Jac Semmler is foremost a plant lover. Known for her big laugh, Jac tends to Super Bloom—a creative plant practice that brings dynamic, living beauty and diversity to landscapes, places, and creative projects, exploring gardening as an immersive art form. Her first book, Super Bloom: A Field Guide to Flowers for Every Gardener, was published in 2023. Jac is a respected horticulturalist and recognized innovator in dynamic planting design. As a plant advocate, she shares garden dreams and schemes as a regular contributor, curator, and “gardener in residence” to institutions, festivals, radio, podcasts, and publications, including Wonderground.
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DJ Semtex hosts the UK's premiere hip-hop show on BBC Radio 1Xtra every Friday. He has interviewed the most significant names in hip-hop, DJ'ed on every continent, performed on stage with the likes of Nas, Rick Ross, Iggy Azalea, and Dizzee Rascal, toured with legends such as the Wu-Tang Clan, and opened for a plethora of artists from Macklemore to Dela Soul. He is currently the director of artist development at Sony Music.
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Katie Service is a beauty expert and editorial beauty director at Harrods. Previously, she was beauty editor for ES Magazine, Sunday Times Style, and InStyle, and has contributed to Vogue China, Vogue Japan, and London Fashion Week Daily. She also cofounded The Beauty Conversation, a beauty based consultancy collective.
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Sean Sexton is an Irish-born photographic collector. His previous books include The Irish: A Photohistory.
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is the independent charity that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the global center for learning about and experiencing the works, life, and times of the world’s best-known writer. Through the historic Shakespeare family homes, internationally designated museum collections, and award-winning learning programs, the trust attracts approximately three-quarters of a million visitors each year.
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Andrew Shapland is Curator of the Aegean World and Classical Greek collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Adrian Shaughnessy is a graphic designer, writer, and senior tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. He has written numerous books, including a compendium of his design journalism, Scratching the Surface, and monographs devoted to designers Herb Lubalin and Ken Garland. He regularly contributes to design publications and blogs such as Design Observer, Eye, Creative Review, and Design Week. In 1988, Shaughnessy cofounded design studio Intro; today he runs ShaughnessyWorks, a consultancy combining art direction, writing, editing, and lecturing, and is a codirector of Unit Editions. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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Jim Shaughnessy is an American photographer. He lives in Troy, New York.
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Catherine Shaw is an independent architecture, design and art critic and the author of the Wallpaper* Tokyo City Guide.
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Garry J. Shaw is an Egyptologist and travel writer who regularly writes for the Art Newspaper and has contributed to Apollo magazine, History Today, Current World Archaeology, and Timeless Travels. He is the author of The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends.
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Ros Byam Shaw is a freelance journalist who writes on design and interiors for the World of Interiors and House and Garden. She is the author of Farrow & Ball Living with Colour and Farrow & Ball Decorating with Colour, along with numerous other books on historic houses and interiors.
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Maisie Paradise Shearring is an illustrator. She is the recipient of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair International Award for Illustration 2015.
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Julian Sheather is a writer and ethicist. He is also a consultant and adviser in ethics and human rights to several leading national and international medical organizations.
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Leslie Sherr has written extensively about architecture, design, and gardens. As a brand strategist, she has worked for several leading communication design firms, most recently C&G Partners
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James Sherwood is a London-based style writer, broadcaster, and curator. Currently editor-at-large for The Rake magazine, he has written for the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune, among others, and is the author of Jewelry for Gentlemen, Bespoke, and Henry Poole & Co.
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Akira Shibutami is a curator at the Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Japan.
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M. Kathryn Shields is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Guilford College, North Carolina.
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Richard Shiff is chair in art at the University of Texas at Austin. His seminal publication Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art explored the relationship between late nineteenth-century artists and their subjective relation to reality as a source for their art.
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Shunsuke Shiinoki is a photographer and cofounder of the floral atelier Jardins des Fleurs.
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Ami Shin is an award-winning illustrator based in South Korea. She graduated from the Cambridge School of Illustration in 2015 and went on to win the AOI award for new talent in 2016. She is the illustrator and author of Mice in the City: London and Mice in the City: New York.
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Matthew Shlian is an artist, paper engineer, and founder of the Initiative Artist Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work extends from drawings to large-scale installations to collaborations with leading researchers and scientists. His work for the National Science Foundation explores paper-folding structures on the macro level translated to the nano-scale. His client list includes Apple, P&G, Facebook, Levi’s, Sesame Street, and the Queen of Jordan.
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Richard Shone has been Editor of the Burlington Magazine since 2003 and is the author of several books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art.
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Robert Shore is the author of several books about contemporary art and photography, including Beg, Steal and Borrow: Artists Against Originality, Andy Warhol, and Yayoi Kusama. He worked for many years as an arts reviewer and as the editor of Elephant magazine.
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Yun Shu is dedicated to the study of consciousness and uses language and culture as tools for connection and healing. Born in Shanghai, she was exposed to the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and fungi from a young age. After a successful career in corporate strategy in the banking sector in both Sydney and London, she turned to spiritual inquiries through Vinyasa yoga teacher training.
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