Patrick Simkins

Patrick Simkins

Paris (and London), France

About Patrick Simkins

Simkins is a British artist living and working in Paris. 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 Paintings --- Patrick’s paintings can best be described as Chinese whispers. Simkins records onto canvas the images that are posted onto his social network feeds. Through the process of painting, day by day in the studio he allows these original images and their original narratives to be mistranslated and reinterpreted. The process is not dissimilar to the way we perceive and interpret the people and events that surround us today: Online profiles are self-curated and romanticised, media stories are exaggerated and commercial hyperbole exists everywhere. Our own quick-glance attitude to images means that our interpretations of each other and our stories are created from knowing little of the context in which they were originally set. Patrick’s free use of paint, exemplified by the rapid marks are significant. Mark-making exists as a metaphor for the artist. Each time a mark is made, a new judgement has been cast, we have reinterpreted the original story once more. In the interactive performance Dance and Draw, Patrick shares his process with the public and asks the audience to make their own marks. Just as before, each mark the audience makes becomes a reinterpretation of an original event. Slowly but surely, with a few surprises included, Patrick and the audience layer line upon line to create a new narrative. For a preview of the performance. See http://www.psimkinsart.co.uk/paris-installation.php ........................................................ HEADS - to see this side of Patrick's practice, head to https://www.saatchiart.com/patricks

Education:

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

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

Events:

I put on performances throughout the year. Check out my website for upcoming events.

Exhibitions:

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 Gallery, Oldenburg, Germany
- Church, Installation project, House Gallery, Camberwell, London

2013
- Repre Art Collective, Silvex Studios, Shoreditch, London

2012
- 20:12, DegreeArt Gallery, London
- Repre Art Collective, The Crypt Gallery, Trafalgar Sq

2010
- National Open Art Exhibition 2010

2009
- National Open Art Exhibition 2009
- Align, Edgar Modern Gallery, Bath,
- Islington Arts Summer Salon, London
- An Age of Miracles, Brick Lane Gallery, London

2008
- New Blood 2008, Britannia House, London
- 63 Degrees, Degree Show , Coventry University
- New Horizons, RBSA, Birmingham


Performances:

2016
- Three Heads, UK Young Artists Festival, Derby, UK
- Dance and Draw, A/S/L, C&C Gallery, London
- Dance and Draw, BBK Oldenburg Gallery, Germany
- Dance and Draw, "Visions in the Nunnery", The Nunnery Gallery, London - a 'Frieze' recommended event

2014
- Dance and Draw, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London
- Dance and Draw, Voila Festival, The Cockpit Theatre, London
- Dance and Draw, Eye Candy Festival, Birmingham
- Dance and Draw, The Workshop, Paris, France

2013
- Three Heads, DegreeArt Gallery, London


Residencies:

2016
- Jour et Nuit Collectif, Saint Michel, Paris
2013
- Repre Art Collective, DegreeArt Gallery, London


Projects:

2011/12 - BT sponsored Storyteller for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games