Liam Slevin is the artistic director of Middlesbrough Art Weekender. After graduating with a Fine Art degree from Limerick University in 2007, Liam opened his first gallery, theSPACE, in Cork city. In 2009 he opened TACTIC gallery, the first curator led gallery space in Ireland outside Dublin. In 2011 he moved to Berlin and ran several pop up spaces including Klo, and worked with groups such as Salon Bruit and NK Studios. He has taken part in residencies in Iceland, Detroit and Berlin. He moved to Tees Valley in 2016. Liam devises and manages the artistic programme of the The Auxiliary and the Middlesbrough Art Weekender.

Anna Byrne studied scriptwriting and film at Galway Institute of Technology. After graduating she worked in costume and set design in theatre and directed several short films. She moved to Berlin in 2011 to focus on writing and film making. She moved to Tees Valley in 2016. She is the managing director of The Auxiliary and Middlesbrough Art Weekender