Simon M Smith

Born in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1957
Studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic and the University of Reading

A simple statement about my work:
I am interested in making art which discovers or expresses its own meaning, but this meaning is something I then have to respond to.
I don’t make the work for its own sake: I want it to teach me how to live.

Things that other people have said about my work:
“really beautiful work… wonderful honesty and vulnerability, which comes from a genuine creative process”
Emma Helbrough, author and editor

stunning and generous work… I want it everywhere”
Joanna King, curator

Simon M Smith is, in my view, one of the very best practitioners of his generation”
John Gilboy, Orange Street Gallery


"...a Picasso of his time..."
Adriana de Barros

Exhibitions:
Exhibition of Contemporary British, Irish & Italian Art, Barbara Stanley Gallery, 27 Connaught Street, London W2 2AY
8 December 2011 - 21 January 2012
ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 10 - 20 November 2011
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 20 - 23 October 2011 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
4th annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, 27 - 28 Cork Street, London 4 - 12 August 2011
Summer Show, School House Gallery, Wighton 25 June - 2 September 2011
Royal Academy Summer Show, London 7 June - 15 August 2011
Edinburgh art fair, Corn Exchange, Edinburgh 18 - 21 November 2010 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery}
ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 11 - 21 November 2010
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 20 - 24 October 2010 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 7 - 21 August 2010
summer show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 25 May – 28 August 2010
3rd annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, 27 - 28 Cork Street, London 5 - 13 August 2010
FRINGEMK 2010, 15 July - 1 September 2010 finalist
Cambridge Art Fair, Chilford Hall, Cambridgeshire, 25 - 27 June 2010
spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 6 March - 29 May 2010
spring show, Burnham Grapevine Gallery, Burnham Market, Norfolk 6 February – 17 April 2010
Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium 4 - 8 February 2010 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
Debt Doctors Foundation/Sotheby's Fashion, Arts and Culture Auction, Great Hall of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London 4 December 2009
ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 12 - 22 November 2009
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 22 - 25 October 2009 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
autumn show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 2 September – 28 November 2009
ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 1 - 15 August 2009
summer show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 2 June – 29 August 2009
2nd annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London 6 - 15 August 2009
spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 3 March - 30 May 2009
mixed exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture, The Art Stable, Child Okeford, Dorset 14 March - 4 April 2009
christmas show, Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely 19 November -December 20 2008
christmas exhibitions, Grapevine Contemporary Arts, Norwich and Burnham Market 30 November - 24 December 2008
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 23 - 26 October 2008 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 13 - 23 November 2008
ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 31 July – 15 August 2008
1st annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London 31 July – 9 August 2008
summer exhibition, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset 12 July - 6 September 2008
summer exhibition 08: New work by gallery artists, Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale July - August 2008
suffolk showcase, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, 14 June - 19 July 2008
royal society of Birmingham artists, RSBA Gallery, Birmingham, 29 May – 5 July 2008
simon m smith & alan flood, two-man show, Orange Street Gallery, Uppingham, 19 April – 17 May 2008
spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 19 February - 24 May 2008
new year, new work, Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
7 February - 6 March 2008
black is back, Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames, Berkshire
12 December 2007 - 25 February 2008
christmas show, Horace Blue, Norwich 1 - 24 December 2007
winter show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 30 October 2007 - 26 January 2008
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 18 - 21 October 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
grand designs live, stand E3, NEC Birmingham 5 - 7 October 2007
suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 29 June – 28 July 2007
works on paper Digby Gallery, Mercury Theatre Colchester 19 June – 19 July 2007 solo show
cambridgeshire art fair Chilford Hall, Linton 8 – 10 June 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
summer show Sheridan Russell Gallery, 16 Crawford Street, London, W1H 1BS 29 May – 29 September 2007
affordable art fair Bristol, 17 – 20 May 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
east – west artists culture club Group exhibition, Light Gallery, London 5 – 10 December 2006
liberte d’expression:
Barclays Global Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London 2 – 8 November 2006
Candid Arts Trust, Islington 9 – 12 November 2006
suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 8 July – 5 August 2006
FAB ART 05 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 25 Nov - 2 December 2005
'the scent of magnolia’ The Wall Gallery Ely 30 October – 24 November 2005 solo show
a fine line Euroart Gallery, Tottenham, London 9 - 20 November 2004
on the wall Olympia Grand Hall, London 29 September - 3 October 2004
'approaching silence' The Wall Gallery Ely Cambridgeshire 1 - 27 February 2004 solo show
FAB ART 03 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 28 Nov - 5 December 2003 silver prize winner
Eastern Open 2003 King's Lynn March - May 2003
Eastern Open 2002 King's Lynn March - May 2002
Visual Haiku Peterborough Art House 8 June - 7 July 2001
Eastern Open 2001 King's Lynn March - May 2001
Kettle's Yard Open Cambridge 1 - 30 July 2000
Eastern Open 2000 King's Lynn March - May 2000
Cheltenham Open Drawing 1999:
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels
Karl Hofer Gallery, Berlin
European Illustration Collection, Humberside University
Eastern Open 1999 King's Lynn March - May 1999
Drawings for All '96:
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Stamford Arts Centre
Chelmsford Art Gallery
King of Hearts, Norwich
De Montfort University, Lincoln