George Watson (b.1986) is an artist based in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, with Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Mutunga whakapapa and Moriori hokopapa. George has a Bachelor of Media Arts from Waikato Institute of Technology, Honours in Art History from the University of Auckland, a MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, and in 2019 completed the Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Recent exhibitions include: Beauty Incarnate, City Gallery Wellinton (2023); Filial, Envy6011 (2022); Kōtiro Emepaea, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (2022); the group exhibition They Covered the House in Stories, Te Tuhi (2021); Manawa i te Kāniwha (in collaboration with Abigail Aroha Jensen), Artspace Aotearoa (2021), and Eternal Girlhood of the Settler State (in collaboration with Tyson Campbell), May Fair Art Fair (2020). 

Peter Simpson (b. 1990) is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau of Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato- Tainui, Ngāti Pāoa and Ngāti Tamaterā descent. He is currently a PhD candidate at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuro Massey University. He completed an MFA at the Slade School of Art, University College London in 2019, was a participant within the Maumaus ISP programme 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, and completed a BFA at the Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London in 2013. 

Recent exhibitions include: Literature’s Arrival to the Pacific, Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin (2021); Te mātauranga ō te Pākehā (The knowledge of the Pākehā), Mayfair Art Fair (2020), Olaf is an Indigenous name, Lacuna, Copenhagen (2019); A retreat in time, Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2017).