Victoria Avery is Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Professor of European Sculpture at Cambridge University. Her recent publications include Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023), Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800 (2019) and Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze (2018).

Wanja Kimani is a visual artist, writer and curator whose research explores diasporic cultural histories and the evolving relationship between the body and the land. She has curated and collaborated on international exhibitions with artists, primarily from East Africa. In 2022, she represented Kenya at the 59th Venice Biennale and is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL.