Keith Cunningham (1929-2014) was born in Sydney, Australia. He worked as a graphic designer before moving to London in 1949 where he studied at the Central School of Design (1949-51, now Central Saint Martins) and the Royal College of Art (1952-55). Cunningham continued to paint, but kept his work private, until the end of his life. At the time of his death, his paintings were discovered at his flat in Battersea and debuted in an exhibition at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in London, 2022. 

Dr Laura Scalabrella Spada completed her PhD at University College London in the Department of History of Art in 2020. Her research focuses on early modern European art, with a particular emphasis on the body and its processes, boundaries and relations. She has published papers on politics of corporeality and animation in early modern prints and currently works as an independent researcher.