Current
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RWA 127 Annual Open Exhibition
6 Sep - 28 Dec 2025 Always worth a visit, the RWA Annual Open Exhibition is one of the UK’s most prestigious open-submission exhibitions, now in its 172nd year. This year I am exhibiting Study for Reality Event, a pair of cast concrete shadows, sunrise and sunset. Exhibited in the Monochrome room, a sensitively curated room... Read more -
After Nature
Curated by Ben Tufnell 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2025 This exhibition brings together leading and emerging artist and offers a timely exploration of the ways in which artists are looking at and thinking about nature in the twenty-firtst centry, featuring works spanning a range of media, including sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting and photography. I'm truley delighted to be exhibiting... Read more
Forthcoming
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Frieze Sculpture 2025
'In The Shadows' 17 Sep - 2 Nov 2025 I am honoured to be exhibiting in Frieze Sculpture 2025. The 13th iteration of this much-celebrated annual public art event features 14 leading international artists, whose sculptures are positioned throughout the historic English Gardens. Curated by Fatos Ustek , the theme for Frieze Sculpture 2025 is 'In The Shadows', broadly... Read more -
FRIEZE Performance Drawing
21 - 28 Sep 2025 On Sunday 21 September, and Sunday 28th September, I will be making a durational-day-drawing in The English Gardens between sunrise and sunset. Sited right next to my shadow sculpture Bearing Witness To Things Unseen , I will be tracing the shadows of a geological object found in Regent's Park. Come... Read more
Past
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Postcards from Seydisfjordur
@HARDPAINTING in collaboration with Sluice Expo 23 - 25 May 2025 In the increasingly digital world, the analogue aspect of amending and sending a postcard bears weight. This exhibtion was inspired by Dieter Roth who played an important role in the cullturalmlife of Seydisfjordur and was a resident in the small town where he exchanged altered postcards with other international artists.... Read more -
See Here Now
Art in a time of urgency 4 Apr - 8 Jun 2025 Members of the PLACE Collective come together for a group exhibtion in Grizedale Forest gallery. 'How are artists responding to local and global climate and nature crises? What does their work bring into focus, which absences does it highlight, whose voices are brought in? These and other questions are addressed... Read more -
Every Step Of The Way
4 Apr - 16 Jul 2025 The South Downs Way is a 100-mile-long distance walk over the spectacular and ancient South Downs, from Winchester to Eastbourne. This exhibition represents another chapter in the ongoing engagements with the landscape as 33 contemporary artists articulate the experience of walking the Way through the lens of their creative practices.... Read more -
IN TIME
20 Mar - 1 Jul 2025 A beautifully currated exhibtion in collaboration with Close . All four artists' work explore time in a different way, and are tied together by minimal concerns. There's something of the zen aesthetic with the Travertine walls which sets the work off well. I'm showing four framed prints of my durational... Read more -
Paper Works
RWA Biennial Open 25 Jan - 27 Apr 2025 I'm delighted to be exhibiting two durational-day-drawings in the exhibition Paper Works, the RWA’s Biennial exhibition. These process based drawings I am showing for the first time, continue my exploration of landscape, time and transience. The works are made in, of and about the landscape; the result of a particular... Read more -
AT The Bus
Charity exhibition at Sotheby's 27 Apr - 7 May 2024 I am delighted to be supporting AT The Bus again, with the donation of my drawing 06.00 Birchwood 18.30 for the upcoming exhibition at Sotheby's. AT The Bus is a much needed charity which helps very disadvantaged children gain confidence and social skills, ebabling them to study at school and... Read more -
A Skin Made Porous
Anima Mundi, St Ives 10 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 A multi-media group exhibition exploring interior and exterior worlds: physical and metaphysical transformations of the body, inhabited and imagined, are explored by the seventeen exhibited artists. Testing the boundaries of what it is to be human by investigating the porous relationship we share with the non-human world of rock, my... Read more -
Landscapes of Progress?
NEW WORK AT HESTERCOMBE GALLERY 11 Nov 2023 - 3 Mar 2024 What is progress? How do we relate to landscape? This group exhibition brings together six artists: Rebecca Chesney, Simon Hitchens, Marie-Louise Jones, Hugo Lami, Madinah Farhannah Thompson and Mirte van Duppen; all of whom make work inspired by these questions. Whether attempting to understand and present individual views of the... Read more -
in Conversation event with Ben Tuffnell
29 Sep 2023 To coincide with my exhibition Parallels at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, I will be In Conversation with Ben Tuffnell, curator, writer and Director of Parafin London. We will be exploring the journey, both physical and conceptual, which led to the work exhibited in the current show. I expect we... Read more -
Parallels
Somerset Rural Life Museum 16 Sep - 2 Dec 2023 An exhibition of drawings and sculpture exploring time and transience Read more -
RWA 170 OPEN
Bristol 9 Sep 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 Annual Open exhibition Read more -
Wander_Land
Tremenheere Sculpture gallery, Penzance 1 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 Group exhibition by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors Read more -
RA Summer Exhibition
London 13 Jun - 20 Aug 2023 I am delighted to say that I will have this sculpture shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023. Made from cast iron it captures the briefest of moments as the sun's at its zenith on a particular day, in a particular place, at a particular time. This is the... Read more -
Lines of Empathy
CLOSE Ltd, Somerset 3 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 Please join me, and sixteen other artists on Saturday 3rd June 2 - 5pm for the opening reception of Lines of Empathy , an exhibition of hand drawn works on paper. This exhibition has its genesis during the Covid lockdowns, when the artist and curator Giulia Ricci decided to explore... Read more -
Congregation
The Chapel, Tuckingmill, Tisbury 24 - 26 Mar 2023 Congregation brings together the work of 8 members of the Royal Society of Sculptors – Nicola Anthony , Barbara Bayer , Laura Ford , Simon Hitchens , Rebecca Newnham , Mark Richards , Amy Stephens , and Almuth Tebbenhoff . The exhibition is curated by Jacquiline Creswell . In addition,... Read more -
Lines of Empathy
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London 2 - 25 Feb 2023 Curated by Giulia Ricci, this group exhibition of 17 artists who draw on paper, is accompanied by an in-depth book of research by the same name. The exhibition and book explores and interrogates what it means to draw: cognitively, physically, perceptually, intellectually and emotionally. It's a rich and unusually in-depth... Read more -
The Hitchens Family: A Shared Love of Landscape
Southampton City Art Gallery 12 Nov 2022 - 4 Mar 2023 It's such a pleasure to be showing alongside my father John, grandfather Ivon, and great grandfather Alfred, in the exhibition The Hitchens Family: A Shared Love Of Landscape. Rarely do I get the chance to show alongside them and further understand our common threads: the theme of Landscape is obvious,... Read more -
Beyond Body
Solo show at Black Swan Arts, Frome 30 Apr - 26 May 2022 PR Statement ‘I am fascinated by the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, what passes and what outlasts, as a means of exploring our relationship with impermanence.’ Simon Hitchens This exhibition sets out to test the boundaries of what it is to be human by investigating the porous relationship... Read more
