SPEAKERS S arah C ooney Sarah Cooney is a Tees Valley based painter. She received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2008. Recent exhibitions include Creekside Open 2019 selected by Brian Griffiths, A.P.T Gallery, London and Beep Painting prize exhibition at Swansea College of Arts, 2018. She is a founding member of the artist led group Conversations in Painting.
G ordon D alton Gordon Dalton is an artist based in Saltburn. He recently completed an URRA residency in Argentina, with recent shows including MIMA, Middlesbrough; Bank Art; Los Angeles; Del Infinito, Buenos Aires; JirSandel, Copenhagen and Arcade, London. He is currently Creative Factory Producer. Creative Factory is Middlesbrough Council’s Great Place Tees Valley project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England.
N arbi P rice Narbi Price is a painter. He was the Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the year 2018 and was the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017. He was featured in Phaidon’s ‘Vitamin P3- New Perspectives in Painting’ and was a prizewinner in the John Moores Painting Prize 2012. He recently completed an AHRC funded PhD at Newcastle University in partnership with Woodhorn Museum.