Aled Simons studied, lives and works in Swansea, South Wales. The core of Simons’ practice explores pseudo-science, sham-ritual, anecdote, class and humour; found objects, crude sculpture, video, performance and writing. He often employs looping or repetition – the ubiquitous gif or meme format. Early 1990s television and its specific place at the junction of a shift between analogue broadcast and digital on-demand viewing. Inverted values – re-interpreting or misunderstanding the idea of an heirloom. Operating in the space between the tension release of a laugh and the awkwardness of things that go on too long or fall flat and fail.