Making New Worlds

Hammad Nasar is a curator, writer, researcher and strategic advisor. He is presently Senior Research Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre (London). Earlier he was Lead Curator, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (Coventry); Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation, London; Head of Research & Programmes at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Principal Research Fellow, UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, and co-founded Green Cardamom, London. His most recent exhibitions include British Art Show 9, Turner Prize (2021), Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition (2018-19) and Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play – the UAE’s pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). He was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in 2023. Sarah Victoria Turner is an art historian, curator and writer. She is Director at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, which is part of Yale University, and has taught art history at the University of York and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is the founding co-editor of British Art Studies, an award-winning digital arts publication. Amy Tobin is associate professor in the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge and curator, contemporary programmes at Kettle’s Yard. Her research addresses histories of collaboration and collectivity in modern and contemporary art. She has published widely, her book on the women’s art movement is published by Yale University Press.