CC Insight Evening – Visual Arts
Tuesday 18 March, 6.00pm – London South Bank
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Join us for an exclusive Visual Arts Insight event, where leading experts from the creative world share their stories and insights. Hear from a renowned portrait artist exhibiting at the National Portrait Gallery, a multi-disciplinary Creative Director and Stylist with clients like Nike, Adidas, and Paul Smith, a world-famous architect, and a top interior designer behind London’s iconic properties. Plus, a visual artist, animator, and storyteller whose credits include Ghostbusters, Chicken Run, and The Simpsons Movie, as well as a cutting-edge digital Art Director shaping the future of creative technology. Don’t miss the chance to learn from the best in the industry.
Harris Elliott
A Multi-Disciplined Creative Director and Stylist with 20-year experience working at senior level within the Luxury Fashion, Art and Music Industries. Harris has curated acclaimed exhibitions celebrating the History of Black fashion at Somerset House (Return of the Rude Boy 2014 and The Missing Thread 2024). Clients include Nike, Adidas, Puma, Paul Smith, Gorillaz, Kasabian, Pharrel Williams.
Harris has international experience as a Cultural Curator, Creative Director, Stylist, Art Director, Consultant for Design-Led Brands, Panel Moderator, Content Creator, Casting, Judge for D&AD, Senior Lecturer in Fashion, Identity & Culture at The Royal College of Art & Central Saint Martins. Harris is excels at creating an artistic design-led vision, mobilizing teams, communicating efficiently and collaboratively with clients to create impactful memorable campaigns and brand experiences. Reputation is of a visionary cultural curator and opinion former in the fashion, socio political and design worlds.
“Harris Elliott is a true talent. He designs, curates, styles, creates and is a gentleman with it.” – Vanessa Kingori MBE, British Vogue Publisher. “Whenever I work with Harris, he always innovates and complements what I do musically with Style.” Damon Albarn, Musician, Record Producer.
Sarah Jane Moon
A New Zealand born British painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Sarah’s work explores identity, gender and connection to place. Working at scale, her paintings are suffused with bold colour, dynamic surface and gestural use of her chosen medium: oil.
Her work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Soho House and the James Wallace Trust.
She has exhibited widely, including with the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. As a prize winner in the Queer Britain Art Awards and recipient of the Arts Charitable Trust Award and the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture her work has consistently been recognised for its ambition and singularity. It has also been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper*, Studio International and other publications.
She is Chair of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters.
Raluca Rugina
An interior designer and architect with over 20 years of experience in residential architecture and high-end interiors. Raluca’s creative flair and design ethic have been shaped by working with some of the UK’s leading interior design studios.
As Project Lead at 1508 London and later as the Design Director at Taylor Howes, Raluca has consistently served as the driving creative force behind prestigious residential developments and private homes in London and abroad. Notable mentions are Chelsea Barracks, the Old War Office, Knightsbridge Gardens and the recently awarded Charles Street development in Mayfair.
Raluca is the founder of Studio Mundi, an interior design practice created in 2021, driven by a passion for contemporary design, a love for authentic and timeless spaces, and a commitment for crafting interiors that reflect individuality and inspire a sense of belonging.
Dragos Rugina
Dragos is the founder of RUAA, a multidisciplinary office specializing in architecture, computational design and BIM. His approach aims at providing creative and technical excellence at different scales and across a wide variety of building typologies.
His methodology relies on the integration of computation, science and emerging technologies in the design process. By applying rigorous methods of analysis and optimization, he combines innovative thinking and efficient production, whilst improving the flow of information, knowledge and culture.
Dragos holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Emergent Technologies and Design Program. His deep understanding of practical and theoretical architectural matters, alongside his critical thinking and passion for technology, have all been important driving forces of design throughout the years.
Carlos Lutterbach
Carlos is a visual artist, animator, and storyteller in the film industry. He has worked in various capacities, such as story artist and animator as well as animation supervisor, also including contributions to design and visual development. He has been involved in a variety of creative projects, particularly in animated and live action features. Carlos Lutterbach is known for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), Chicken Run: The Dawn of the Nugget (2023), Tom and Jerry (2021), Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) and The Simpsons Movie (2007).
Reinette de Villiers
Rei de Villiers is a freelance design consultant with 25 years’ experience ranging across multiple creative fields. From product design, branding, fashion and events to more traditional art practices such as pottery and screen printing. Currently she runs her own freelance practice. She is passionate about sharing her love for all things design and art with everyone she can and hopes in future be able to teach design full time.
