Fay Blanchard is Head of Exhibitions at MK Gallery. Prior to joining the gallery she worked as Visual Arts Curator with the British Council. She has produced publications on contemporary British sculpture and artists including Paula Rego, Laura Knight, Ingrid Pollard and Boyd & Evans.

Anthony Spira is Director of MK Gallery, having been curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Jeu de Paume, Paris. He has produced many publications on artists including Ellen Altfest, Hans Bellmer, Peter Dreher, Laura Knight, Ingrid Pollard and George Stubbs.

The Authors
Rebecca Birrell is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Birrell was Curator of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Paintings and Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Her first book, This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century, was published in 2021.

With contributions from Judy Chicago, Paulina Olowska, Hayley Tompkins & The Singh Twins.