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Derek Jarman (b. 1942) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author. From 1960 he studied at King's College London, followed by four years at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL). Jarman was outspoken about homosexuality, his public fight for gay rights, and his personal struggle with AIDS.

Jarman's first films were experimental Super 8mm shorts, a form he never entirely abandoned, and later developed further in his films Imagining October (1984), The Angelic Conversation (1985), The Last of England (1987) and The Garden (1990) as a parallel to his narrative work.

Guy Brett (b. 1942) is a London-based art critic, curator and lecturer on art. He has published widely in the international art press and is the author of monographic essays on Rasheed Araeen, Derek Boshier, Lygia Clark, Eugenio Dittborn, Tina Keane, Brion Gysin, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller and Ghisha Koenig.

Brett contributed as a critic and as curator to the development of European and Latin-American kinetic art during the 1960s. He curated influential exhibitions such as “In Motion”, an international exhibition of kinetic art for the Arts Council of Great Britain (1966) and “Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic” for MACBA in Barcelona and the Hayward Gallery in London,(2001).

Dame Marina Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBA (b. 1946) is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities.

She resigned from her position as Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex in 2014, sharply criticising moves towards "for-profit business model" universities in the UK, and is now Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2017 she was elected president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the first time the role has been held by a woman since the founding of the RSL in 1820.