aesthetica symposium
Portfolio Review: Sessions 4-6 Thursday 12 March | 12:00-12:20, 12:20-12:40, 12:40-13:00 | De Grey 016
Aimee Dawson Assistant Digital Editor, The Art Newspaper
Aimee Dawson is the assistant digital editor at The Art Newspaper, a journal of record for the visual arts world. She specialises in art from the Middle East and North Africa, having studied Arabic and Middle East studies and contemporary African and Asian art. Aimee is also Partnerships and Special Projects Manager at Ibraaz, working on the Visual Culture of the Middle East book series. Previous roles include being the writer-in-residence for Shubbak Festival.
www.theartnewspaper.com
Andrea Luka Zimmerman Artist
Andrea Luka Zimmerman is an artist and filmmaker whose work is concerned with marginalisation, co-existence, waywardness and social justice. Films include the Artangel- produced Here for Life, 2019, which had its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival and Erase and Forget, 2017, premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. Zimmerman has had exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, and is co-founder of the cultural collective Fugitive Images.
www.fugitiveimages.org.uk
Eleanor Sutherland Digital Content Writer, Aesthetica
Eleanor Sutherland is Digital Content Writer at Aesthetica Magazine. She joined the team in 2017, producing online articles, interviews and social media for international readerships across art, architecture, design, fashion, film and photography. She has a BA in History of Art and English Literature from the University of York. Eleanor is involved in Aesthetica’s related projects, including the BAFTA-Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
www.aestheticamagazine.com aesthetica symposium
Portfolio Review: Sessions 4-6 Thursday 12 March | 12:00-12:20, 12:20-12:40, 12:40-13:00 | De Grey 016
Eliza Williams Editor, Creative Review
Eliza Williams is Editor at Creative Review magazine. She is also a writer, critic and broadcaster on art, design, advertising and music. Williams hosts the Creative Review Podcast. Eliza has published two books via Laurence King, titled This Is Advertising and How 30 Great Ads Were Made, and has contributed texts to several books published by Phaidon, including The 21st Century Art Book and The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design.
www.creativereview.co.uk
Pierre Saurisse Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Pierre Saurisse is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, in London. His book Mechanics of the Unpredictable explores the question of chance in art in the 1960s. He has written on Gilbert and George in Visual Culture in Britain. His work is also published in Sculptures, Espace Art Actuel and The Mediatization of the Artist. Saurisse has taught contemporary art at the Universities of Aix-Marseilles and Rennes.
www.sothebysinstitute.com