Emma Stibbon RA works primarily in drawing and print on paper, depicting environments that are undergoing transformation, including the polar regions, volcanoes, deserts, coastal and urban locations. Her approach to landscape is driven by a desire to understand how human activity and the forces of nature shape our surroundings.

Caitlin Southwick: Caitlin is the Founder and Executive Director of Ki Culture. She holds a Professional Doctorate in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Amsterdam.

Caitlin has worked in the conservation field and in museums around the world, including the Vatican Museums, The Getty Conservation Institute, and Easter Island.

Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, an MFA tutor at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and a Research Associate at VIAD (University of Johannesburg). Ama’s writing has been commissioned and published widely, and shortlisted for several prizes and awards, and she has exhibited artist moving image and installation work across Europe. She was recently awarded a PhD from Birkbeck University of London.

Sara Cooper is Head of Collections & Exhibitions at Towner Eastbourne. She manages Towner's permanent collection, including making acquisitions. She oversees the programme of temporary exhibitions and the changing collection displays, and curates exhibitions, working collaboratively with external curators.

Yuichiro Kikuma's paintings incorporate non-painterly methods to create conditions for unexpected images to emerge. In recent years he has predominantly used black ink and explored household devices and found objects from the natural world as compositional resources and mark making tools.

Suzanne Dhaliwal is an artist, writer, and cultural strategist whose work bridges art, ecology, and climate justice discourse. With a background in climate justice and philosophy, Dhaliwal brings a critical, reflective lens to environmental narratives, using art to challenge dominant paradigms and inspire new cultural responses to ecological crises.

Dr Ferdinand Saumarez Smith has worked with Factum Foundation since 2014 as a technical specialist, project developer, and curator, including on a number of rock art related projects in Scotland, Chad, Easter Island, and Brazil.

Syed Jazib Ali is a documentary practitioner and climate leader based in Europe, with roots in Kashmir’s Himalayan region. His work explores how culture can become a language of repair and transformation in a time of ecological and political collapse. Through Mudland, the narrative ecosystem he founded, Jazib brings together artists, researchers, leaders, and communities to create spaces that reshape how we imagine, act, and care in the face of the climate crisis.