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Martyn Simpson

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Artist Statement

Lives and works in London
 

Martyn Simpson completed his MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 1994. He has exhibited in shows across Europe including ‘The Reflective Surface’ in Helsinki, Stockholm and Vienna, and was included in Richard Salmon’s abstract painting show, ‘Vivid’, at the Richard Salmon Gallery, London and the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland.

He has also curated exhibitions in London and abroad, notably ‘Perfidy’, an intervention involving twenty international artists at Le Corbusier’s Convent Sainte Marie de La Tourette, Evreux, France, later touring to Kettles Yard, Cambridge. He also curated ‘Carts and Rafts’ at Camberwell College of Arts which drew attention to the re-emergence of craft and the handmade in contemporary art. He is currently Undergraduate Programme Director at Camberwell College of Arts.

Education
1994 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College

1988 BA [Hons] Fine,
Cardiff Institute

Curating Projects
2001 Carts and Rafts: New Artisans in Contemporary Practice, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London Perfidy: Surviving Modernism, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

2000 Perfidy: An Intervention at La Tourette, The Convent of La Tourette, Lyon

1997 Wince, The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London

1995 Kindertotenlieder, Spital Gallery, London

Exhibitions
2002 Vivid, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2001/2 Vivid, Richard Salmon Gallery, London

2001 CArts and rafts, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Perfidy: Surviving Modernism, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

2000 Perfidy: An Intervention at La Tourette, The Convent of La Tourette, Lyon
Incorporate, Art for Offices, London
Where Did You Find Me? Incubator, London and James Hockey Gallery, Farnham

1999 The Reflective Surface, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna and Fargfabriken, Stockholm
Manufacturers, The Paper Bag Factory, London
The Bible of Networking, P-House Gallery, Tokyo

1998 The Reflective Surface, The Cable Factory, Helsinki
The Bible of Networking, Sali Gia, London
The Crow’s Boredom, The Monastery of La Tourette, Lyon
Foursome, 97-99 Sclater Street, London

1997 Wince, The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London
Baby Shoes, Victoria, collaborative arts newspaper

1996 Plastic Domestic, The Tannery, London
No Place Like Home, National Palace of Queluz, Lisbon

1995 Prema Centre, Gloucestershire.
Kindertotenlieder, Spital Gallery, London
Sur Ciel Sur, Collaboration with Marta Wengorovius, Lisbon

1994 Lisboa ’94, Convento Arrabida, Lisbon