Goldsmiths - University of London

Simon Bedwell

Possibilities of politics in found and made objects (including paintings); found images made fictional; position of women apropos imagery and representation; institutional critique genre used as rhetoric and bitter humour; deliberate naivete/intellectual vulgarity as a genre.

Presentations and exhibitions

Recent solo exhibitions

2007 THE RECEIVERS MOT, London
THE FURNISHERS White Room, White Columns, New York

2006 THE RESEARCHERS Byam Shaw School of Art gallery, London

2005 THE ADVERTS Rental, Los Angeles
GENTS: A Melodrama with 2 Acts Platform, London
SIMON BEDWELL Ritter/Zamet, London

2004 ADVERTISING DOESN’T TELL ANYONE ANYTHING ANYWAY Piccadilly Circus Underground station concourse, London

2003 SIMON BEDWELL & MILLY THOMPSON Store, London (BANK show)
ART IS HELL The Suburban, Chicago (BANK show)

2002 BANK Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
CAPITULATER! Project, Dublin (solo BANK show/billboard)

2001 BANK@ChapmanFineARTS.cum.uk.unt Chapman Fine Arts, London, Rev:Martin Coomer/Time Out
BANK Centre for Artist Books, University of Dundee

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITION [Please Note: From 1991 until 2003, Simon Bedwell worked as part of the London-based artists group BANK]

2007 I AM THE FLY FRAC-PACA, Marseilles
FAX-BACKS Dolores/de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
FAST & LOOSE(My Dead Gallery) Fieldgate Gallery, London

2006 BRING THE WAR HOME
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York & QED Gallery, Los Angeles
OFF Outpost, Norwich
PIMPS AND HOOKERS 1000000mph, London
SIMON/SARAH Platform, London
RIGHT ON/WRITE OFF Chapman Fine ARTS, London

2005 PAINTINGS WITHOUT PAINTERS, PAINTERS WITHOUT PAINTINGS Orchard, New York
ENGLAND THEIR ENGLAND Laden Fur Nicht, Leipzig
POST NO BILLS White Columns, New York
BRIT POVERA Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna
SHOUTING AT THE TELEVISION Online project cur: JJ Charlesworth & Mustafa Halusi
STILL LIFE MAC, Niteroi, Rio de Janeira & Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima cat

2004 GALLEON & OTHER STORIES Saatchi Gallery, London
BECKS FUTURES 5 ICA London & CCA Glasgow
GRATE BRITAIN Cell, London
SLIMVOLUME 5 Redux, London
THE SOUND OF THE CROWD Ritter/Zamet, London
TONIGHT Studio Voltaire, London
STILL LIFE Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama, Museo de Arte Moderna, Guatemala City, Guatemala & SESI, Sao Paulo, Brasil
FRASS UBS Bullion Vault, London
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT FROG WHO WANTED TO BE A PRINCE? HE WENT TO A BED AND DREAMED THAT HE WAS ONE... WOKE UP AND FOUND THAT HE HAD BECOME ONE. HE WAS STILL A FROG Club Egg, London
FORGETKULT The McAllister Institute, New York web interview www.artkrush.com: BANK, Simon Bedwell, Storm van Helsen
SUBSCRIBE: RECENTART IN PRINT Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
NIHILISM/FAITH 47 Paul St, London
CHOKKAFUCKINBLOKKA Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
STILL LIFE Museo de Belles Artes, Caraccas, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gill, Mexico City & Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota

2002 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
JOHN MOORES 22 The Walker, Liverpool. Prizewinner
STILL LIFE Museo de Belles Artes, Santiago,
LOCATION: UK Gimpel Fils, London
ART CRAZY NATION Milton Keynes Gallery
IT’S ONLY WORDS mirror, London
PROJECT VALIS 291 Gallery. London
THE INK JETTY Neon Gallery, London
POWER BALLADS Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York

2001 CENTURY CITY Tate Modern, London cat Incl. Bank, Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Janette Parris etc cur Emma Dexter
DUB’L-INTROODER Transmission, Glasgow
RECORD COLLECTION VTO, London & Forde Espace d’art Contemporain, Geneva

Selected publications

Platform 1998 – 2006, ed. Sheila Lawson, published by Platform, 2006 ISBN 0-9538800-2-B
The Suburban, The Early Years 1999 – 2003, ed. Grabner & Killam , Suburban Publications 2004
Slimvolume4, poster publication, cur. Andrew Hunt, published by Slimvolume 2004
100 Reviews Backwards, 3 BANK reviews, Alberta Press 2002
100 Reviews (again), Farquarson review BANK@ChapmanFineARTS.cum.uk.unt, Alberta Press, 2001
Protest & Survive catalogue (poster inert), ed. Matthew Higgs/Paul Noble, Whitechapel Gallery 2000
Art Crazy Nation Matthew Collings, C21 Publishing 2001
The Tastemakers:UK Art Now Rosy Millard, Thames & Hudson, 2001
Art For All? ed. Ingrid Swenson/Andrew Brighton, Peer Press 2001
Century City (catalogue, ed Ivona Blaswick) Tate Publishing 2001
BANK, Colour monograph, Black Dog Publishing, 2000, ISBN 1 901033 42 2

Recent artist projects & commission

/seconds, Poster contribution to web publication, 2006
Becks 20th Anniversary, Becks/London Underground billboard commission, 2005
Project for Put About, Bookworks, 2004
Project for Passion issue, I-D Magazine, June 2004
Fax Backs, Project for X-Tra magazine (Los Angeles), Winter 2003

Recent reviews, articles & interviews

Holland Cotter, The Art is Sharp, the Categories Blurry, New York Times
16 Aug 06
Dan Fox, Poison Pen, Freize, Summer 2006
Roberta Smith Who Needs a White Cube These Days? New York Times
13 Jan 06
AA Gill et al, Art’s New Champions, Sunday Times magazine cover story,
9 Jan 05
Richard Dorment, The fakes that reveal reality, Daily Telegraph 14 July 04
Nick Hackworth, Still making waves, Evening Standard, 6 July 04
Jen Thatcher, Ad-man you’re a not-so-bad man (interview), The Future,
Summer 04
Alisdair X, Beck’s Futures, Sleaze, April 04
Jonathan Jones, Saatchi all at sea, Guardian, 3 July 04
Iain Gale, Going back to the futures, Scotland on Sunday, 27 June 04
John Hardy, Contemporary Art, Glasgow, The Burlington Magazine, June 04
Duncan Macmillan, Big screen – but very small ideas, The Scotman, 10 June 04
Emmanual Cooper, Blend it like Becks, Tribune, 14 May 04
Gilda Williams, The Sound of the Crowd, Art Monthly, May 04
Morgan Falconer, The Sound of the Crowd, What’s On, 15-21 April 04
Huw Lewis-Jones, Beck’s Futures, Varsity, 30 April 04
Helen Sumpter, Beck’s Futures 2004, The Big Issue, 12 April 04
Tim Cornwell, Artistic bunch in need of Becks appeal, The Scotsman,
24 March 04
Len Horsey, Simon Bedwell, Flux magazine, March 04
Andrew Renton, Beck’s still has a future, Evening Standard, 23 March 04
Mark Sladen, Buried Treasures, Art Review, December/January 04
Martin Gayford, Dust, fluff and Cilla, Daily Telegraph, 31 March 04
Adrian Searle, Full steam ahead, The Guardian, 30 March 04
Sue Hubbard, Allure isn’t all that bright, The Independant Review, 29 March 04
Waldemar Januszczak, Beck’s Futures, Sunday Times Culture Supplement, 28 March 04
Oliver Bennett, Is it really art? Yes, actually, Observer Review, 28 March 04
Charles Darwent, Bananas and fluff: it’s the (Beck’s) future, Sunday Independant, 28 March 04
Rod Liddle, Tosh and Beck’s, The Times, 27 March 04
Moira Jeffrey, Space is the artistic frontier, Glasgow Herald, 26 March 04
Michelle Grabner, Thoughts on Artists’ Collectives, X-Tra magazine, Winter 03
Sally O’Reilly, Simon Bedwell & Milly Thompson, Time Out, 15 – 21 July 03
Sally O’Reilly, Nihilism/Faith, Time Out, 8 – 14 July 03
Ned Denny, Moore’s the Pity, New Statesman, 14th Oct 02
Dave Beech, Location:UK, Art Monthly, Sept 02
Carol Kino, Report From London, Art in America, Oct 02
Marcus Field, Where are we? (Er, in a gallery), Independent on Sunday,
1st Sept 02
Paul Tebbs, Location UK, Architects Journal, 29th Aug 02
Nick Hackworth, Location UK, Evening Standard, 15th Aug 02
Mark Wilsher, Location:UK, What’s On, 14th Aug 02
Eugene Tan, BANK, Contemporary, June-Aug 02
Gilda Williams, BANK, Art Monthly, May 02
Sally O’Reilly, BANK, Time Out 10-17 April 02
Neil Mulholland, Dub’l-inTROODer, Freize, June-August 01
Chris Turner, Century City, Freize, June-August 01
Martin Coomer, BANK, Time Out, 18-25 April 01
Dave Beech, Bank Account (interview), Untitled, Summer 01
Elizabeth Mahoney, Dub’l-inTROODer, The Guardian, 14 March 2001

Recent miscellaneous press

Dustin Ericksen, 3 Ages of London’s ICA, Afterall online journal, November 06
William Pye, Bring The War Home, Diary, Art Forum online, Summer 06
JK, Constructed Worlds, Modern Painters, April 05
Charlotte Higgins, Ensnared, The Guardian, 28 April 04
Critics’ Choice, Beck’s Futures, Time Out, 7 April 04
Teamspirit, in vogue, Vogue Magazine, April 04
Oliver Bennett, Mixed messages, Design Week, 25 March 04
Fisun Guner, Monkey business, Metro, 26 March 04
Louise Jury, The face of modern art(drawn on a banana), The Independant, 24 March 04
Luke Leitch, What do you do with the fluff on your new carpet? Evening Standard, 23 March 04
Maev Kennedy, Schlock horror, The Guardian, 16 Dec 03
Metro London, Modern art is just fluff and nonsense, The Metro, 24 March 2004
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Novelty 21st Century style, The Times, 24 March 2004
Michael Wilson, New York, Contemporary, June-August 2003
Robert Clark Simon Bedwell & Milly Thompson, Guardian Guide, June 21-27 03
Vida Social, Principe Andres en el Belles Artes, El Mercurio, 9 Nov 02
Richard Dyer, London, Contemporary, June-Aug 02
Helen Sumpter, BANK, Hot Tickets, 12-18 April 02
Robert Garnett, God is een Curator, Metropolis M, April/Mei 02
Prunella Hayes, BANK, Art Review, April 02
Kate Bernard, Art Crazy Nation, The Tatler, Jan 02
Dave Beech, When was London, Untitled, Spring 01
Adrian Searle, Urban Sprawl, Guardian G2, 1 Feb 01
Clare Carolyn, Un Juego Mercantil. Tres Puntos de Vista, Lapiz No. 169 – 170, Feb 01
Dave Beech, Century City, Untitled, Spring 01

Recent TV

HISTORY OF BRIT ART, Vanessa Engle/BBC2, 2002
HELLO CULTURE, Matthew Collings/Oxford Television, Channel 4, 2001