Jade Boylan is a Manx artist and designer, she also chairs the visual art and literature panel for the Isle of Man Arts Council. Jade works full time from home working freelance as a graphic designer and artist as well as running her online brand the Candy Doll Club where she sells products featuring her designs to customers all over the world. While much of her contemporary work is predominantly digital, her preferred mediums are acrylic and spray paint, painting large scale pieces and murals reminiscent of Pop Art or Superflat art. Her work often embodies themes of nostalgia and feminism, incorporating characters from 80s and 90s pop culture along with a strong ‘girl power’ and ‘girl gang’ aesthetic evident in most of her pieces. As the youngest member of the Isle of Man Arts Council she is particularly passionate about championing young artists and supporting the island’s up-and-coming creatives.  Find out more about Jade at https://www.candydollclub.com/ and the Arts Council at https://www.iomarts.com/

David is an international businessman who has lived in the UK, Switzerland, the USA, and Australia and has worked in many countries including in Africa and Latin America. In 2007 he moved with his family to the Isle of Man where he has become actively engaged in promoting arts and culture, holding roles as vice chairman of the IOM Arts Council and as a board member of Culture Vannin. He is chairman of Arts Aid, a charity supporting arts education he helped establish in 2018 on behalf of the IOM Arts Council. He has a strong interest in the arts, especially visual arts, and music, as well as conservation. He has helped arrange a number of significant art exhibitions in the Isle of Man at the former Sayle Gallery and the Manx Museum in co-operation with several leading art institutions. Three of those focussed on artists interned in the island during WWII and included major retrospectives of the work of both Ernst Eisenmayer and Kurt Schwitters. He also helped organise the exhibition: “Secret Treasures: Modern British and Irish Art on the Isle of Man” (with Christie’s, London) at the Manx Museum.

Irini Newby is a director of one of the most prestigious law firms on the Isle of Man, Simcocks Advocates, established over 70 years ago. Irini heads up the firm’s Corporate & Commercial department and her client base ranges from major high street banks, large PLCs and boutique private enterprise to individual gaming companies and e-commerce entities. Irini came to the Island in 2001, originally from Greece and via Canada, where she worked at the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Find out more about Irini and Simcocks at www.simcocks.com.

Carola Rush has enjoyed a lifelong career involved with the visual arts, working within the fields of: professional photography; art and media education (in both the formal education sector and less formal gallery arenas); exhibition curation, organisation and design; support and promotion of artists, and art venue management. She has had a passion for visual art from an early age and loves to see a similar passion emerging in young people today. Carola has been involved with the Sovereign Art Prize since its first year on the Isle of Man and feels privileged to have seen some of the best artworks produced by young people during that time. Although now semi-retired, Carola remains voluntarily active within the arts on the Isle of Man through the Creative Network, a collective of nearly 70 artists living and working on the Island. Through the Network, Carola jointly organises the IOM Art Festival and other arts initiatives, most recently she has been involved in the organisation of the developing Silverburn Art Trail, a public amenity running from Castletown to Silverdale Glen.

Anna Clucas, a freelance artist with a BA (Hons) degree in ceramics and printmaking from the University of Wolverhampton, who is mostly known for her large contemporary oil paintings that uses vivid colours and energetic brush strokes to integrate landscape and abstraction with the idea of freedom and improvisation. Anna is a fantastic teacher and works with ART TANK at the youth arts centre, runs Clay Club tutored sessions at the Isle of Man Arts Society and facilitates adult oil painting and print making classes at the UCM. She also finds time to work on new paintings in her Douglas studio. Her work can be viewed at http://www.annaclucasfineart.com/.

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