My love and relationship with the remote South Australian landscape continues to evolve and grow as I further explore and come to understand the fine line and inextricable links between how the perceptions of beauty can so rapidly become one of isolation, fear and despair. My work reflects this evolving relationship in how depicting a seemingly vacant landscape evokes emotions grounded in a complex myriad of social, political and cultural history

Simon has a Masters in Visual Arts & Designs (painting), BA Teaching (Senior School Arts) and BA Industrial Design, University of SA. He has exhibited in several solo and group shows in Adelaide, Streaky Bay, Pt Lincoln, Ceduna and Thevenard. Simon has won numerous art prizes for his work and recently exhibited in the group exhibition “d a n c e” at The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery.