FLEUR SIMON
London based Fleur Simon is an abstract painter, working primarily in epoxy resin on plywood. She creates abstract paintings that mix natural imagery with my emotional states, visualising these internal landscapes. Fleur graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School with first class honours, after her foundation at Central Saint Martins and scholarship semester at Paris College of Art.
Fleur was shortlisted for the Clyde & Co. Blank Canvas Award (2018), won the Wildcard Prize on SkyArts’s Landscape Art of the Year Award (2018), and was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2019.
Fleur is currently doing her MFA degree at The Ruskin School of Art in Oxford.
Exhibitions:
June 22 Group Show Materiality at Kindred House, Margate
Dec 21 2021 Emerging Artists, The Affordable Art Fair 2021
Dec 20 - April 21 Sugarcoated at Waterton Gallery
Oct 20 Wet Paint with Bowes Parris Gallery
Sep 20 Inside Out at Cave Pimlico
Sep 20 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour’s 208th Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
May 20 Duel Exhibition with artist James Wedge at Menier Gallery
2020 Group Show with YAP Gallery, Primrose Hill
Oct 2019 Group Show, Primrose Hill
Oct - Nov 2019 Group Show with YAP Art, Manor Barn, UK
July 2019 ‘Maker’s Mark’ Group Show, Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery, UK
June 2019 ‘Solo Show’, Studio 73 Gallery, London
June 2019 ‘From the Studio Floor’, UK
April - May 2019 ‘Micro’, Air Gallery, UK
March - April 2019 ‘Duel Show: Sue Kennington and Fleur Simon’, Sid Motion Gallery, London
Graduated City & Guilds of London Art School (1st Class Honours)
June 2018 Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London
June 2017 City & Guilds of London Art School Interim Show, The Crypt Gallery, London
June 2016 City & Guilds of London Art School Interim Show, Diorama Arts Studios, London
June 2014 Central Saint Martins Foundation Show 2014, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross Granary Building, London
Residencies/Awards:
January 2020 Long listed for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020 at Mall Galleries
February 2019 Shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2019
May 2018 Shortlisted for the Clyde & Co. Blank Canvas Award, 2018
June 2017 Winner of the Wildcard Prize on Landscape Art of the Year Award 2017, Aired on SkyArts 2017
Press:
Mar 2019 Artist on the Verge Interview with Art Verge
Feb 2019 Interview with artist platform Young Space
Feb 2019 Published in Average Art Magazine
Feb 2019 Artist Takeover for Semi Magazine
2019 Published in February issue of A5 Magazine
2019 Published in February issue of WOTISART? Magazine
2019 Artist Takeover for Assemblage Magazine
2018 Artist of the Week, interview with Collective 31
Collections:
The Welbeck Clinic Collection, London
The Monsoon Collection, London.
Soho House, London (on loan)
Education:
2019 Picture Frame Making (studio practice), The Camden College
2015 - 2018 BA Fine Art (Painting), City and Guilds of London Art School (1st Class Honours)
2017 Decorative Surfaces Paint Technique Practical Workshops, City and Guilds of London Art School & The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers
2014-2015 Foundation, on a scholarship to Paris College of Art
2013-2014 Foundation (Fine Art Practice), Central Saint Martins, UAL