Renée Mussai is an independent curator, writer and scholar of visual culture with a special interest in Black feminist & intersectional practices. For more than two decades, she was senior curator and head of collection & curatorial at arts charity Autograph, where she organised numerous critically acclaimed public programmes of exhibitions, commissions and publications. Between 2022 – 23, she acted as artistic director of The Walther Collection, supporting the foundation’s publication, acquisition and exhibition programmes. She is currently senior research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, SA; guest curator at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA; lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and serves as chair of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation’s advisory council, amongst other academic and institutional affiliations. Her most recent publications include Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain (2025), the forthcoming sole-authored 'Eyes That Commit – A Visual Gathering’ (2026), alongside past award-winning artist monographs. Mussai curates, lectures and publishes internationally on visual and curatorial activism.In 2025, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts in recognition of her sustained curatorship – and scholarship in photography and lens-based media.
Jacqueline Ennis-Colecurates photography exhibitions that platform diasporic and intersectional visual stories. She is the founder and artistic director of Youth X Mentoring CIC and will serve as project lead for the ‘Uprooting Hate’ mentoring initiative. She has been appointed curator in residence at Four Corners Gallery during their Diasporic Futures Season (Oct - Nov 2026). Her curatorial practice explores intersectionality through visual storytelling. Recent socio-environmental exhibitions include Intersectional Geographies: Extraction at Martin Parr Foundation (2022), Intersectional Matter: Waste at Photo/Frome Festival (2023), Intersectional Grammar: Trees at Hackney Gallery (2024), and Mythical Masculine (2025). As editor and publisher of the Arts Council England-funded anthology Hatred is a Bitter Fruit (2025), Ennis-Cole platformed a diverse creative constituency of voices as a reparative justice intervention. She is currently a Slade School of Fine Art practice-led PhD researcher who mentors emerging artists (18-30) while co-facilitating creative workshops across East London. As Curator of Talks and Events at London Independent Photography (LIP) and facilitator of the LIP Satellite Photo Book Group, she creates spaces for intergenerational dialogue around image-making, performance, spoken word, and sound. Recent recognition includes the award of a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England (2025) and the Spread The Word Deaf and Disabled Writers Commission Award (2024).