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Simson&Volley


A collaborative partnership established in 2008 with artist Jo Volley, allows the subsuming and exploration of shared interests, which include working with installation, projection and sound, and with the poetics of site, material, measurement.


‘A lovely dual-imagination at work between media, scales and dimensions, intellectually clear and uncluttered. A meeting of good and vibrant minds, not afraid of beauty as fact or idea.’  

Mel Gooding, 2009


The cyanometer, 2021


The cyanometer is a project by the partnership Simson&Volley that explores the defunct scientific but poetic object of the cyanometer


‘Sea Diptych’, 2012
2 circles, each 12.7cmD, Iron Gall Ink, Silver, Gold on Ply

'Portal', 2018, 214cmD, acrylic and metal leaf


‘The Bridge of Sighs’, 2010, gold leaf and photographic projection.
Installed at City Methodologies, Slade Research Centre, London




‘spaces/places/senses/places//senses/spaces’, 2009
Visual Arts Centre, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA

'Objects', plaster, pigment, iron gall ink and gold leaf 'Projection', 7ft gilded circle and photographic projection 'Ellipse', 7ft ellipse, image transfer, pigment and gold leaf 'Gold Ellipse', 4ft gilded ellipse 'Circle', 7 inch circle, image transfer and gold leaf 'Projection', detail
 
'Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen', 2009, gold leaf and photographic projection
   

   
        


    
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