Parallels: Somerset Rural Life Museum

This solo exhibition comprises  process-based drawings made in, of and about the landscape; the result of a particular set of conditions, in a particular place, over a particular span of time. They record celestial time, geological time and human time as well as the weather patterns unique to that day and site: a meditation on time and space. Directly indexed to each drawing and quite literally making the fourth dimension, three-dimensional, are cast iron sculptures recording the midday shadow from each of the twelve geological time periods.

In the beautiful Abbey Barn I will be showing a large concrete shadow sculpture Bearing Witness to Things Unseen, alongside a specially commissioned film and my drawing table set up with stone and drawing, as if I have briefly left it.

The exhibition is accompanied by a book under the same title, published to coincide with the exhibition which is a collaboration between my gallery CLOSE Ltd, the South West Heritage Trust and Somerset Rural Life Museum.

For further detailed informaton about the exhibtion please visit the museum website

To view pdf of exhibition catalaogue or purchase, click here.

View exhibition film HERE

On 29th September there was a public In-Conversation event between Simon and Ben Tufnell, director of Parafin gallery, curator and author on books such as In Land. To view the event recording please click HERE, or go to the Video Page.

Open: 10 am - 5 pm

Tues - Sun until 31 Oct

Tues - Sat from 1 Nov

£8.50 entrance, unlimited with ticket for a year

Somerset Rural Life Museum
Chilkwell Street
Glastonbury
Somerset
BA6 8DB

01458 831197