COLLABORATORS
CALCAGNO CULLEN
Calcagno Cullen is a socially-engaged artist, arts administrator, curator, and educator. After receiving her MFA at the University of Cincinnati in 2007 she moved to San Francisco, where she served as the Education Associate for School and Teacher Programs at SFMOMA and Gallery Director for Adobe Books Backroom Gallery.
After return to Cincinnati in 2014 with the goal of developing community and fostering positive social change through contemporary art, she co-founded, with her husband, Geoffrey Cullen, Wave Pool, a gallery, socially engaged residency program, studio, and community space.
Cal’s life mission is to create empathy and understanding through art. She has found that being multi-disciplinary and open to all mediums and avenues to success allows her research, artistic practice, and life on the whole to be much richer and more fruitful as a result.
PAIGE NICK
Paige has been a copywriter in advertising for 20 years, where she has worked on brands like Allan Gray, kulula.com, Santam, BMW, Nashua, Cosmopolitan and Levi’s Jeans. She has won numerous local and international awards including Loeries, and two Loerie Grand Prix, awards at Cannes, The Art Director’s Club of New York, Clios, and recognition at D&D.
Her first novel is A Million Miles from Normal (Published, Penguin 2010) and her second romantic comedy is This Way Up, (Penguin, 2011).
Paige is one third of the Helena S. Paige trio, whose first choose your own adventure erotic novel, A Girl Walks into a Bar, launched in July 2013. Paige also has a weekly column in The Sunday Times called A Million Miles from Normal, and she has a smutty and ridiculous blog which is also called A Million Miles from Normal.
KARIN BARRY
Karin began her career at TBWA Hunt Lascaris in its heyday in the late 90’s, where she got to work with the best creative minds in the country. Her very first print ad was for Land Rover, and won a Cannes Silver. Beginners luck, perhaps. In 2003 she moved to Ogilvy Johannesburg, where she was made a Creative Group Head and spent five years extending her creative profile on a number of big local and international brands. In 2007 Karin moved to Cape Town, and to King James CT, where she was the Head of Art for 6 years. For the last four years she has gone freelance with her fabulous writer Paige Nick. They have been a creative team for 10 years.
Karin was invited to judge the Press category at Cannes Awards in 2011; the Press category for The Clio’s in 2012; The Busan ADstars in 2013 and very often present on The Loerie Awards judging panel. In 2010 she was voted number one Art Director in the country by The Loeries Awards. In 2013, Karin was nominated onto the South African Creative Circle ExCo.
And in case you were wondering how she’s stacked up at the awards shows, since that first bit of beginners luck - she’s won her share at Cannes, Clio’s, D&AD, One Show and Art Directors Club, as well as lots of Loeries Awards including 2 Grands Prix.
GAVIN WHITFIELD
Gavin was Executive Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and JWT where he did stellar, much-awarded work for Guinness, Tuffy, VW, SABMiller, Reebok, Smith+Nephew, Scouts, Defy amongst others.
He has won twelve Loerie Awards including two Gold, a silver Eagle Award, several Creative Circle Awards as well as been acknowledged by Diageo with three Regional Marketing Brilliance Awards and a Global Marketing Brilliance Award for his work on Guinness.
Above all, Gavin believes in the unreasonable power of creativity.
KERRY FRIEND
Kerry Friend was Executive Creative Director and Creative Director at both digital agencies, Hellocomputer and Isobar, and more traditional shops like FCB, DDB and Grey. She was the brains behind a bunch of ‘world firsts’, like Joburg Zoo’s live tweeting honey badger and Toyota’s Outdoor Website, as well as the fun Etios Tweets for Sweets Smile Machine, and Hack-a-Thon events.
She's ace at moving outside of the conventional digital space to make amazing new experiences for people, with technology as the bridge between real-life and online.
