Paddy Simkins

Simkins is a British artist living and working in Paris and London.
He works in painting, collage and interactive performance.
Throughout his work he rearranges images to create fictional narratives.
By interweaving stories and fabricating new narratives, his work dissects, reenacts and comments on society’s attitudes towards fact and fiction.
Meanwhile, his performances interrogate how these attitudes affect human interaction.

THE HEADS

There are numerous ways today, through both old media and new, that society builds it's own interpretations of a person and manages to pigeon-hole them. The Collaged Heads explore the imaginary statuses that society projects onto others. 
Often large in size but created from cut, torn and frayed canvas, the Heads are able to accentuate both the subject’s godliness and fragility at the same time. 
The trial of athlete Oscar Pistorius, whom the artist met and painted in 2011, is an eery reminder of how an individual can go from hero to zero in a matter of days, as well as the role that society plays in advancing both sides of the coin.
With the representation feeling easily disposable, Patrick hands the onus over to the public in his interactive performance Three Heads. The artist asks t...

2008 - 1st Class Hons degree in BA Fine Art & Illustration, Coventry University

2005 - Foundation Studies Diploma in Fine Art Painting, Wimbledon School of Art

Solo Exhibitions:

2016
- “Moments”, BBK Oldenburg Gallery, Germany
2012
- Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, Sportsworld Hospitality Suite
2010
- Four Communications, Leicester Square, London
- 9 Langton Street Gallery, Chelsea, London
2009
- Drella Gallery, Godalming, Surrey


Selected Group Exhibitions:
2018
- London Contemporary Art prize - Store Street Gallery
- Future.e.s Festival, Paris
- Cycles Croisés,Le 6b, Saint-Denis, France

2017
- ING Discerning Eye 2017, Mall Galleries, London - (invited artist)
- Eclosion, Hatsh, Espace Commines, Paris

2016
- London Art Fair 2016, with C&C Gallery
- UK Young Artists Festival, Derby, UK
- "Visions in the Nunnery”, The Nunnery Gallery, London
- Hatsh at Galerie Joseph, Paris
- "La Laideur", Galerie 60 Adada, Paris

2015
- A/S/L, C&C Gallery, London
- Summer Art Prize, Lacey Contemporary, London
- "Rainbow Merchant", Schwartz Gallery, London
- "Surface Tension", The Architects Gallery, Teddington
- Featured in Saatchi Online's "Spotlight on London" collection
- Featured in Saatchi Online's "Street Art" collection

2014
- Repre Art Collective, Tugboat Tea Company, Brooklyn, New York
- Art in Transit, BBK Oldenburg ...