Roy Lichtenstein was a groundbreaking artist and key figure in the Pop Art movement. His early paintings, inspired by comic strips and advertisements, mimicked the crude printing processes of newspapers, reinvigorating the American art scene and altering modern art history. Lichtenstein’s success continued with over 5,000 works—paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and murals—celebrated for their wit and invention.

The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous activist artists using bold visuals and statistics to expose bias and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture. Advocating for intersectional feminism and human rights, they disrupt mainstream narratives through street posters, museum interventions, and global exhibitions. Their book, Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, was a top art book of 2020. Their motto: “Do one thing. If it works, do another. If not, keep going!”

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

Jean Spencer, painter, artist, and teacher, was born in Hampshire and attended the Bath Academy of Art (1960–1963), where she was introduced to systematic constructivism by tutors Malcolm Hughes and John Ernest. A member of the London Group since 1964, she later studied at the University of Sussex and taught at Bulmershe College of Higher Education (1968–1988). In the early 1970s, Spencer co-founded the Systems Group with her partner Malcolm Hughes and exhibited regularly in the Systems Exhibitions (1969–1973). As the youngest member, she contributed to the group’s peak at the 1972 Arts Council touring exhibition, shown first at the Whitechapel. Spencer exhibited widely both in Britain and internationally