About Simone
Simone is a contemporary artist, born in London. Simone’s multimedia practice explores the intersections of memory, phenomenology and the experience of the inner landscape.
‘The mind tackles duration as a simultaneous process merging past memory and future projection within a continually unfolding present.’ Henri Bergson
Having dedicated a decade to disciplines of Yoga and movement therapy, her work investigates the dichotomy of mind/body as understood by the philosophical underpinnings of yoga as an evolution of consciousness.
Simone’s work deals with the workings of the inner world, reflected in natural phenomena. Through photography, video art, drawing and lithography, we travel through sheaths of the outer body to the landscape of the inner body. Moon cycles, tides, solar energies and planetary movements; these cosmic circadian wanderings are captured across experimental media techniques, culminating in what she terms ‘Light Paintings’. They are an act of observation and slowing of time, to view each fragment of the present as interdependent.
Simone studied Interior Architecture at Brighton University and has since continued working in Architectural and Interior photography as well as conference and documentary work whilst participating in group shows in London and Somerset. Simone’s photography, printmaking techniques and new series of paintings have evolved from the process and design of building interior spaces into constructing doorways of perception, to create a possibility of heightened awareness: the senses when ignited can reveal to us a reality that is much deeper than the physical realm also known as the ‘gross body’.
The feminine, creator and energetic potential that is our life force is revealed in these works. There is a pregnancy and potency that is latent in our natural world; Simone’s works expose this simple reality of nature’s process and asks how it can be perceived through this lens that is the human experience.