Simon Callery (born 1960 in

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) is an

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artist.

Life and work

He was educated at Campions school,

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, and gained a first class honours degree from

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in 1983. He has worked in

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, and is now resident in

. He first exhibited at the Whitechapel Open in 1989. He paints cityscapes which are abstracted to the point of making them conceptual images. In 1994, Callery was included in the exhibition ''Young British Artists III'' at the

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. In 1996 he was one of 19 artists chosen for an exhibition, at the

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, of the best of British painting in the Nineties. In January 1999, the

gave the Arts Council collection 100 works, including work by Callery. The collection is administered by the

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, which arranges loans to regional museums. April–August 2003, Callery created ''The Segsbury Project'', working with archeologists on a Bronze Age ditch and an Iron Age hill fort on the Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. The project included sculpture and photographs. This major exhibition was displayed at only two venues in the UK, Dover Castle and the Storey Gallery Other exhibitions include Art Now at

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, and Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris (2002). His work is held in the collection of the

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.Simon Callery - Archive - 1996
tate.org.uk

References

External links

Photo of Simon CallerySimon Callery Interview. Abstract Critical
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