David Batchelor (b.1955, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist and writer living in London. His solo exhibitions include My Own Private Bauhaus (2019), Ingleby, Edinburgh; Psychogeometry, Matt’s Gallery London (2017) and Monochrome Archive 1997-2015 (2014), Whitechapel Gallery, London. He is represented by Ingleby, Edinburgh and Galeria Leme, São Paulo. Eleanor Nairne is Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London. Her exhibitions include Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty (2021), Lee Krasner: Living Colour (2019), and Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017). Former Curator of The Artangel Collection at Tate, she writes for publications including The Art Newspaper, the London Review of Books and the New York Times. Adrian Forty is Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Honorary Curator of Architecture at the Royal Academy. He is the author of Objects of Desire (1986) Words and Buildings (2000) and Concrete and Culture (2012).