Collection: Simon Kirk | Artist

Simon Kirk is an Essex-based contemporary artist (Coventry University, 1999, BA Hons Fine Art) whose mixed media artworks have proven to be a strong investment, increasingly sought after by art collectors in America, Dubai and Continental Europe since he began his career in 2007.

Simon's works are a synergy of poetry and painting, text and image, abstraction and figuration, combining influences from both the literary and art worlds. Influenced by haiku, humanist concerns and the philosophical ideas of 'the Absurd', his layered mixed media pieces invite the viewer to build their own narrative from the fragments before them.

Simon has exhibited and sold work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2010, 2013 and 2015, and has exhibited globally at Affordable Art Fairs with Turner Art Perspective. In 2016 and 2017, he was featured in the annual advertising takeover of Regent's Park tube station. Simon has been interviewed by the BBC, featured in Vogue and House & Garden magazines, and had one of his paintings used for the front cover of Inside Art Magazine.

His works are primarily layers of painting combined with collaged elements, using the de-collage technique of cutting, tearing or sanding away parts of the built-up surface image to reveal the layers below. Much of the work is on a small-scale format, which offers the freedom to explore a range of painting possibilities quickly, combined with larger pieces based on the same materials.

"Perhaps to describe best how I see it would be to say that I play the role of set designer. I create the environment and provide the players. Elements of text where present act as set direction. The viewer becomes the director, who uses all the information before them to create the play. That the resulting story could be different for everyone is something that fascinates me." - Simon Kirk

Simon Kirk's limited-edition prints and original mixed media artworks are sought after by collectors of contemporary British art, text art and abstract figurative art looking for layered, narrative-rich pieces.