Antepavilion 2024 Jury

Nima Sardar

Nima was the winner of the last Antepavilion competition in 2021 with AnteChamber: a collapsable Camera Obscura still located on the rooftop display podium of Hoxton Docks. He has worked in a number of eminent London-based architecture practices including Henley Halebrown and Mae and Morris & Company and co-founded Studio-NimaSardar in 2022. He often works in sensitive historic contexts and is currently engaged on a ‘bunker’ extension situated in a strict Swiss conservation area.

Abbas Zahedi

Photograph by Dan Wilton for FT

Abbas is a multi-media artist engaging both theoretical and applied themes, working through installation, sound and social-dynamics. Before completing his MA at Central Saint Martins in 2019 he studied medicine at University College London. He is an associate lecturer at the Royal College of Art.

Recent exhibitions include Nottingham Contemporary (2023) supported by Altrad RMD Kwikform; CAPC, Bordeaux (2022) special commission on the site of Richard Long’s White Rock Line (1990). Abbas has received multiple awards, including Artangel, Making Time in response to climate emergency (2023); the Frieze Artist Award (2022); Serpentine Galleries’ Support Structures for Support Structures (2021).

Jacqueline Stephen

Jacqueline is an associate at Niall McLaughlin Architects where she has worked since 2014. Her delivered projects include West Court for Jesus College, Cambridge and the Faith Museum extension to Auckland Castle, on a site of significant archaeological interest. Recently she has been working on the design of a burial ground and ceremonial pavilion which references ancient structures and landforms.

Ed Moseley

Ed is the Co-Founder & Director of London Structures Lab. He has been advising the shortlisted teams on their entries since the inception of the Antepavilion programme and leading the engineering design in collaboration with the winners. His experience includes involvement from concept to construction of art and cultural projects such as the Megafon Pavilion at the Winter Olympics in 2014 and then the Hyundai Pavilion for the Winter Olympics in 2018.

Russell Gray

Russell is the principal director of Shiva Ltd, which is the primary sponsor of Antepavilion. Shiva is a long-term building conservation and investment company working exclusively with sites and buildings of special cultural, architectural or historic interest. In the course of this activity it promotes and engages widely with pure and applied arts and traditional craftsmanship.