Contributors: Simon Callery

Simon Callery was born in London in 1960. He was educated in London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire and completed his schooling at Campion School, Athens, returning to the UK to work for a film production company in central London in 1978. He studied Fine Art at Berkshire College of Art and graduated from Cardiff College of Art in 1983.

He first showed in London in New Contemporaries at the ICA in 1983. Winning the Gold Medal in painting at the National Eisteddfod in Wales funded a period of travel to New York and the Middle East. He established a studio in Limehouse in east London in the late 1980s and showed work in the Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London in 1988, 1990 and 1992. This was followed by solo exhibitions at Anderson O’ Day Gallery, London and Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London and he was a prizewinner at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, in 1994. Callery exhibited in Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery in 1994 and during a year spent working in Turin he showed at the Castello di Rivara and had a solo exhibition at Galleria Christian Stein. Since 1994 he has shown extensively in the UK and internationally including Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and Brooklyn Museum, New York, About Vision, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Colour White, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Fact & Value, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Khoj, British Council, New Delhi, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Paper Assets at the British Museum and Art Now, Tate Gallery, London in 1999.

An extended period of work in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford resulted in Segsbury Project, which was shown at Dover Castle and the Storey Institute Gallery, Lancaster in 2003. Recent solo shows have been held at Philippe Casini Gallery, Paris, Rachmaninoff’s, London and Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London in 2007. Since 2006 he has been working on the Thames Gateway Project,  a practice based AHRC Fellowship engaging with landscape in change within the regeneration zone in collaboration with Oxford Archaeology.

His works are in the Arts Council Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Comune di Carrara, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, British Museum, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Fonds National D’Art Contemporain. Puteaux, South Glamorgan County Council, Cardiff, Saatchi Collection, London, Tate and private collections in Europe and the U.S.A.

 

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