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Anders Petterson is the founder and CEO of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and analysis company established in 2001. A pioneer in using crowd-sourcing techniques to gather art market intelligence, ArtTactic publishes global reports in collaboration with partners including Deloitte, Hiscox, Mishcon de Reya, Sophie Macpherson SML, and Sotheby’s. Anders regularly lectures on art market topics at Sotheby’s Institute, Christie’s Education, and ESA Beirut, and served as a founding board member of PAIAM from 2011 to 2021.
Chimere Cissé is an art collector and founder with over a decade of experience in the cultural sector. She launched ArtKōrero in 2021 to connect commercial engagement with the arts and recently founded STELLA Alliance to increase the visibility of women art collectors. Previously, she represented the United Nations International Trade Centre and held senior roles at Burberry, Hearst UK, Harper’s Bazaar, and ELLE. Dedicated to philanthropy, she actively supports global charities including the British Council and Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation, where she is a long-standing committee chair.
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Jeffrey Boloten is Director of Art Business and Enterprise Programmes at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. He co-founded and serves as Managing Director of ArtInsight Ltd., the educational partner of art market research firm ArtTactic. With a background in law, publishing (including Penguin Books), and institutional roles at the Tate and a London art college, Jeffrey is a frequent speaker on the global art, photography, and art investment markets. He also co-directs Sotheby’s Enterprise Studio and is a founding member of PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market).
Leo Crane is a producer, artist and educator with over 25 years of experience across physical and digital creative industries. He has founded three creative studios and in 2024, established the AI Film Academy, focusing on innovation in contemporary moving image practice. He leads courses in art and art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and serves on the board of Animate Projects. His artistic practice spans animated film, figurative painting and experimental digital works, and his work has been widely exhibited, screened and awarded internationally. He is currently producing his debut feature film The Masterpiece of Tamagata, and is the author of Contemporary Figures in Watercolour (2021).
Mark Davy is the founder of Futurecity, a multidisciplinary agency dedicated to culture-driven placemaking. He has led private sector investment in major art projects including the Crossrail Culture Line, the Illuminated River Project, and the cultural strategy for Wembley Park. Mark is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and contributes to several boards and panels, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Advisory Panel, Hypha Studios, the Land Economic Society, the NLA Expert Panel for Culture, and the National Trust Regional Advisory Group.
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Rebecca Najdowski

Denver, Colorado, USA / Melbourne, Australia

Rebecca Najdowski is an American–Australian artist exploring how imaging technologies shape our perception of nature and the climate crisis. Using analogue and digital processes in experimental ways, her work challenges familiar modes of representation and invites new ways of seeing and sensing the environment.

Drawing on her background in both the American Southwest and her current base in Melbourne, Najdowski’s work reflects a deep awareness of place, ecology, and the entanglement of human and more-than-human systems. Her cameraless photographs, altered negatives, and use of emerging media uncover hidden textures and forms that disrupt familiar narratives of landscape imagery. This reimagining of photographic language transforms images into sites of inquiry—raising questions about our perception of the environment and our role in its care.

Alongside her artistic practice, Najdowski is an educator and researcher who fosters experimental approaches to environmental media. At RMIT University in Melbourne, she guides students in exploring expanded photographic practice, ecological awareness, and immersive technologies such as augmented reality. Her teaching highlights the potential of media not only to represent but also to transform our engagement with the climate emergency.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at the Museum of Australian Photography, Belfast Photo Festival, Aperture Gallery in New York, and the Centre for Creative Photography in Arizona. She has also been recognised through residencies and fellowships such as the Fulbright Program in Brazil, where she developed projects that further investigated the intersections of imaging, environment, and cultural exchange.

✨ Something exciting is on the horizon… stay tuned for September 2026, when Rebecca will be part of a special collaboration with Art Voyage. ✨

Another Nature - video

2025

Another Nature - video still - infrared footage

2025

Another Nature - video still - infrared footage

2025

Surfacing and Ambient Pressure - installation

2023

Photo Credit To Katherine Williams

Deep Learning the Climate Emergency

2022

Echo (touch) - video still

2020

Echo and Surfacing - installation

2020

Photo Credit To Mark Ashkanasy

Surfacing - installation

2020

Photo Credit To Mark Ashkanasy

Ambient Pressure - installation

2020

Photo Credit To Mark Ashkanasy

Highlights

Solo Exhibitions

2022     Deep Learning the Climate Emergency, Fed Square Digital Facade, Melbourne, Australia

2022     Ambient Pressure, Belfast Photo Festival, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2020     Inverted Landscapes, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2018     Interference Pattern, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Australia (two-person)

2018     Interference Pattern, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia (two-person)

2017     Give Them Distance, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

2014     Desert Pictures, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA

2014     untitled (proposition), Steinfeld Warehouse, Tucson, AZ, USA

2013     Above/Below, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, CA, USA

2010    Spectra, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

Select Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2024     New Photobooks from Australia (display), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

2024     Strange Weather, UniSC Art Gallery, Sippy Downs, Australia

2023     Shifter, Museum of Art and Culture, yapang, Lake Macquarie, Australia

2023     Strangers to/in/of/… this world, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

2023     Wild Hope: Conversations for a Planetary Commons, RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2023     Regenerate, Noorderlicht Photo Biennale, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, Netherlands 

2022     Why Color?, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, USA

2022     States of Disruption, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2022     Return to Nature, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2022     Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece 

2021     The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020     Encontros da Imagem — International Photography Festival, Galeria do Paço da UMinho, Braga, Portugal

2020     Posthuman PUBLICS, Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

2019     CURRENTS 2019: Reimagined Histories | Rewritten Futures, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, USA

2019     The Qualities of LIGHT,  The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, USA

2019     Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2018     New Psychedelics, Humble Arts Foundation NY, online

2018     I Can See for Miles, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2017     A Field-Guide to the Stars, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia

2017     #postfuture journey / Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens International Airport, Greece

2017     FORMAT Festival: Habitat, Derby, England

2016     Victory, Gaffa Photo Festival, Gaffa, Sydney, Australia

2015     New Acquisitions, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, USA

2015     Talking to Strangers, Simultan, Timisoara, Romania

2015     Videograma: Territorio y Ciudad, UJTL, Bogota, and Barrio Granada, Cali, Colombia

2015     Digital Native Film Festival, The Front, New Orleans, LA, USA

2015     Radical Color, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, USA

2014     Fauna, Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, USA

2014     Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England

2014     Set in Motion: Video Art & Experimental Film, Purdue University Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, IN, USA

2014     Trestle Video Art Screening, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2014     X Media Art Monographic Show, Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia

2014     Return of the Winter Wrens, Nightingale Gallery, East Oregon University, La Grande, OR, USA

2013     Crystal Palace, Center for the Digital Arts, SUNY Westchester Com College, Peekskill, NY, USA

2013     Faculty Exhibition, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ, USA

2013     Wood Anniversary, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, USA

2013     Thinking Like the Universe, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA

2012    InLight, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA

2012    Crystal Palace, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT, USA

2012    New Codes* / Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece

2012    Kaleidoscope, ArtPadSF, Hungryman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2011    Hypothesis, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010    Peripheral Vision, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010    Golden State, RVCA, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010    Everything Never Goes Away, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Ft. Bragg, CA, USA

2010    MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010    Hearsay of the Sun, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010    Groundswell, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA

Residencies

2019    Banff Centre Artist Residency “Digital Promises”, Banff, Canada

2013/15    Artist Fellow, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

2014    Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2013    Artist Residency, Signal Fire, Montana

2013    Artist Residency, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York

2012    Artist Residency, Signal Fire, Oregon, USA

2010/11  Fulbright Fellowship, Installation Art, Brazil

2010/11 Artist Residency, CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Press

2022    Widisto, Aushaf. “Postscript for a Postscript.” Review of SPECTRA: Multiplicity 2022, Australian Network for Art & Technology. Web.

2022    “The Voice of Nature: Rebecca Najdowski.” ARTDOC Magazine, June 8. Web.

2021    Neave, Kate. “Future Refresh: A Studio Visit with Rebecca Najdowski” for “Unearthed: Eco-visionaries” series, OpenLab (interview). Web.

2021    Dunne, Matt. “Rebecca Najdowski.” Tending to the Garden (interview). Web.

2019    Hernandez, Ciel. “Weathering Photographs: Ambient Pressure by Rebecca Najdowski.” Lomography Magazine, April 15. Web.

2019    Lachowskyj, Cat. “Ambient Pressure.” LensCulture. Web.

2015    Crum, Maddie. “Meet the Contemporary Photographers Experimenting with ‘Radical Color’.” The Huffington Post, May 25. Web.

2015     Kail, Ellyn. “Electrifying Photograms Made from Desert Minerals, Flora, and Fauna.” Feature Shoot, April 23. Web.

2013    Motley, John. “Signal Fire Heats up Artists’ Connection to Nature, Wood Anniversary.” Wood Anniversary review, The Oregonian, March 8. Print.

2011    “Photograms by Rebecca Najdowski.” Juxtapoz Magazine, August 29. Web.

2011  Hodgson, Simon. “Moving Pictures: Rebecca Najdowski Reflects on Her Fulbright in Brazil.” California College of Arts News, July 18. Web.

2010     Baker, Kenneth. “Cameraless ‘pictures’.” Peripheral Vision review, San Francisco Chronicle, October 16. Print. 

2010     Tilghman, Parker. “Illusive and Stunning.” Peripheral Vision review, Art Slant, October 11. Web.

2010    Cheng, DeWitt. “Kala Gallery’s Rising Tide.” Groundswell review, East Bay Express, June 9. Web.

2010     Beltrane, JD. “Pay Attention.” CCA MFA exhibition review, SF Gate, May 14. Web.

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