Simon Read: Wild Goose Chase, Waldringfield
Watercolour, pencil and ink on paper
134 x 76 cm
SIMON READ b. 1949 studied Fine Art at Leeds and Chelsea. He is a multi-media visual artist based in Suffolk and Associate Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University. He became involved in estuary environments after he lost his studio on the Thames in a warehouse fire in 1979, bought a cargo barge in Holland and brought it back to Woodbridge on the River Deben in Suffolk, restoring it for home and studio. Living afloat, he became engrossed by the experience of continual flux that is fundamental to tidal environments and began his decades long exploration interested of estuary and coastal systems. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally and continues to do so but over recent years his practice has become sublimated into the certainty that the current environmental dilemma is as much a cultural as it is a logistical challenge. Over the last ten years he has participated in a succession of interdisciplinary academic research partnerships, of which the most recent have been: Hydrocitizenship 2014-2017, CoastWEB 2017-2020, Deben Soundings 2020-2022.
Watercolour, pencil and ink on paper
134 x 76 cm
SIMON READ b. 1949 studied Fine Art at Leeds and Chelsea. He is a multi-media visual artist based in Suffolk and Associate Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University. He became involved in estuary environments after he lost his studio on the Thames in a warehouse fire in 1979, bought a cargo barge in Holland and brought it back to Woodbridge on the River Deben in Suffolk, restoring it for home and studio. Living afloat, he became engrossed by the experience of continual flux that is fundamental to tidal environments and began his decades long exploration interested of estuary and coastal systems. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally and continues to do so but over recent years his practice has become sublimated into the certainty that the current environmental dilemma is as much a cultural as it is a logistical challenge. Over the last ten years he has participated in a succession of interdisciplinary academic research partnerships, of which the most recent have been: Hydrocitizenship 2014-2017, CoastWEB 2017-2020, Deben Soundings 2020-2022.
Watercolour, pencil and ink on paper
134 x 76 cm
SIMON READ b. 1949 studied Fine Art at Leeds and Chelsea. He is a multi-media visual artist based in Suffolk and Associate Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University. He became involved in estuary environments after he lost his studio on the Thames in a warehouse fire in 1979, bought a cargo barge in Holland and brought it back to Woodbridge on the River Deben in Suffolk, restoring it for home and studio. Living afloat, he became engrossed by the experience of continual flux that is fundamental to tidal environments and began his decades long exploration interested of estuary and coastal systems. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally and continues to do so but over recent years his practice has become sublimated into the certainty that the current environmental dilemma is as much a cultural as it is a logistical challenge. Over the last ten years he has participated in a succession of interdisciplinary academic research partnerships, of which the most recent have been: Hydrocitizenship 2014-2017, CoastWEB 2017-2020, Deben Soundings 2020-2022.