Simon Stone was born in 1952, Lady Grey, Cape Province, RSA. In 1976, he completed his Advanced Diploma in Fine Art, at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT (with Distinction). 1997 Ampersand Foundation, New York...
The work of some artists lends itself to the most fluid of critical conversations. It's almost as though every paint stroke and compositional angle has been so artfully preconceived, every material component so intricately choreographed and self-consciously conceptualised in terms of its inter-textuality and multiple references that to "not get it" is to admit to the most contemptible form of visual illiteracy and cultural philistinism. Simon Stone's work is not one of these. Coherent exegesis is not his strong suit and efforts at critical responses sometimes seem tantamount to imposing a linguistic grid on a dialect that defies verbiage. His is not an art that speaks for itself. It speaks to itself in codes that are as inchoate as they are arcane.
