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Tim Richardson is the author more than 25 books on landscape topics including the contemporary scene. In his work he has always operated at the intersection of art and the garden. He is currently art critic at The Idler and also continues his work on gardens and landscapes, which have included books on the work of Tom Stuart-Smith and Martha Schwartz, and a genre-defining work on landscape conceptualism entitled Avant Gardeners. He was founder and director of the Chelsea Fringe Festival. 

Dr Becca Voelcker writes on art, film, and visual culture. She earned her PhD at Harvard University in 2021 and is currently a Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2024 Becca was named a BBC New Generation Thinker. Her first book, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction, is a cross-cultural history of eco-political cinema, published by the University of California Press in 2026. The book launched alongside a BBC Radio programme and a curated film season at the Barbican Centre.