statement
I walk a line between language, philosophy, and materiality; inhabiting territories of memory, translation, and reinvention; my propositions overlay systems and structures of the world; my ideas are continuously researched on field trips and formed in the studio.
Concepts always lie behind a work of art; the art has to work hard aesthetically to assume an identity of its own before it can share why it was made; despite feeling uncomfortable with labels I admit to ‘conceptual artist’.
My proposals ‘Talking with Wittgenstein' , ‘Talking With Piero’, or ‘Verging On Zero' are ‘umbrella projects’ in that their principals, procedures, and practices sit under the inspiration of another whilst holding their own aesthetic identity.
biography
My name is Simon Head, I am a visual artist working in text based, photographic, drawing, and installation art; I am based in London.
As a mature student and a recent post graduate MA Fine Art (Distinction), 2022, from ‘The City & Guilds London Art School’, I also received the distinguished ‘Tony Carter’ award.
I have exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions across UK and Europe. My work has sold and is held in private collections, my photographs have been displayed on numerous occasions in the ‘Royal Photographic Society's’ International Print Exhibition.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 - ‘Revolver’, A+D Gallery - London
2006 - 'Mark' symposium - Dartington Hall, Devon
2007 - 19th, LIP Exhibition, London
2007 - Black & White, Gallery 12, London
2009 - 'IMPROMPTU' Schwartz Gallery, London
2011 - The Royal Photographic Society Members Print Exhibition
2011 - The Royal Photographic Society 154th Int. Print Exhibition
2012 - The Royal Photographic Society 155th Int. Print Exhibition
2012 - 'MEMORIAL::LAIROMEM' - Crossing Lines - Summer Show
2012 - The London Villages Project Exhibition - Goldsmiths, London
2012 - 'SNAPSHOTS' - Brick Lane Gallery/The Annexe, London - Photo Month, 25 October - 4 November
2013 - ‘Film as Measure’ - Exhibition and Symposium - Chelsea College of Art and Design, February 2013
2016 - 'That Burning Field' - half-life project space, London
2017 - 'Interim Spaces' - RK Burt Gallery
2017 - The Royal West of England Academy - 165 Annual Open Exhibition
2018 - ‘The Columbia Threadneedle Prize’ - The Mall Gallery, London
2018 - ‘Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize’ - "BUFFALO YOGA 01.01"
2018 - Curated/Exhibited 'The Idea of Absence', 2018, the culmination of a ‘Lumen’ art residency at St. John on Bethnal Green.
2019 - ‘ANTHOLOGY’ - Menier Gallery - London
2019 - ‘FROM THE BOOK TO THE BOOK’ - OffShoot Gallery - London
2022 - City & Guilds London Art School, MAFA, Final exhibition
2023 - ‘ING Discerning EYE’, Mall Gallery - London
2024 - ’The Derwent Drawing Prize’ - OXO Tower Gallery, London.
2024 - ‘Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize’ - Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and touring.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1994 - ‘Electricity: The restructuring of an Industry’, Liberal Club, London
1997 - 'Terminal Language' @ The Poetry Society, London
2004 - 'd e n i a l' - London Centre of Psychotherapy
2004 - 'a u t o e x p o s u r e' - The Engineer, London
2005 - 'bridge' - Kingsgate Gallery, London
2008 - 'tiempo-imagen-estructura' - O+O gallery, Valencia. Spain
2015 - 'slipped slate' - half-life project space, London
Publications
2008 - LIP - 20th Annual Exhibition Catalogue; 'Exposicion fotografica de Simon Head' - Oscar Garcia Garcia
2009 - a.n. magazine - May issue - Review of 'IMPROMPTU' at Schwartz Gallery - Heather Phillipson
2009 - LIP - 21st Annual Exhibition Catalogue
2010 - 'testimonio' the book
2010 - 'OUR COMMON GROUND' the Book
2010 - LIP - 22nd Annual Exhibition Catalogue
2010 - FLIP magazine - Issue 17 - article on the 'testimonio' project
2011 - Royal Photographic Society, Contemporary Group Journal - Issue 42 - article on 'gard'ning' project
2012 - 'Thames Reflex / Waterloo Bridge' for The London Villages Project
2019 - online interview published in ‘Interalia Magazine’, March 2019 issue, 'Drawing Thoughts' (Part 4), https://www.interaliamag.org/interviews/simon-head/
2022 - ‘Ten Unfolded Thoughts’ and ‘The Idea of Silence’.
2024 - ‘Walking Backwards and Spitting in the Face of Death’; a tribute to John Levett and a collaborative venture; Michael Rodgers, Nick Scammell, Simon Head.