Welcome and thank you for visiting my site. I am an artist living and working in London.
Much of my current work is concerned with paintings and drawings of landscapes and cityscapes. These works are derived from photographs. Often a single photograph generates a series of Expressionist-styled works of the same scene. These works verge upon abstraction. Successive works in the series develop common compositional structures through repetition of gestures with brushes, pencils and other implements. The often spontaneous and intuitive engagement with materials, tools, surfaces and processes stands in contrast to the momentary capture of the photograph. These series are open-ended and no particular work from a series is the definitive example. Through repetition works in a series no longer represent the landscape or cityscape but instead signify it.
I also make a related series of abstract works that evoke landscapes through the suggestion of a horizon line or, by tipping the plane through 90 degrees, the view down upon a landscape in aerial and satellite photography. These works use many of the same techniques, processes and materials for creating images as employed in my landscapes and cityscapes. Sometimes these abstract works evolve out of failed landscapes and cityscapes.
In recent years I have also made many geometric abstract collages that explore colour and tonal relationships using different kinds of found and painted papers.
I have a blog at simonneville.blogspot.com which combines my artwork and photography from my Flickr account.
I can be contacted at simon @ simonneville dot co dot uk
Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | Red Gate Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Putney Arts Theatre, London |
| 2007 | In Context: Collage + Abstraction Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | 42 Three Colts Gallery, London |
| 2006 | The New Collage Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | Collage: Signs and Surfaces Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York |
Reviews and Miscellany
| 2006 | Whole and Flowing used as cover art for The Vertical Hour by David Hare; jacket design by Charlotte Strick |
| 2006 | Gallery Going Maureen Mullarkey: The New York Sun, 29 June 2006 |
Cult of the Harvester Group Exhibitions
I run a joint project with Sarah Sparkes as Cult of the Harvester. A statement supporting our work for Supermarket 2010 in Stockholm can be read here.
| 2010 | JISM at [the] Evidence Supermarket 2010, Stockholm |
| 2009 | Deserters Nunhead Arts Week, London |
| 2009 | Chutney Preserves 3: The Voice of Chutney Camberwell Arts Festival, London |
Inventory Exhibitions
I was a member of Inventory from 1994-2000.
| 1999/2000 | Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky The Approach, London |
| 1999 | Accumulate-Replicate Modern Institute, Glasgow |
| 1997 | Faces Canary Wharf, London |
| 1996 | British Council Gallery, Prague |
| 1996 | Workfortheeyetodo, London |
| 1995 | Museum of Mankind, London |
| 1995 | School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
Inventory Group Exhibitions
| 2003/2004 | Word/Image Westport Arts Center, Connecticut, USA |
| 1999 | Crash ICA, London |
| 1999 | Limit Less Galerie Krinziner, Vienna |
| 1999 | Hiroshima Art Document Hiroshima, Japan |
| 1998 | Newspapers, Tabloids, Journals... Info Centre, London |
| 1998 | A to Z The Approach, London |
| 1997 | Sampling the Visible Flaxman Gallery, London |
| 1997 | Imprint 93 and Other Related Ephemera Norwich Art Gallery, UK |
| 1997 | Collected Photographers Gallery, London |
| 1996 | Collected Works University of Derby, UK |
| 1996 | Live/Life Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
Selected Inventory Reviews
| 2000 | Inventory Time Out London, 12-19 Jan 2000 |
| 1999 | Inventory in der Approach Regina Von Planta: Kunst Bulletin (Zurich), no. 12, Dec 1999 |
| 1998 | Let Us Say, The Rules Of The Game Neil Cummings: Mayazyu Sziuki (Warsaw) |
| 1998 | The Thing and I Giles Foden: The Guardian, Thursday 28 May 1998 |
| 1997 | Travel Logs Steven Bury: Art Monthly, no. 212, Dec 1997/Jan 1998 |
| 1996 | Inventory Alastair Bonnett: Transgressions, no. 2/3, 1996 |
| 1996 | Serious Fun Radek Vana: Detail Magazine (Prague), no. 6/1, Feb 1996 |
| 1996 | Fanzine of the Month Kodwo Eshun: iD Magazine, no. 149, Feb 1996 |
Education
| 1986-1989 | BA (Hons.) Fine Arts Degree Middlesex Polytechnic |
| 1985-1986 | Diploma in Foundation Studies Kingston Polytechnic |
