Firstly we want to say a huge thank you to everyone wo submitted to Zealous Amplify: Future! Our Zealous team loved looking through all of the entries and we are grateful that we get to experience so many stories from so many different creatives.
With that being said, we are so excited to share the judges who will be looking at all of the shortlisted entries.
Lawson Bell
One of the top established art directors in the country. With a keen eye for originality in the contemporary art market space. After successfully acquiring a B. A Honours in History Of Art, this lead to many years of successfully directing established galleries such as Bell Fine Art Ltd for 25 years, Store Street Gallery London and London Contemporary Art Ltd for 12 years with Andrew Stark. As a director, Lawson’s passion stems from wishing to create a platform in which art is celebrated, whether that may be platforming emerging artists or assisting clients in building their art collections with stupendous inspiring works of art. From this expertise Lawson Bell has also hosted and featured as a judge for London Contemporary Art Prize 2018.
Simon Cronshaw
Simon Cronshaw is a Cultural Entrepreneur and Co-founder of REMIX Summits. Since 2012, he has hosted sell-out summits in cities including London, New York, Sydney, Perth, Dubai and Istanbul. REMIX Summits bring together changemakers from different industries to explore the big ideas shaping the future of the creative and cultural industries. Founding Partners include Bloomberg and Google Arts & Culture, and REMIX is attended by thousands of creative leaders from across the creative and cultural sectors, business, technology, policy and media.
Previously Simon was a Co-founder of CultureLabel, which he sold in 2015. When it was founded in 2008, CultureLabel was one of the first major ecommerce sites to sell art online, with affordable art plus artist-designed gifts and homeware from 800+ leading culture brands and artists including Tate, V&A and the Guggenheim. It also provided exclusive e-commerce services for Saatchi Gallery, ICA and 80+ other leading UK galleries. Named by Design Week as one of the Top 50 UK influences in web design, with press reviews including: “A one stop shop for creative commerce” (The Wall Street Journal); “An emporium of desirables” (Vogue); “An aggregator for the arts… One to watch” (Wired).
Simon is currently providing intensive one-to-one mentoring to Creative Entrepreneurs in Australia through two incubator programs developed with Creative Australia and the City of Sydney. He also recently developed the 10-module REMIX Business of Culture online course on income generation and creative entrepreneurship. Simon enjoys leading workshops for a wide range of clients, including a two-day workshop on digital business models for the British Council; quarterly workshops for 90 UK arts leaders in business modelling for Arts Council England; Business Modelling Workshops for 18 creative entrepreneurs across Europe for the EU; plus hundreds of single-day trend briefings and visioning workshops for clients around the world. REMIX also works with a small group of private clients to co-develop entrepreneurial strategies in non-profit arts organisations, unlocking new revenue streams and engaging new audiences. Current clients include the new £437 million London Museum and the new AUD$1.7 billion Melbourne Arts Precinct.
Simon is also an author of several books and papers on creative entrepreneurship, available at https://www.remixsummits.com/books/. This includes Intelligent Naivety (2008, on creative entrepreneurship); REMIX (2012, on trends); Golf, Art & Spa Days (2014, on experience gifts); The Big Ticket Questions (2016, on future-proofing tech); An Army of Superfans (2017, on lifecycle marketing); ‘The Upstarts Need You!’ essay (2021, on supply and demand, cultural entrepreneurship and impact investors).
Ysabel Gregorio De Souza
International art dealer and gallery manager for London Contemporary Art Ltd. Ysabel’s expertise and knowledge of the market has been working and liaising with various artists and art advisors globally for 10 years. Ysabel has obtained B. A Honours in Fine Art, A Brit School and Central St Martin’s alumni and has taken art business courses at Christie’s. Her portfolio of knowledge of the art market also extends through her experience with international auction houses. Ysabel is a firm believer that contemporary art should be accessible to everyone, whether that’s enjoying the beauty of art or exploring the business potential art can offer.
Neil Griffiths
Neil is the CEO and co-founder of Arts Emergency. He work with various stakeholders to set their direction as an organisation and supports their programmes team, fundraising and communications, while managing their finances and legal compliance as a charity.
Millie-Jo MacIver
Millie is Jr Project Coordinator at Games Leadership®, with a professional background in Writing across various mediums and business ownership as a Designer-Maker. She continues to be actively involved in Indie Game Development as a Narrative Designer and Writer, receiving the IG50 2024 Award in the Design & Narrative category.
Rosie Millard
Rosie Millard is an arts journalist, writer and broadcaster. In a varied career she has been BBC Arts Correspondent, Arts editor, theatre critic, columnist, novelist and profile writer. She has completed the 6 Marathon Majors, climbed Kilimanjaro and is about to start a BA Hons degree in French at London University. She likes a challenge!
Phoebe Minson
Phoebe Minson is an artist, writer, and creative strategist focused on storytelling, social change, and creative health. She works at the intersection of art and advocacy, using communication and curation to reimagine systems and amplify underrepresented voices. Alongside her artistic practice, she is Head of External Affairs & Communications at SHiFT, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of young people caught up in, or at risk of, cycles of crime. Phoebe writes on art, culture, and well-being and hosts workshops exploring creativity as a tool for personal and collective transformation.
Andreea Pislaru
Andreea Pislaru (Romania, 1998) is an artist based in Nottingham. Her practice exists in a pluralistic environment between object making, performance and anatomical replication research at NTU School of Art and Design. Andreea’s work investigates forms of embodiment with an emphasis on spectacle of bodies in intense physical and emotional states, voyeuristic pleasure, fetishism, and the manipulation of aesthetic distance in relation to the abject. Andreea sculpts new, reformulated identities, where her objects become a visceral stage for the psyche to perform itself.
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