Meet the judges

Frances Akinde

Frances has been a qualified Art teacher for 20 years, working across a variety of settings/phases including primary, secondary, alternative, and special education.

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Mia Bano

Mia Bano is a primary class teacher and the art, craft and design lead at Arden Primary School in Birmingham. Being an advocate for the arts, she passionately shares her implementation of curating a powerful art, craft and design curriculum with her…

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Kevin Dalton-Johnson

Kevin is a Black professional artist, teacher and academic driven by an incredible passion for self-expression and decolonisation through art. His many artworks are often noted for their unique powerful style and technique. He has developed an innovative…

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Dr Sook-Kyung Lee

Dr Sook-Kyung Lee is Director of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, UK. She was Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), titled soft and weak like water, which explored themes of resistance, indigeneity, decoloniality and ecology.

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Bob and Roberta Smith

Who are Bob and Roberta Smith? Bob and Roberta Smith is the name of the British artist whose best known works include: ~ Make Art Not War, which belongs to the Tate collection; and Letter to Michael Gove.

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Marlene Wylie

Marlene Wylie is President of NSEAD and a creative education consultant. Having trained originally as a textiles designer she has taught art, craft and design in inner and outer London multicultural primary and secondary schools for over 20 years.

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Andria Zafirakou

Andria Zafirakou is a Vice Principal in the Swiss Cottage School Research and Development Centre.  Her specialist subjects are arts and textiles and for the last nineteen years has worked in some of the most marginalised communities in London.

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