Simon Martin (artist)

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Simon Martin (born 1965) is a British artist living and working in London. Martin is known for his video works. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Martin was born in Cheshire, England in 1965. [4] [5] He attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, between 1985 and 1989. [6]

Career

In 2005 Martin showed his video work Wednesday Afternoon in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York City, Counter Gallery, London [7] and The Power Plant, Toronto. [8] Reviewing the New York exhibition in the New York Times, Roberta Smith called the work a "a minor masterpiece of poetic discretion". [9] In 2011, his film Louis Ghost Chair, commissioned by the British organization Film and Video Umbrella, premiered at the Holbourne Museum in Bath, UK. [10] [11] [12] His film Lemon 03 Generations (Turn it Around version) was presented as an outdoor projection by the Henry Moore museum in December 2014. [13] [14] In 2015 he presented his film UR Feeling in a solo show at the Camden Arts Centre. [1] [15] [16] Known until this point for his films that used portrayed only static objects, [17] UR Feeling was his first work to use human performers. [18]

He was included in the 2006 Tate Triennial. [19] [20]

In 2008 he received the £45,000 Paul Hamlyn Foundation visual arts award. [21] [22]

Since 2005 he has worked with sound.

Collections

Martin's work is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art [23] and the Tate Museum, London. [19]

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  1. 1 2 "Simon Martin". MAP Magazine. 1 March 2009.
  2. ↑ Colin Ledwith; Polly Staple (11 May 2007). You have not been honest: contemporary film and video from the UK. British Council. ISBN   9780863555824.
  3. ↑ "Here's Looking at You". Frieze (113). 2 March 2008.
  4. ↑ Tate. "Simon Martin born 1965". Tate.
  5. ↑ "British artist Simon Martin's new exhibition "UR Feeling" opens at Camden Arts Centre". artdaily.com.
  6. ↑ "Simon Martin". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  7. ↑ "Simon Martin at Counter Gallery". www.artforum.com.
  8. ↑ "The Power Plant - Simon Martin: Wednesday Afternoon - 2006 - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre". www.thepowerplant.org. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  9. ↑ Smith, Roberta (9 September 2005). "Art in Review; Simon Martin". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.
  10. ↑ Sherwin, Robert Clark & Skye (28 January 2012). "This week's new exhibitions". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.
  11. ↑ "Simon Martin's Louis Ghost Chair installation premieres at The Holburne Museum in Bath - Culture24". www.culture24.org.uk.
  12. ↑ Gosling, Emily (19 December 2011). "Louis Ghost Chair".
  13. ↑ Guido Reuter; Ursula Ströbele (2017). Skulptur und Zeit im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. pp. 169–. ISBN   978-3-412-50453-3.
  14. ↑ Foundation, Henry Moore. "Event Sculpture 4: Simon Martin, 'Lemon 03 Generations (Turn it Around version)' (2014) - Online papers - Research - Henry Moore Foundation". www.henry-moore.org.
  15. ↑ "Simon Martin: UR Feeling". Wall Street International. 10 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "Simon Martin: UR Feeling, Camden Arts Centre - exhibition review". Evening Standard. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  17. ↑ "Kunstverein » Simon Martin".
  18. ↑ "Simon Martin: UR Feeling - Art in London". Time Out London. 22 July 2015.
  19. 1 2 Tate. "'Wednesday Afternoon', Simon Martin, 2005". Tate.
  20. ↑ Tate. "'Carlton', Simon Martin, 2006". Tate. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  21. ↑ "Recipients of Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Martha Hill Achievement Awards". www.artforum.com.
  22. ↑ "Paul Hamlyn Foundation Announces The Recipients Of The 2008 Awards For The Visual Arts And Composers". classicalsource.com.
  23. ↑ "Wednesday Afternoon - DMA Collection Online". www.dma.org.


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