writes for the Guardian. As editor of the Weekend Guardian magazine in the 1990s she commissioned many articles about the Young British Artists from the late writer and critic Gordon Burn. Through him met most of the key players in the movement, including Sarah Lucas, and has contributed an essay on Lucas as part of the catalogue for her major retrospective at the Henry Moore Foundation this summer. She recently collaborated with three other journalists, Andrew O'Hagan, Ruth Wishart and Paul Flynn, to create the script for Enquirer, a critically acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play exploring the crisis in the press. Born and raised in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, she is married to the writer Will Self. They have four children and live in London.

Zavier Ellis is the Director of the Old St gallery CHARLIE SMITH london. He is also co-founder of the museum scale show for emerging artists The Future Can Wait, which will be organized for the second year running in 2012 in partnership with The Saatchi Gallery. Zavier has curated exhibitions internationally including in Berlin, Helsinki, Klaipeda, London, Los Angeles, Naples and Rome; and has placed work in notable private collections globally including The Saatchi Gallery, Javier Baz, Peter Nobel, Jean Pigozzi, David Roberts and Thomas Rusche. Known as an acute talent spotter Zavier has identified and exhibited a number of important young artists directly from Art College including David Blandy, Oliver Clegg, Tessa Farmer, Sam Jackson, Monica Ursina Jäger, Annie Kevans, Nika Neelova and Douglas White. Zavier also collects and is a practicing artist and has most recently exhibited at Paul Stolper Gallery in London and Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. http://charliesmithlondon.com.

Jenny Lindén Urnes, Owner and member of the Board of ColArt and Chairman of the Färgfabriken Foundation, a centre for contemporary art and architecture in Stockholm. With a passionate interest in contemporary art, she chairs the jury for the Beckers Art Award. Established in 1987, this award has been given to several of Sweden's most innovative and exciting young artists.