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Simona Dell'Agli

Simona Dell'Agli is an Italian photo-artist interested in the social history of landscapes. She graduated in an MA in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster in 2001, also producing a limited edition self-published photo-booklet who gone to sell more than 300 copies.

Simona's areas of expertise include: exhibition organisation; arts administration; marketing; the photography landscape in the London visual arts world; and is forever grateful to Arts Media Contacts for showing her the importance of a well updated mailing and press list.

Nick Kaplony

Having worked as assistant Curator at the Arts Gallery London Nick went on to join the Artquest team as Programme Co-ordinator in June 2007. Nick is a practicing artist and freelance curator/exhibitions organiser.

Nick's areas of expertise include: education and community projects; exhibition marketing; curating; the public gallery sector; funding applications.

Russell Martin

Russell Martin is a graduate from The Glasgow School of Art and has lived in London since 1998 where he initially worked extensively in gallery education.  His self-initiated projects include the peer mentoring group Speakeasy which became a partial model for Forum, and the HÔTEL BELLVILLE and Way East artist's project spaces in Waterloo (2003-2004) and Hackney Wick (2008). He co-produced and presented two series for Resonance 104.4FM in 2006. He is also a co-founder and one of the directors of Rational Rec, the interdisciplinary social occasion working nationally and internationally to commission and present new works.

Russell's areas of expertise include: peer mentoring projects; setting up artist led spaces; education and community projects; funding applications and general presentation skills; artists networks.

A graduate from Goldsmiths College who has exhibited in Europe and beyond, including at Bloomberg SPACE, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe and The North Sea.  His experience includes dealing with commercial / independent galleries, auction houses, curators, fairs, commissions and collectors.

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