Biography

Sandy and Peter (b.1960 in Birkenhead, UK and 1958 in Bradford, UK) have been creative collaborators for over 40 years: first meeting at Harrogate College of Art in 1981, and later both studying at Ravensbourne College of Art in London, UK (1982-85), on the sculpture and painting/printmaking (Fine Art) degree courses respectively.

They moved to Holland in 1988 to work for pioneering software development companies in the early days of the computer graphics industry, providing production technology to major Academy Award winning film special effects studios like US based Digital Domain and Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).

They married in Amsterdam in 1992 and relocated to Hong Kong later that year to further develop their creative practice and be close to a network of private collectors in Asia Pacific - particularly from the digital technology, film, entertainment and banking industries - that had begun to take an early interest in their lens-based landscape informed constructed digital images.

Between 1993 and 2007 they established a number of digital media oriented ventures in the APAC region, including Computer Images China magazine in Hong Kong and Beijing, the first of its type in Chinese, focused on innovations in VR, AR, computer graphics, non-linear editing, digital compositing and similar. It was during this period they began experimenting with using motion capture and 3D software tools in combination with photographic devices as a means to visually document and record - through abstracted data traces - the activity and process of drawing within technologically defined and limited physical spaces.

In 2007 they moved from Hong Kong to New Delhi, India with their son and daughter, continuing to develop their work across the country using lens-based devices to capture experiences within natural and built landscapes, moving to the UK in 2010. After short periods with film VFX production companies in Los Angeles, Florida, Abu Dhabi and Beijing, they returned to India in 2015 until 2017, basing themselves in the Juhu area of Mumbai and working on a number of private and commissioned creative projects that involved travelling around the city in auto rickshaws and visually documenting their journeys. It was while they were in India that Sandy and Peter first began using highly saturated colours within their reimagined and reconstructed time-based images, as a mechanism to further visually remove them from their origins and be seen anew.

Although the creative work of Sandy and Peter has been quietly acquired by private collectors for over 35 years - particularly in Asia Pacific countries like China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and India - they only started to consider the possibility of showing to a wider public audience as a consequence of Covid lockdowns internationally and the resulting impact and effect on global travel. During this period they began to focus more on their practice while based in the UK, which has resulted in the time-based ‘Field Views’ series they have been developing since 2020, as part of their on-going ‘Landscapes in Motion’ project.

Sandy and Peter are permanent residents of Hong Kong, and are currently based between there and Vietnam.