Vaizey, Marina: - Marina Vaizey is a lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the art critic of the Financial Times for four years, and The Sunday Times for eighteen years. She has been a council member of the Arts Council, the Crafts Council, several art colleges, national museums, Friends groups and arts centres. Among her books are The Artist as Photographer, 100 Masterpieces of Art, Great Women Collectors, and she has written numerous catalogues, led over fifty trips visiting cultural institutions abroad, and lectured to art societies and in museums and galleries. She is currently writing for theartsdesk.com, the Burlington magazine, Dispatches (Imperial War Museum) and the V & A magazine. For Cv Publications, she has written on Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Lucian Freud.

Lucie-Smith, Edward: - Edward Lucie-Smith was born in 1933 at Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to Britain in 1946, and was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Merton College, Oxford, where he read History. Subsequently he was an Education Officer in the R.A.F., then worked in advertising for ten years before becoming a freelance author. He is now an internationally known art critic and historian, who is also a published poet (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize), an anthologist and a practicing photographer. He has published more than a hundred books in all, including a biography of Joan of Arc (recently republished by Penguin in paperback as a 'classic biography'), a historical novel, and more than sixty books about art, chiefly but not exclusively about contemporary work. A number of his art books, among them Movements in Art since 1945, Visual Arts of the 20th Century, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world. Movements in Art since 1945, first published in 1969, has been continuously in print since that date. He has been curator of a number of exhibitions, including three Peter Moores Projects at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, (surveys of contemporary British art), The New British Painting (which toured US venues in 1988-90) and two artist retrospectives, Lin Emery and George Dunbar, both for the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has been a jury member for the John Moores prize exhibition in Liverpool, and for biennials in Cairo, Sharjah, Alexandria and Belgrade. He was curator of 'New British Art'. at the Orion Gallery in Ostend (April-June 2001), of 'New Classicism: Artists of the Ideal', at Palazzo Forti, Verona (AprilSeptember 2002), and of 'Gods Becoming Men' at the Frissiras Museum, Athens [July-September 2004).