Dr Georgia Haseldine is Curator of the V&A East Storehouse (opening 2024), a radically reinvented collections store that will offer visitors unprecedented access to the V&A’s collection of art, design and performance. She led The Question of Clay research project with Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates which included the setting up of a temporary brickworks and performance space in east London and instigating a community-led research and making project in Stoke-on-Trent reimagining Wedgwood’s anti-slavery medallion. Julia Ellen Lancaster is an artist working with clay and ceramics. Lancaster’s work is driven by a compulsion to respond to emotional intuition, and externalise the impression that a time, or the feeling a space and its contents, provoke. Lancaster works with clay and collected materials, exposing them to heat to alter their make up and structure, and as a tool to suggest and explore scientific, geological and sociological histories. Her current, solo, show 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ at m2 Gallery, London, runs to 20 November 2022.