Xenobe Purvis was born in Tokyo in 1990. She read English Literature at Oxford University, has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and was part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. She is a writer and literary researcher, and her essays have been published by The TLS, The London Magazine, and others, as well as in collections in the US and UK.
Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing centre storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.
Michel Beurdeley waa an expert in 18th century French and Far Eastern art. An who worked with the Courts of Appeal. He was an author and with Maurice Rheims, created the magazine "Connaissance des Arts".
Cécile Beurdeley was an author and expert in Chinese ceramics.
Iside Carbone holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology, UCL. Her research interests focus on Chinese art and material culture in particular, and on museum ethnography as well as anthropology of art in general. Initiator of the project, Asia Collections Network (ACN), she is also co-founder and director of the non-profit association, Asia Collections Network – Europe (ACN – Europe). Iside is member of EACS (European Association for Chinese Studies), EAAA (European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology) and ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies).
The Irish Society of Botanical Artists are a group of botanical artists and other people who are interested in botanical art. In May 2012, at the invitation of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, they met together and decided to begin the process of preparing to found the Irish Society of Botanical Artists. On 1 March 2014, the Formation Meeting took place at the Visitor Centre at Glasnevin.