Simon callery biography
- Life and work .
- Simon Callery is a London based painter who has shown extensively in the UK and internationally since the mid 1990's.
- Painter, photographer and sculptor, born and lived in London, who studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design, 1979–80, and South Glamorgan Institute of.
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Simon Callery (b.1960)
Paintings in Hospitals
Painter, photographer and sculptor, born and lived in London, who studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design, 1979–80, and South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, 1980–3. He won Arts Council Young Artists Awards in 1983 and 1986, gained a Gold Medal at Welsh National Eisteddfod, 1986, and won a prize at John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1993–4. Solo exhibitions included Anderson O’Day, 1993, Christian Stein, Turin, 1995, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, 1996, and Art Now 19, Tate Gallery, 1999, in which a group of large works developed the artist’s awareness of luminosity, line, rhythm and scale. As part of his interest in other disciplines, in 1997 Callery worked alongside archaeologists from The Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, during excavation of an Iron Age hill fort, which resulted in his photographic survey The Segsbury Project.
An associated exhibition was shown at The Officers’ Mess, Dover Castle, in 2003. Saatchi
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British artist Simon Callery makes physical paintings. His works have an emphasis on materiality. Callery became a new addition to the artists represented in our gallery, with his first solo exhibition in Spain which we presented in 2021.
His paintings are often made in direct contact with the hard surfaces of the urban environment or on location in the landscape. He has worked in collaboration with field archaeologists from Oxford University’s School of Archaeology for many years and is now taking painting processes developed on excavation sites in the landscape to apply them to works made in the city, initially in London and more recently in Rome. For these works, the canvasses are framed, cut, punctured, soaked in highly saturated coloured distemper and stitched together in a way that shows all kinds of internal voids and spaces. The paintings on show in his 2021 exhibition originated from working on two Iron Age excavation sites: Moel y Gaer, Bodfari in North Wales and Nesscliffe Hill in Shropshire.
He has said that he works “to give painting back its body, and as a result
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Simon Callery, born London, 1960. Educated; Campion School, Athens, Berkshire College of Art and Design, graduated Cardiff College of Art, 1983. Recent paintings emphasis physicality and are made in direct contact with the hard surfaces of the urban environment or on location in the landscape. Landscape based work has been informed by long-term collaboration with School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Canvasses are marked, cut and punctured, soaked in highly saturated distemper and stitched together to form interior voids and spaces. He has shown extensively in the UK and internationally since the 1990’s including; Young British Artists III. Saatchi Gallery, London. 1994. Sensation. Royal Academy of Arts, London, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin & Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1997. ArtNow 19. Tate Britain, 1999. Paper Assets. British Museum, 2001. Segsbury Project. Dover Castle, 2003. Recent solo shows include; Open Body. Annex14. Zurich. 2017. Pit & Void Sequence. Geukens & de Vil. Knokke. Belgium. 2017. Unosunove, Rome, 2019. He was an Abbey Fellow in Painting at the Br
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