artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Salvatore Fiorello	Salvatore Fiorello’s paintings depict depopulated urban spaces that are devoid of people but full of atmosphere. However they are anything but menacing as he uses bright colours: purples, pink, aqua and oranges. The result is a set of paintings that look like the backdros to a kitsch 1960s psychedelic film noir. Fiorello studied at UCE, Birmingham (BA Fine Art Painting) and Royal College of Art (MA Painting). He lives and works in UK.
	Sam Winston	Winston's typographic stories became widely collectable after he started selling them through London's ICA. His books can now be found in the special collections of MoMA New York, the Tate Galleries London, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Library. Winston is also a visiting lecturer at various universities including The Royal College of Art and Camberwell College of Art. He has written for Baseline magazine and worked on various design projects, most recently the third Muse album, and typographic consultancy work for Ogilvy & Mather. Winston studied at Camberwell College of Art - BAhons Graphic Design and Plymouth College of Art National Diploma. He lives and works in London.
	Samuel Douglas	He lives and works in London and is currently in his first year studying for an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art. He studied his BA in 1999-2000 at University of Brighton. Selected exhibitions include RCA Interim Show. In 2002 he won the Star Gallery Exhibition Award.
	Sarah Bridgland	Sarah Bridgland is known for her pop-up assemblages of miniscule paper cut outs - comic book speech-bubbles, graphic symbols, flower watercolours all competing for our attention and switching back and forth between popular culture and the history of art. This 3 dimensional clutter of scalped paper meticulously overflows out of vessels in the form of gunned toy soldiers and matchboxes. Bridgland’s work fascinates by transforming her outsiderist obsession with the insubstantial through a mesmerising level of deft technique into objects that are extreme, ordered, detailed and intense.
	Sarah Dwyer	She lives and works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. In 2004 she won The Sheldon Bergh Award, RCA; in 2003 The Basil Alkazzi Travel Award to New York, RCA
	Sarah Jeffries	I am fascinated with the way that interiors work on many different levels: At face value they can be both beautiful and ugly, on a another level they can provide a narrative to the viewer about current fashions and locations in time. Deeper still, they can give clues as to the lifestyle and class of the occupants. By placing incongruous figures in certain interiors I am interested in exploring the stereotype of perfection, harmony and order in middle and upper class society. She is based in London and studied at the Royal College of Art.
	Sarah Sparkes	Sparkes wallpaper installations reference the history and popular culture of wall papers in England. The ‘pub wallpapers’ dedicated to a particular leitmotif- the artist’s drinking haunts in her home town of Reading, are a homage to the fabulously grotesque wallpapers that grace the walls of these establishments. The labour-intensive process of hand-painting each repeat motif, is both an obsessive and cathartic act, an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of memories that are held within each building. She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art & Design, Kingston University and Middlesex University.
	Shelagh Wakely	Shelagh Wakely’s work has for many years been concerned with the ephemeral and transitory. Before studying painting and screen printing at Chelsea College of Art (1958-62) studied agriculture. 1963-68 freelance textile designer, made large scale screen prints and clothes also ttaught in UK, Ghana & Pakistan. 1968-71 held a research fellowship at the RCA,London. Since 1972, when she started making sculpture, showing & making installations in galleries. 1989-99 video documentaries of artist's works for Henry Moore Trust and others.Recently commissioned to make large scale works for private & public buildings. Works and lives in London.
	Shepard Fairey / OBEY	Controversial, from California
	SHI-CHI LIN	I attempt in my work, both abstract and figurative, to demonstrate a physicality and energy that can transcend the static medium to glimpse the roiling emotions of the subject, be they sensations of guilt, melancholy, aggression etc. Most of my figurative paintings are portraits, in which I use light or fluid effects to see how sophisiticated human expressions can be captured. I might, for example, place the sitter in a consciously dramatic evironment, such as entrapped in a cage formed by light and shade, or perhaps with his features partially obscured by a semi-opaque liquid that has overtones of bodily fluids and brings out issues of sexuality.
	Shuby	Dolores Del Rio is standing in the corner holding the Velvet Underground. Close up. Now we can admire the Pin Up standing in a row. Next chapter: smiley Babes are dancing alone and look...they are forming a rosette, WOW! Welcome to Eefos.
	SickBoy	He’s a free hand artist. He doesn’t use stencils. That makes him a painter, the only difference with the traditional definition being the use of spray cans instead of brushes.
	Simon Ward	Working at night, the darkened room is illuminated by a projection of light. A flatbed scanner becomes the artists tool for representation. The process involves the act of placing the object in direct contact with the cleaned transparent surface of the scanner. An indexical trace recorded by the passing beam of light. Through conversations and untold stories, inanimate objects that embody a sense of memory and touch are selected and removed from their origin. The result is an image of meticulous detail and clarity suspended within a dark relief.
	Simon Woolham	Fundamental to Woolham’s work is an attempt to unravel the fragile processes of memory, specifically the relationship between events, and the sites they occupy; bringing to light uncanny irreducible playgrounds of fantasy and adventure. He lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 Paper Cuts, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, London. Solo exhibitions at the Lowry, Manchester and Hoxton Distillery. 2005-2006 Artist Residency, Baltic, Gateshead. He is currently on a residency/commission in Ireland.
	Sjors Willems	Education. 2004-2006 BA Fine Art in Education, Academy of Visual Arts, Maastricht. 1999-2004 BA Fine Art (Printmaking), School of the Arts, Utrecht. Selected Exhibitions. 2007 Koningskerkje, Vierlingsbeek. Paintings, solo exhibition. 2007 Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, London. Paintings, group exhibition. 2005 Printmaking Gallery, Den Bosch. Jung talent 2005, Printmaking, group exhibition. 2004 Jaarbeurs, Utrecht. Printmaking / Painting, group exhibition. 2003 RMIT, Melbourne. Mixed media, group exhibition. 2003 Academy gallery, Utrecht. Printmaking, group exhibition. 2003 Printmaking Gallery, Utrecht. Printmaking, group exhibition
	Sophie Horton	“Sophie Horton uses knitted wool on an architectural scale, challenging its usual associations with domestic femininity. Horton’s installations often interrupt the viewing of a place, drawing attention to features and describing volumes in space. In her hands, the softest of materials can become a barrier, each small stitch joining together to form a massive structure." Bryony Bond Art and Perception catalogue Sherborne House 2006. www.sophiehorton.org
	Space Invader	Space invader is an urban myth!
	Spencer Murphy	He lives and works in London and studied BA Photography, Falmouth College of Arts; Btech, Kent Institute of Art and Design. Selected exhibitions include:2007 Wastelands (Solo exhibition), AOP Gallery, London. 2006-7 Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London. 2006 Family Album, Centre for Photography of Woodstock, New York; Autobiography, Darmstadter Tage Der Fotografie, Germany. 2002 Group Exhibition, Metro Imaging, London. In 2006 he was the Winner of AOP Bursary; he was Shortlisted for NPG Photographic Portrait Prize; Commended, Creative Review ‘Creative Futures’. 2002 he was the Winner of Metro Bursary.
	Stephen Walter	Stephen Walter studied at Middlesex University, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art (2001). He received an award from the Tim Mara Charitable Trust (2001), was awarded the Suny Purchase Travel Award, USA (2001), the Daler Rowney Drawing Prize, RCA, London (2001) and won second prize in The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004. His solo shows include The Foundry (2003), The Electric Palace, Hastings (2003).Photoworks, Deutsche Bank, London (2004-05), and Vertigo Gallery (2005). He lives and works in London.
	Stuart Elliot