Mahtab Hussain is a British artist whose work explores identity, race, and belonging, particularly within the British Muslim experience. Raised in Birmingham as the child of first-generation Pakistani immigrants, his practice spans photography, sculpture, and installation, creating a visual language that challenges stereotypes and amplifies the voices of underrepresented communities. 

Recent exhibitions and projects include What Did You Want To See? (Ikon Gallery, 2025), Please Take a Seat (The Line, 2025), and The Forgotten Army Project (2024-2026). His early works include You Get Me? (MACK Books, 2017), Going Back Home to Where I Came From (2016), and Honest With You (2018). His work is held in international collections including the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Government Art Collection, UK. Hussain is currently working on Muslims in America, a cross-country portraiture project tracing the lives of Muslim communities across the US and Canada. Hussain lives and works in West Sussex.

Guy Gunaratne FRSL is a novelist, playwright, and contemporary artist whose work spans literature, theatre, and moving image. Born in London to Sri Lankan parents, Gunaratne explores identity, migration, and cultural memory through politically charged and formally inventive storytelling. Their debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City (2018), won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize, and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, while also being longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Their second novel, Mister, Mister (2023), expanded this vision globally, interrogating extremism, surveillance, and the politics of representation. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024, Gunaratne has also published essays in Granta, The Guardian, and Wasafiri. Their wider practice includes theatre and moving-image work, notably Here Is The Brick (2025), produced with Mahtab Hussain. They divide their time between London and Malmö.