Stephen Calloway is an art historian, curator and collector. From 1974 to 2013 he was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, specialising in 19th century art and design. He has curated many exhibitions, including The Cult of Beauty (on the Aesthetic Movement) and on individual artists, such as Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, Rex Whistler and William Nicholson and James Pryde. His books include Baroque Baroque, Twentieth-century Decoration and Aubrey Beardsley. Simon Martin is Director of Pallant House Gallery, a modern art museum in Chichester, UK. He has written numerous books, including on the artists Edward Burra, John Minton, John Piper, Colin Self and John Tunnard, and historical studies, such as Conflict and Conscience: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War and Drawn to Nature: Gilbert and White and the Artists. Miriam O'Connor Perks is Curator at Pallant House Gallery. She has contributed to publications on modern and contemporary British art.

She previously worked at Towner Eastbourne. Jane Pritchard MBE is Curator of Dance for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has curated exhibitions on dance, design and photography, including Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929. Previously she was archivist for several British companies, including Rambert, curated seasons of dance films, made radio programmes and published on dance. Patricia Reed is an independent art historian with particular interest in William Nicholson and his circle. Her catalogue raisonné of Nicholson's oil paintings was published in 2011 by Modern Art Press and Yale University Press; she is currently updating it. Melanie Vandenbrouck is a writer, art historian and Chief Curator at Pallant House Gallery. Her wide interests include the porosity between disciplines, the ways in which art and identity intersect and how modern and contemporary artists reinvent tradition.

She has worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Royal Museums Greenwich and the V&A.