Sharon Wales
is an art teacher and a practising artist based in London. She has a degree in Teaching and Fine Art from the University of Southampton where she specialised in painting. The Dutch Vanitas artists from the seventeenth century particularly influenced her own work. A further degree in Visual Art at Winchester School of Art led to her interest in video and digital media. Her degree show and dissertation at Winchester explored themes concerning phenomenology. Sharon’s original work has been exhibited in a number of galleries and exhibitions and has been selected for National Art competitions. They include the ArtSway Open in the New Forest and at the Sherbourne House, Colour Chemistry Open, in Dorset. The aim of her work is to explore the uncertain boundaries between reality, illusion and imagination and thus challenge perception. Her most recent collaborative work with Simon Duff embraces urban and rural themes using mixed media.
Simon Duff
is a writer, sound engineer and artist based in London. He has a degree in Art History from Brookes University, Oxford where he wrote a dissertation on the formation of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Having graduated he wrote as an art and music critic for Contemporary magazine. Currently he writes for the Saatchi Gallery website and a number of magazines including Pro Sound News Europe, Hi-Fi News and Installation Europe focusing on technology, music and sound in all its forms. His music and sound design has been used on TV programmes for Channel 4, the National Geographic Channel, Resonance FM radio and across a variety of theatre productions. Simon has been collaborating with Sharon Wales on art projects for the last four years. His primary interest in art is using the mediums of photography, sound and painting to capture notions of inner political space and different textures found at unusual locations.