Liam Slevin is a creative instigator, sound artist, and artistic director. He is interested in artist communities and ecologies, DIY/T cultures, and building physical and digital spaces for culture and artists to thrive. Alongside Anna Byrne, he co-founded The Auxiliary Project Space C.I.C. (2016) and Middlesbrough Art Week (2017). He also founded and co-directs Sonic Arts Week, represents visual artists on the Creative Place Advisor Group for TVCA, is founding member of Middlesbrough Cultural Partnership, as well as an active member of Tees Valley Festival Network.

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 Week.

Edel O'Reilly is an Irish curator and organiser now working as executive director for The Auxiliary and Middlesbrough Art Week. Informed by a background in artist-led initiatives and collaborative production models, she has worked across Ireland, the UK and Europe. In Belfast, she worked as a co-director at Catalyst Arts and was an associate member of Array Studios. Following post-graduate studies at the Dutch Art Institute, she worked as Curator of Exhibitions at Aalto University, Finland focusing on the strategic development of the university's exhibition activities. She has previously worked within the exhibition, gallery and project teams at Belfast Exposed Photography, Frieze Projects London, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing.

Rachel Deakin is an artist and photographer based in Middlesbrough, her projects are inspired by her immediate environment and include photography, collage, found objects and elements of the everyday. Rachel a studio holder at The Auxiliary Project Space.

Will Hughes is a freelance project manager at the Auxiliary and a multi-disciplinary artist based in Teesside. Their work is conceptually driven by their lived experiences as a queer, non-binary person in the UK, mixing pop culture references with material language to construct moments. They wish to seduce the viewer through often using repetitive mechanical movement, glossy/shiny surfaces and the lens of glamour as a means of storytelling.

Sue Loughlin is an artist whose work is rooted in sculpture, painting and installation, and encompasses education, social engagement, curation and project production. Sue works extensively with art organisations and Cultural Learning Partnerships across the North East and is the founder of MOTHEROTHER, a mutually supportive network for artist parents and carers in the region and has 15 years of experience delivering and leading art education both regionally and internationally. Sue was awarded a Creative Development Fellowship by Sunderland Culture in 2019, completed The NewBridge Project's Collective Studio Programme in 2020, and the UNION 23 Social Practitioner Programme from the Northern School of Creativity and Activism in 2023.

Fiona Cameron studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art. Fiona is a studio holder at the John Marley Centre. Her practice is multidisciplinary and is situated in installation, drawing and writing.

Kypros is an artist and occasional film maker and curator. His arts practice examines the role that science and technology plays in how we view and interact with the social, political, and material world, historically, in the present, and with an eye to the future. He has been collaborating with Liam Slevin, Anna Byrne and the team at The Auxiliary helping shape and curate Middlesbrough Art Week since 2019. He is currently an AHRC candidate for a practice-led PhD - Untangling AI - that investigates the discourses and practices around Artificial Intelligence at Newcastle University, UK.

Claire Feeley is a curator, writer and producer based in Scotland; she has held senior curatorial roles, devised exhibition programmes and public artworks globally through her roles at British Council, the Barbican, Oslo Pilot, Folkestone Triennial, Situations and the Serpentine Gallery as well as independent projects through self-initiated platforms.