Clare Smith lives and works in Dover, where she is co-founder and co-director of Dover Arts Development. She sees DAD and her public realm work as "reciprocity" and as a means of making deep connections.

She has an MA in Fine Art practice from Central Saint Martins, London. Her work is concerned with is concerned with abstraction as a means of expressing the human condition and with notions of authorship and authenticity.

Tim Strangleman, AcSS is Professor in Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury where he teaches social research methods, sociology of work, deindustrialisation, unemployment, and social class. He is a qualitative researcher who combines oral history, semi-structured interviews alongside visual methods and approaches. He also uses auto/biography and archive material as part of his research. He has carried out research projects in the railway, mining, brewing, construction and engineering sectors.  He has also studied the NHS, teachers and bankers.

Malene Skærved teaches fiction writing at Birkbeck College and Goldsmith University. Her work hinges on the relationship between travelling performers and writings, and their sense of place. This is reflected in her biographical work on Marlene Dietrich and Hans Christian Anderson.  Her creation of a personal mythology is deeply rooted in people’s use of storytelling to facilitate travel, crafts, religion and the day-to-day.

Colin Still is a filmmaker who specialises in making arts documentaries, many of which have been made for Channel 4 Television. These include the twelve-part poetry series ‘Arrows of Desire’, films on the American poets Frank O’Hara, Gary Snyder, Amiri Baraka & Michael McClure & the award-winning documentary ‘No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: an Elegy for Allen Ginsberg’. He is also interested in music, has worked extensively with the Kreutzer & the Arditti String Quartets, & is currently developing a large-scale project with the Kronos Quartet.