Dr Olivia Meehan is an art historian and object-based teaching specialist. She received her MPhil and PhD in the History of Art from the University of Cambridge. Her graduate research focused on the circulation of cultural material and ideas in early modern Europe and Japan. She has also trained at the V&A Museum, London (International Initiatives) in Creating Innovative Learning Programmes. Since graduating she has worked in museums and galleries in Australia and abroad, and as a lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, Australian National University and University of Melbourne. She also regularly contributes to The World of Interiors and TOAST Magazine, London.


CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Alice Vincent is a internationally-published writer, broadcaster and multi-platform storyteller. Her books include Hark: How Women Listen, and the bestselling Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival and Rootbound, Rewilding a Life, which were longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She is a columnist for The Guardian and The New Statesman, and also writes for Vogue, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times and The Observer.

Dr Lizzie Marx is the Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Marx received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge with the thesis 'Visualising, Perceiving and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art'. She has worked on exhibition projects in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, including Fleeting - Scents in Colour (2021) at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and Vermeer Visits (2024) and Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer (2024) at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

Dr Miya Tokumitsu is an art historian who has written extensively about the cultural values that work holds in the 21st century. A former Fulbright scholar, she holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a contributing editor at The Public Domain Review. She is the author of Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success & Happiness (Regan Arts, 2015).

Harriet Baker is a writer and critic. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Paris Review, The New Statesman, the Financial Times, TLS and Apollo. She is the author of Rural Hours (Allen Lane, 2024), which won Young Writer of the Year Award in 2025.