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.