email: studio@simonbarkerstudio.com
website: www.simonbarkerstudio.com
Simon Barker trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. He works with moving image, sound and visual installation, often making use of archival materials and photographic documentations, exploring the potential of site specific and collaborative practice through research, exhibitions and commissions.
Based in Eastbourne, UK and Athens, Greece, he has exhibited internationally and has work in public and private collections.
Exhibitions and Projects
2026
'Always (crashing)' at Terminal Futures: J G Ballard in the 21st Century, Kingston University
2025
"Drift" co-written with Jason Wood published by The Modernist.
2023
Lektion film exhibited at Southwark Park Gallery London Annual Open 2023.
"Levelling Up" zine publication
2022-now
Member of sound art group Butoh Arme (with Yiannis Isidorou and Yiannis Grigordiadis).
2022-now
Member of free improvisation duo Kill All Strangers (with Jason Williams).
2022
“We could have had a cinema of painters instead of a cinema of Writers!”
Essay in booklet accompanying remastered Blueray edition of Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract.
2020
"Liminal State, Orson Welles's The Trial"
Essay in 'The Modernist issue 37 Kino'
2019-21
Warping, Threading, Weaving, Drawing film on exhibition, MOMA New York, October 2019 - January 2021
Garden of Eden 19th ETN Conference at Textil Kultur, Haslach, Austria. Cloud Shadows film (with Ismini Samanidou). July 2019.
"27 Collages" zine publication
2018
Warping, Threading, Weaving, Drawing film exhibited in Anni Albers retrospective: K20 Kunstsammlung North Rhine-Westphalia June - Sept
Tate Modern, London, Oct 2018 - Jan 2019.
You can go anywhere from anywhere exhibition with Ismini Samanidou, at Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards on Sea, November - December 2018
2017
Always (crashing) screening at the ICA with panel discussion.
Togetherness: Notes on Outrage group exhibition with Felicity Hammond, Polly Tootal, Shaun C Badham, Joseph Townshend, Catherine Yass, Mark Jenkin, Matthew Burgess and Jamie George. Kestle Barton Art Gallery, Cornwall.
2016
Films and installation included in group exhibition: Weaving & We: Hangzhou Triennial, China, September - October 2016
Always (crashing) film included in exhibition; Togetherness, Notes on Outrage; at South Kiosk gallery, London, July 2016
Always (crashing) film included in exhibition, East Sussex Open, at The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne July - September 2016
Always (crashing) screened at Whitstable Biennale, June 2016
Always (crashing), film (co-directed with Jason Wood. Screened at Curzon Soho; Curzon Bloomsbury; Home, Manchester; Glasgow Film Theatre; Queens Film Theatre, Belfast: Regent Street Cinema, London; Showroom, Sheffield; FACT Liverpool; Duke of Yorks Brighton; Ritzy, London; Picturehouse Central, London; Anthology Film Archives, New York. March – July 2016
2015
Remote Viewing, Solo exhibition Project 78 Gallery, East Sussex.
Human Nature group exhibition at Curious Projects, Eastbourne, July 2015.
2014
Le Fil des Possibles, Group exhibition at L’Espace des Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, France, collaborative installation and film with artist Ismini Samanidou.
2012
Recorded Delivery, Urban Fringe a collaborative multi-channel video work with artist Nayan Kulkarni.
A Song from Under a Bridge, Solo exhibition Rochester Art Gallery and Cine City, Brighton Film Festival. A film, photography and sound installation.
2011
Margate CCTV buoy project commission for The Kent Cultural Baton.
2010
After London: How We Learnt To Survive, Group Show, Sassoon Gallery, Peckham, London.
Mark Out 2- The Politics of Landscape and Place, Group Show, Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham.
“Room” Mobile Art Space (commission by Art at the Centre Swale).
2009
ReSource, Group Show, Aspace Gallery.
2008
Rfid works Aspace Gallery (with Patrick Jones),
Art at the Centre Swale public art competition: 1st prize Rushenden Tower proposal for a viewing and beacon tower.
Swanley Public art project – public art proposals and book works in association with Swanley town centre regeneration project (with Stephen Turner).
2007
Exhibition: Mark Out (group exhibition with Teresa Carnero, Patrick Jones and Onya Mccausland) Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
2006
Public art strategy and proposals for Queenborough and Rushenden (Arts Council commission).
2005
"Fore Shores" Project public artworks, prints, books and film (collaborative project with Stephen Turner, Ros Barber and Abbe Leigh Fletcher).
2004
Commission for a permanent floor installation at the Conquest Hospital, Hastings.
Collections Arts Council England, Cheltenham City Art Gallery.