Simon Head walks a line between language, philosophy, and materiality; occupying territories of translation, reinvention, and projection; this often involves personal reflexive memory, concepts that are not necessarily about himself. 

Head overlays systems and structures of the world with his own rules and loose logic; 'enquiries carried out during field trips reveal essential discoveries that assume the responsibility of truth which in turn awakens the realm of invention'.

Whilst treating words as objects, sometimes with shadows and inner surface, Head will translate the synthesis of natural language to an artificial other in order to make a point; he says, 'art has a hard job to do aiming for aesthetic value, whilst it also hankers after the understanding of a deeper meaning', Head's art is like this, there is always something else going on, at the edges, behind the aesthetic.

His career path as engineering draughtsman, typographer, photographer, and film maker, has formed the toolbox and rigour of his practice.

Simon Head is an artist living and working in London; his career path crosses engineering drawing, typography and photography all of which underpin the rigours of his art practice; his projects often involve deeply conceptual thinking which inhabit territories of memorialising, translation and reinvention.

He is a recent post graduate MA Fine Art (Distinction) from The City & Guilds London Art School, where he also received the distinguished ‘Tony Carter’ award.

Over many years Head has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across UK and Europe; his work is held in private collections; his photography has been displayed by The Royal Photographic Society and London Independent Photography.

Simon has given talks and lectures at Chelsea Art College; 'Film as Measure Exhibition & Symposium' and at 'Photofusion'. Recently he was selected in the 'Royal West of England Annual Open', 'Columbia Threadneedle Prize', and 'Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize'; in 2016 he co-curated the exhibition 'That Burning Field' and 2018 exhibited 'The Idea of Absence', after an art residency in St. John on Bethnal Green; recent exhibitions include ''EYE' Discerning Eye', Mall Gallery, London - 2023, and 'The Derwent Drawing Prize' - London - 2024, and 'Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize'- London & touring - 2024.

His work has been published in 'A.N. Magazine’, 'Flip Magazine', and RPS 'Contemporary Group Magazine'; he has an online interview in the March 2019 issue, 'Drawing Thoughts' (Part 4), https://www.interaliamag.org/interviews/simon-head/ - SACU (Society of Anglo Chinese Understanding), 'China Eye' Autumn Newsletter No. 87, 2025 - ‘Simon Head's art reflects on 1982 China’, Referencing his project: China Now (Deng Xiaoping's Children, 1982), 2025.