The Travelling Light Team.

Chiara Williams

Artist Chiara Williams is one half of WW Gallery. Director, curator, organisational genius and general geek, Williams adds glamour and energy to everything she’s involved in. Half Venetian and half Londoner, it was always her ambition to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. Williams grew up between family in Venice, London and Moscow and worked in various galleries and museums, including the Biennale itself. Whilst working in education, Williams’ imagination was dulled and so she returned to her earlier desires, eventually setting up WW Gallery with Wilson. Williams’ theoretical background is in art history and film, she studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and has a slow wit.

Debra Wilson

Artist Debra Wilson is the other half of WW Gallery. Director, curator, technician and all round creative genius, Wilson was born in the port of Plymouth, her father was in the Navy and she spent her whole childhood on the move. At 16 she left home and continued to travel, living and working in Sydney, Zurich and for five years in New York where she was involved in guerrilla-based art happenings. After settling in Hackney and feeling stuck working in education, she began to plan her great escape and decided to finally kick her own ass into setting up a project space with like-minded souls. Wilson’s theoretical background is in art and psychology, she studied at CSM, LCC and UEL and is funny as fook.

Sophie Wilson

The self-styled ‘curatrix’ of Pharos Gallery, Wilson was born and raised in Liverpool. Growing up against a backdrop of the Mersey Beat poets, a riotous music scene and the Liverpool Tate, she was inspired from an early age to work with creative people and the arts . Wilson studied English literature and drama in Sheffield, where she specialized in psychoanalytic theory and made short films. She then travelled down under to get an MA in Curatorship. It was here she gained her experience of the commercial art world in the galleries and auction houses of Sydney, meanwhile forging links with the stars of the Indigenous art community. Back in London, after a period of working in art logistics, Wilson decided to throw caution to the wind and set up her own collective. A handshake, a Hackney horizon and a menthol cigarette later, Pharos was born. Wilson continues to use her business brains in the context of international radio and TV broadcasting, whilst aiming to deconstruct the west end art system from a bunker in E8.

Lisa Farrell

Lisa Farrell is the love child of WW Gallery. A documentary photographer, trainee curator and all round and east London arts groupie, she gained honorary membership at the local Supine Studios where she bumped into Debra Wilson and Chiara Williams. Starting out as nervous intern, she soon progressed to ‘visual communications’ and is now unable to tear herself away from their creative genius and all round hilarity. Lisa will be heading to Central Saint Martins in September 09 to study fine art curation.

Eva Lis

Eva Lis is a Polish born artist living in Hackney, East London. Working across a number of disciplines, including print-making, painting, sculpture and site-specific installation, she prefers to work within a “public dynamic” taking more confrontational approach to social issues. Her past projects include 'The Universe Project' multimedia art project commissioned by the Grimm film production in Oslo; 'Parade of the Denizens' a horse drawn art exhibition in collaboration with Ed Pien; 'Visions of Excess' exploitation video project in collaboration with Paul Redfearn; SEK-Kulturverein-Art Studios, Berlin, ongoing collective multimedia art project. She is currently studying for MA Fine Art at the UCL Slade.

Lucy May

Lucy was born in Malaysia in 1982. She graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in 2005. May is currently studying for MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and is based in a studio space in East London.

Stephanie Wehowski

Stephanie completed a Media Arts Foundation at the University of Arts London in 2000 and went on to study Fine Arts at Westminster University. She was born in the trading city of Luebeck, Germany, and she arrived in London in 1996 where she still resides and works.Stephanie works mainly in the medium of large scale sculpture and installation, which have in the past occupied parks and abandoned buildings. The installations themselves often include video or sound and focus on creating an atmosphere to which allows viewers to dive into introspection. Stephanie is interested in touching a world outside the realm of the intellect and words, but which is nonetheless graspable.