Rowan Bain is Principal Curator of the William Morris Gallery, London. She is co-curator of numerous exhibitions, including ‘Althea McNish: Colour is Mine’; ‘Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper’ and ‘May Morris: Art & Life’. She is the author of William Morris Flowers (2019) and co-author of May Morris Arts & Crafts Designer (2017).

Sarah was born and raised on the south coast of England, studied art and then took an apprenticeship to learn the traditional craft of signwriting.

She has lived in Gibraltar for over 30 years and works as an artist and illustrator, most recently producing " A Pictorial History of Gibraltar " with author Sam Benady which was awarded a Heritage Commendation in 2020.

Sarah is a tutor for the MBS School Wellbeing Program, where she teaches art and creativity as a form of mindfulness and expression in local schools.

bastian paints mostly from life and runs Face Frames Gallery where he exhibits his work and runs his picture framing business. Sebastian also teaches a Draw from Life Course at the Gibraltar College of Further Education, where he cascades knowledge learnt in various academies and workshops. Sebastian as also judged the 2020 Young Artist Competition organised by the Ministry of Culture.

Magda Bellotti was born in Algeciras (Spain) in 1957.  

Magda has strong relationships with Gibraltar, her mother was a Gibraltarian. Studied in Gibraltar till 1969 when the frontier was closed by spanish dictator Franco.

She graduated in Philosophy from the Sevilla University in 1982.

She opened Magda Bellotti Art Gallery in october of 1982 in Algeciras. Focused on the young very talented spanish artists that emerged when Sapin recovered democracy. Very intense years of hard work to promote contemporary art in the south of Spain.

In 2001 the Gallery moved to Madrid, and opened a space in the Barrio de las Letras, between the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofía Museums. 

Since the gallery was opened in 1982  the Gallery has participated in numerous art fairs, such as  ARCO, Madrid,  ART FRANKFURT , ARTISSIMA Torino, MACO Mexico,  BALELATINA  Basel,   ARTBO Bogotá,  DIVA Art fair New York,  PINTA Art Fair London,  LOOP Barcelona,  MADRID PHOTO,  ESTAMPA Madrid,  DRAWING ROOM Madrid, ARTESANTANDER, amongst others.

Magda has also been very active in associations related with the arts in Spain, she has been founder and formed part of the committees of the IAC (Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo); ARTEMADRID (Madrid association of Galleries) ; MAV (Women in the Visual Arts); CONSORCIO of Spanish Art Galleries;

In 2018 the gallery closed and Magda moved on to live in Algeciras, where she is involved in numerous art projects as a curator.

Magda is very interested in promoting  young talented artists living in Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar area she discovered when she returned to Algeciras.

Magda also sees the potential of this whole area with the impressive Strait of Gibraltar with Africa just on the other side. An enormous energy that we must take advantage of with ambitious cultural initiatives. In some of these initiatives she is working currently.

Howard Bilton is Chairman and founder of The Sovereign Group – one of the world’s largest privately owned consultancies specialising in the provision of offshore trusts and companies and associated international tax advice- www.SovereignGroup.com. He currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Howard holds a joint honours BA degree in classics and law from the University of Keele and is qualified as a Barrister and called to the Bars of England/Wales and Gibraltar. He is a regular contributor of articles to The Telegraph and Financial Times. He is a visiting non-resident professor at Texas A and M University where he assists with their LLM and Masters degrees in International Tax and Offshore Centres. In 2003 he formed The Sovereign Art Foundation Limited which is a charity registered in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guernsey, South Africa and the UK. SAF has raised over US$9 million which has been used to help many thousands of disadvantaged children using art as a means of rehabilitation and education. See www.SovereignArtFoundation.com. He is the principal of Hillvalley Limited which since 2005 has been making wine in Portugal which is sold throughout the world under the “Howard’s Folly” brand name. See www.HowardsFollyWine.com