About Forefront
Forefront is a cultural initiative that brings together the art world and built environment through collaborative programming and interdisciplinary exchange. Founded by design advocate Professor Sadie Morgan OBE and developer Dicle Guntas, Forefront operates as both a creative platform and a cultural task force, creating space for dialogue between artists, architects, developers and landowners.
Based at its gallery headquarter at Milieu, 134 Old Street in London, Forefront commissions exhibitions, installations, residencies and events that explore how art and architecture can influence one another. Its focus is on experimentation, process and long-term cultural value, particularly within overlooked or transitional urban spaces. Forefront aims to foster generous frameworks for collaboration that spark innovation, conversation and new cultural approaches
The team
Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, Co-founder
Sadie co-founded the RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architecture practice dRMM. She serves on several advisory boards including the National Infrastructure Commission, Homes England and the 1851 Royal Commission. She is currently a Professor at the University of Westminster and co-founder of the Quality of Life Foundation, a charity dedicated to improving health and wellbeing through the built environment.
Dicle Guntas, Co-founder
Dicle is the managing director of HGG London, a property development company dedicated to creating sustainable, design-led spaces for living, working and gathering. For more than a decade, Dicle has been an active patron of arts organisations and a committed supporter of emerging artists. She has served on juries for the RIBA Awards and the BD Architect of the Year Awards, and contributes her expertise as a New London Architecture (NLA) Sounding Board member.
Thea Rogers, Gallery & Projects Manager
Thea Rogers is Gallery and Projects Manager at Forefront. She was previously Prime Operations Manager at The Modern House, where she led operations and client relationships across design-led projects. Her work brings together cultural programming, project delivery and partnership development, with a focus on connecting art, architecture and place. She holds a degree in English Literature and a postgraduate diploma in Modernities: Literature, Culture and Theory from the University of Glasgow.
Creative Advisory Panel
Ella Snell, Deputy Director, New Contemporaries; Founder, Art School Plus; Trustee, Henry Moore Foundation
Emily King, Curator, Writer and Design Historian
Farshid Moussavi, Founder, Farshid Moussavi Architecture; Royal Academician; Professor in Practice of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Jon Sharples, IP and Art Lawyer, Howard Kennedy LLP; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Southwark Park Galleries
Kiera Blakey, Director, New Contemporaries; Associate curator, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park
Ptolemy Mann, Artist; Represented by Tristan Hoare Gallery UK, Findlay Galleries USA, Taste Contemporary CH and Gallery Lau DE