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2022 - London Art Fair, Group Show, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer
2021 - Royal Society of Sculptors, Summer Show 28.06.21 - 19.09.21 - View Show
2021 - Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, 15.05.21 - 24.10.21 - view show
2021 - SHARED SPACE, Lockbund Gallery, 06.02.21 - 31.07.21 - view show
2020 - Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, 10.07.20 - 24.10.20 - view show
2019 - OBJECTS, Orexart, Auckland NZ - view show // View on ArtsDiary.co.nz
2019 - METOUSIOSIS, Fold Gallery, London UK - view show
2018 - ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London UK - view show
2018 - OF HIS BONES, Studio 10, Port Nelson, NZ - view show
2017 - DRIFT, group show, JGM Gallery London - view show
2017 - Shift, Solo sculpture show, Orexart, Auckland New Zealand - view show
2016 - Group Show, Art Bastion Gallery, Context Art, Miami USA
2016 - Orexart, sculpture, Auckland New Zealand - view show
2016 - Flatland, sculpture, Fold Gallery, London UK - view show
2015 - Group show, sculpture, Botanicae - Purston Manor, Oxfordshire UK
12/14 - Group show, sculpture and painting, Lockbund Sculpture Gallery, Oxfordshire UK
2011 - Installation of public commission, Banbury UK
2010 - Messums Fine Art, Marlow UK
2010 - Square One Art Gallery, Arundel UK
11/92 - Work on permanent show with Lockbund Sculpture Gallery, Oxforshire UK
1992 - Group show, sculpture at Roche Court, Wiltshire UK
1991 - Group show, paintings and sculpture, Henderson Carter Fine Arts, London UK
1990 - Royal Achedemy Summer Exhibition, sculpture, London UK
1988 - Two man show, paintings and sculpture, Draycott Gallery, London UK
1988 - Paintings shown with Venessa Devereaux, Portobello London UK
1987 - Contemporary Art 1987, Business Design Center, London UK
1987 - Royal Achedemy Summer Exhibition, sculpture, London UK
1986 - Two man show, paintings and sculpture, Kintbury UK
1986 - Five Bronzes, Beaucamp Palace, London UK
1982 - Ginko Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1981 - Installation, Centre Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1980 - Exhibition of sculpture, Center Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1979 - Group show, sculpture, Print Gallery, Wellington NZ
1979 - New Canterbury Contemporaries, Robert McDougal Gallery, Canterbury NZ
1978 - One man exhibition of sculpture, A1 Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1978 - A4 Show, Sculpture, Wellington NZ
1978 - Installation 'Light and Movement' Studio Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1977 - Kinetic Installations series, Nelson NZ
1974 - One man exhibition of painting, Nelson Elco Gallery, Nelson NZ
Simon was born in Auckland in 1955 but spent his early childhood growing up amidst what he describes as the ‘paradise of the Kaikoura coastline’ where his father worked as the editor of the Kaikoura Times. After the family moved to Nelson Simon completed a secondary education at Nelson College which at the time featured a strong visual arts department headed by Irvine Major an influential Nelson landscape painter. It was while living in Nelson that Simon developed an early interest in casting techniques experimenting with a collection of lead head nails ruthlessly scavenged from the city’s weathered roofs.
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Simon attended the Canterbury School of Fine Arts graduating in 1978 under the tutelage of Tom Taylor who ran the sculpture department with Martin Mendelsburg, a young American sculptor. The paintings of Don Peebles who also taught at the school remain an ongoing influence on Simon’s work.
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After graduating Simon worked at the Court Theatre in Christchurch as a scenic artist and set designer before traveling to England in 1984 and establishing a bronze casting facility in London called Red Bronze Studio. This was reestablished in Oxfordshire in 1993 as Lockbund Sculpture Foundry and Lockbund Gallery.
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As well as developing Lockbund Simon has maintained his own sculpture practise and exhibited widely. His sculpture, including commissioned works, is held in private and public collections throughout Europe. He has also maintained strong links with New Zealand and over recent summers has worked at a studio in Nelson to produce several exhibitions the most recent being of his bones held as a pop up event at the studio.
Simon is represented by Orexart in Auckland, Church St Fine Arts in Nelson and Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer and Fold Gallery in London.
