Marie d’Elbée is an artist and cultural producer specialising in developing creative communities around ambitious art projects. Having worked with hundreds of artists and participants, she is also the founder of London’s Open Source Contemporary Arts. She has led the Gillett Square Gillett Square Arts Centre proposal for the urban renewal project  commissioned by Hackney Council and Academy of Urbanism, founded the Gillett Square London platform for collaboration and exchange as well as Stamford X Studios. She holds an MA from Central Saint Martin’s and has worked as an art critic and writer for a decade.