Sir Nicholas GrimshawSir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PRA
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw graduated with Honours from the Architectural Association in 1965 and immediately started his own practice. His buildings of the 60s and 70s gained recognition for their innovative approach to construction and detailing.
Grimshaw was formed in 1980, over time cementing a reputation for rational building that draws on rigorous engineering combined with the fundamental principles of architecture and a profound understanding of materials. Sir Nicholas has lectured in 21 countries worldwide. He is a registered architect in England, France, Germany and Spain and the state of New York.
Sir Nicholas was elected a Royal Academician in 1994 and President of the Royal Academy in 2004. He is also an Honorary fellow of the AIA. He was knighted in 2002 and continues to actively lead his practice as Chairman of the Board.
Deanna Petheridge CBE
Deanna Petherbridge is currently an Associate Professor in Drawing to the University of Lincoln and the former Arnolfini Professor of Drawing at the University of the West of England, Bristol. A London-based artist, her practice is entirely linear, either series of drawings or large-scale works in pen and ink exploring architectural and political themes. She has exhibited widely and her work is in major collections in Britain, Europe and the United States. She has designed for the Royal Opera House and Sadlers Wells in London and undertaken large-scale mural projects, such as a four-storey commission for the concert hall in Birmingham’s International Convention Centre 1991. She has undertaken a number of international lecture tours in India and South East Asia for the British Council, and has also lectured widely and participated in conferences in Australia. As an art critic in the 1970’s and 1980’s she wrote for major art and architecture periodicals and the daily press, including the Financial Times, Art Monthly, Architectural Design and Architectural Review and she still undertakes regular radio reviews of art events. She was a prime mover in the Art and Architecture movement of the 1980’s in Britain and her book Art for Architecture was published in 1988. She has curated exhibitions including The Primacy of Drawing: An
Artist’s View, a touring exhibition for the Hayward Gallery, London in 1992 and The Quick and the Dead:
Artists and Anatomy 1998, also for the Hayward, which toured Britain and was mounted in an extended form in Geneva, Switzerland.
She was awarded a CBE for services to drawing in 1996, and was Professor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art from 1995-2001 where she launched the Centre for Drawing Research, the first PhD programme in Drawing in the UK, and was responsible for a series of international lecture programmes. In 2001/2 she was awarded a year’s research scholarship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles to work on a long-term book project, a thematic and trans-historical study of the practice and theory of drawing. An exhibition of drawings was exhibited at the Getty in June 2002. As a result of her three-month residency in the Drawing department of Monash University, an exhibition entitled Two Cities: Two Modernities was held in 2003. Her book the Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice will be published in 2009 by Yale University Press.
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE
Posy Simmonds
A British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the cartoons Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005-2006), both later published as books[1]. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th and 19th Century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.
