Maya Ramsay is an award winning artist, writer and curator. For over 20 years her work has focussed on the subjects of conflict, unauthorised migration and the climate emergency. Recent exhibitions of her work include 'All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain' (2024-25) and ‘Ashes to Ashes’ at the Migration Museum, London, 2023. Her work features in numerous publications including the book '50 WOMEN SCULPTORS’. Her recent articles include ‘The Unimaginable, the Unthinkable and the Unknown’ in The Work of Art in the Age of Planetary Destruction, (CUSSH, 2023) and ‘Assessing the Impact of Art in Relation to Migrant Deaths at Sea’ in the ‘Encyclopaedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism’ (Edward Elgar, 2023).
Federica Mazzara is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication at the University of Westminster. She is the author of Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Borders Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion (Peter Lang, 2019). Her research revolves around migration in relation to cultural expression, with a focus on visual art.