Sunil Gutpa, Artist
Gupta MBE MA (RCA) PhD (Westminster) lives in London and has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration and queer issues. A retrospective will be shown at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2026). He is a Professorial Fellow at UCA, Farnham and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal College of Art. His latest books are Come Out, 2024 and Tessa Boffin Photographs, Stanley Barker, London 2025. His work is in many private and public collections including; the Tokyo Museum of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is represented by Hales Gallery (New York, London), Matèria Gallery (Rome), Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto) and Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi).
Robert Taylor, Artist
Taylor has published and exhibited widely, with work in the V&A, the National Portrait Gallery and several other permanent collections including The Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Oxford University and Aston University. Following service in the RAF, being called to the Bar, and educational publishing in Nigeria, his friendship with the photographer Rotimi Fani Kayode was a major influence on his decision to become a photographer himself.
Over 35 years Robert’s practice divided between collections of portraits commissioned by academic and scientific institutions including the Royal Society, and various Oxford University colleges celebrating landmark anniversaries including the first admission of women into hitherto all male institutions. Other projects include a series commissioned by the ICA, of portraits of Black British practitioners across the arts. He has also produced work for charities in Africa and HIV charities in the UK.
More recently a project based at Hampton Court Palace, in collaboration with, amongst others, David McAlmont, explored notions of beauty, from eight black queer perspectives: https://permissiblebeauty.le.ac.uk/ .
Other interests include offender rehabilitation through the arts, and jewellery for men.
Dr Ed Webb-Ingall, Artist, Chair
Webb-Ingall is a filmmaker and researcher working with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video. He is a co-founder and project director of the London Community Video Archive and is the author of BFI Screen Stories: The Story of British Video Activism (2026). Previous solo exhibitions include, Three Rivers (2025), Peer (2024), Grand Union, Devonshire Collective (both 2023); South London Gallery (2019); Focal Point (2018). Group exhibitions include Brent Biennial (2022); MK Gallery, Invisible Dust (both 2019). He is a lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London.