Andrew Bracey is an artist, curator and is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. He is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, has extensive experience of teaching art for over twenty years, including at Wolverhampton, Salford, Manchester Metropolitan and Liverpool John Moores Universities, and is an experienced external examiner for fine art. His practice-research explores the slippages between the original/reproduction, artist/curator, painter/painting, to emphasise the importance of looking, attentiveness and materiality in appropriation.

Gabi Boiangiu is a fine artist and senior lecturer at Leeds Arts University. As an artist she has worked alongside other artists on collaborative projects including long term ventures such as the Drawing Dialogue (2015-2022) and Home/Acasa Project (2006-2009). She has also been involved in co-curating DalgArt in Romania (an artist led gallery and artist project space, active since 2015). She is committed to sustainability and using natural materials in creating work that can be easily transported, making less impact on the environment and engaging with educating the public about nature and wellbeing. She is co-secretary of NAFAE and a committee member for Paradox, Fine Art Forum UK.

Rose is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. She uses adapted technology and new media, alongside early cameras, and analogue processes to make interactive installations, multi-screen videos, films, and large-scale photographs. Her work examines borders, contested or sensitive spaces and communities, and considers the material qualities of image-making. Her research brings together artists and researchers across specialisms to explore the potential for academic as well as societal impact through creative methodologies and interdisciplinary practices. Projects result in multiple outputs such as artefacts, exhibitions, artists talks, performances, presentations, publications and awards.

Jackie Goodman is a Director and Founder Member of The Feral Art School in Hull. She has taught art and design, performance and media studies in secondary schools and sixth form colleges and lectured in critical & theoretical studies at Hull School of Art and Design, where she was Associate Dean until 2018. Her research areas are literature and domestic space, and the development of alternative models of art education.  She is an Honorary Research Associate at The University of Hull and a member of the Cooperative University Federation Working Group, a community of education co-operatives working to develop alternative models of education and to nurture co-operative learning.

Daniel Hawley-Lingham is chief executive of AA2A, an Arts Council England (ACE) Investment Principle Support Organisation (IPSO) that facilitates artists residencies and fosters collaboration between further and higher education institutions and artists while supporting students as they transition from study to employment in the arts. Daniel shapes the organisation's trajectory, initiating innovative projects, and elevating AA2A's national presence. He is also a curator, researcher, educator, writer, and coder, with a strong commitment to the curation of contemporary works in digital media, artists' moving image, and sound.

Valerie Oliver is originally from Philadelphia, PA , living in the UK. She holds a PHD in Creativity and Culture from the awarding body of Brunel University (2016). She practices conceptual art and interlinks her research interest that provides an analysis towards the effectiveness of contemporary art practices as a valid tool (approach) in the contexts of education and their role in social exclusion environments. It includes the significance of Fine Arts as a broader approach in core education settings and external organisations. She works independently in alternative education with students from 8 to 16 years old.

Associate Professor, Dr Jenny Walden  University of Portsmouth is  co-Secretary of NAFAE,  and former Head of School of Art and Design, currently an Associate Dean in Technology Faculty, where she tries to “put the ‘A’ in STEM and indeed some ‘STEM in Art’.  She ran the Masters in Art Practice, and led the Fine Art and Philosophy Research Group. She is passionate about art education for diversity and inclusion and for providing for open hearts and minds and critical thinking. Jenny is committed to understanding and promoting art as a practice that supports and generates relational ties and moments of recognition and responsibility towards each other.