Dave Beech is a member of the art collective Freee, writer and Professor of Art at Valand Academy, Gothenburg. His recent book Art and Value, published by Brill 2015, was shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize. His work had been exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial and the Liverpool Biennial. He is a regularly contributor to Art Monthly, co-authored the book The Philistine Controversy, Verso (2002) with John Roberts, edited the MIT/Whitechapel book Beauty, and is a founding co-editor of Art and the Public Sphere journal.