Peta Papas
Born in South Africa, Peta Papas studied Art History at the universities of Cape Town, Canterbury and Geneva. She has been working in the field of public art for the past two decades, organizing temporary exhibitions, working as Art curator and Art angel.
Having worked both as artist and in the art business world, Peta's understands art as a vehicle to enrich thought, and present art to the public to encourage people to look hard, at what surrounds them. That artists can easily sell their art work directly to the public is the driving force behind Peta's continuing dedicated good-will to exhibit young artist in alternative spaces other than galleries.
This unique concept falls under a project called “The Interstices” developed by Peta Papas, who organizes and selects the artists and helps them maintaining a direct contact with the public; without any commission. Peta is also serving as an active Board member of several companies dealing in artifacts and real estate.
Professor Dr. Roethlisberger
Professor Dr. Marcel Georges Roethlisberger is a world renowned art historian and art professor. He was born in Zurich, studied law, economics, then history of music and art, archaeology, history and literature at the universities of Berne, Paris, Florence, Pisa and London. He is the recipient of such prestigious awards, as "Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (France) and “Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau” (Kingdom of the Netherlands).
He has taught at, among other institutions, the Yale University, University of Toronto, University of California, University of Delaware, University of Geneva and the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. He was also Research Fellow at the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Swiss National Research Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies and American Philosophical Society and Princeton. Professor Dr. Roethlisberger has published some twenty scholarly books and over a hundred articles in professional journals, exhibition and collection catalogs and reviews.
Alex Wengraf, Cav. M.R.I., FDS, RCS
Born in Vienna, Alex Wengraf is qualified in Dental Surgery at Guy's Hospital, then became a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England. He did medical research including some modestly important & still cited papers.
In 1965 he took over the familial Art Gallery specialising in Old Master Paintings and sculpture. He became MD of P&D Colnaghi in 1975, at the time the most influential commercial art gallery.
Since 1979 he has acted as an independent private Art dealer and consultant and published regularly on the visual arts and related subjects and written regular book reviews.
He was created Cavaliere al Merito of the Italian Republic. Alex Wengraf was also Chairman and Chief Trustee of Blackheath Concert Halls, Head of European Operations Circline Inc. an internet art finding company and is now director of OCTO Ltd (Operational Command Training Organisation) - training senior personnel for major crisis and disaster management.