Simon Carter (born 1961 in

Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ...

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) is an English artist and curator. He studied at

Colchester Institute Colchester Institute is a large provider of further and higher education based in the city of Colchester. Colchester Institute provides full-time and part-time courses for a wide variety of learners including 16 to 19 year olds, apprentices, adul ...

(1980–81) and then North East London Polytechnic (1981–84). Often described as a 'painter's painter', solo exhibitions of Carter’s paintings have been held by The SEA Foundation, Tiburg;

Messum's Messum's is an art gallery in Bury Street, St. James's, London, with a branch in Marlow, Buckinghamshire and an associated gallery in Tisbury, Wiltshire. History The gallery was founded by David Messum in 1963. The gallery exhibits contempor ...

, London and

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, Colchester. His work has been acquired by several art museums including

Abbot Hall Art Gallery Abbot Hall Art Gallery is a museum and gallery in Kendal, England. Abbot Hall was built in 1759 by Colonel George Wilson, the second son of Daniel Wilson of Dallam Tower, a large house and country estate nearby. It was built on the site of the o ...

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Rugby Art Gallery and Museum The Rugby Art Gallery and Museum is a combined art gallery and museum in central Rugby, Warwickshire, in England. The purpose-built building housing it is shared with Rugby library; it was opened in 2000 and was built in the place of Rugby's previ ...

Swindon Art Gallery Swindon Museum and Art Gallery is a mothballed museum in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, which is currently closed while a new venue is sought. Collections The Swindon Art Gallery collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H. J. P. ...

and the

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. Carter’s painting lies between figuration and abstraction, illustrating both landscape and the subjectivity of looking, to reflect a perceptual and psychological experience of the world. In 2013 he collaborated with artist

Robert Priseman Robert Priseman (born in Spondon, Derbyshire in 1965) is a British artist, collector, writer, curator and publisher who lives and works in Essex, England. Over 200 works of art by Priseman are held in art museum collections around the world in ...

to form the artist led group

Contemporary British Painting Contemporary British Painting is an artists' collective of over 60 members, founded in 2013 by Robert Priseman with the assistance of Simon Carter. It is a platform for contemporary painting in the UK "seeking to explore and promote critical co ...

and then the ‘East Contemporary Art Collection’, the first dedicated collection of contemporary art for the East of England which is housed at the

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, Ipswich. Carter is President of Colchester Art Society and has been

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at the

and

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Selected solo exhibitions

* "Approaching the Remote" The Minories Galleries, Colchester, UK (2017) * “Simon Carter: Paintings” SEA Foundation,

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, The Netherlands (2016) * “The Series Paintings”

, London (2015) * “A Walk in the Park” Art Exchange,

, England (2014) * “New Paintings”

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, London (2013) * “The Shapes of Light” Messum's, London (2013) * “Now and Then” Boat House Gallery,

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, Flatford, England (2012) * “Borderlines”

, London (2011) * “Promenade”

Gallery, Essex, England (2010) * “Representation” The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, England (2010) * “New Paintings”

, London (2009) * “Get Constable” Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich, Suffolk, England (2008) * “Another Day on the Beach”

, Colchester, Essex, England (2003) * “Simon Carter, Paintings”

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, Sudbury, Suffolk, England (1993)

Selected group exhibitions

* "Anything Goes?" Art Bermondsey Project Space, London (2017) * "Drawing Into Landscape" The Crypt, Marylebone, London (2017) * "Contemporary Masters From Britain" touring to'' ''Yantai Art Museum, the Jiangsu Art & Craft Museum, Nanjing Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China (2017) * "Contemporary Painting: In Good Health" Menier Gallery, London (2017) * "Contemporary Masters From The East Of England" (2017) The Cut, Halesworth, UK * "RWS Contemporary Watercolours" (2017) Bankside Gallery, London * ‘‘Contemporary British Watercolours’’ (curated and exhibited) Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, Devon, England (2016) * ''70 Years of Colchester Art Society'' (2016)

- artists include

Cedric Morris Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet (11 December 1889 – 8 February 1982) was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia. As an artist he is best known for his portra ...

John Nash (artist) John Northcote Nash (11 April 1893 – 23 September 1977) was a British painter of landscapes and still-lives, and a wood engraver and illustrator, particularly of botanic works. He was the younger brother of the artist Paul Nash (artist), Pau ...

and Valerie Thornton. * ‘‘Belrose Highlights” SEA Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2016) * ‘‘At Sea” The Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, England (2016) * ‘‘Slippery and Amorphous” The Crypt Hall, Marylebone, London (2016) * ‘‘The Brentwood Stations of the Cross” SE9 Container Gallery, Eltham, London (2015) * ‘‘The Brentwood Stations of the Cross”

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, Essex, England (2015) * ‘‘RWS Contemporary Watercolours” Bankside Gallery, London. Prizewinner (2015) * ‘‘Contemporary British Painting” Huddersfield Art Gallery (2014) * ‘‘@PaintBritain” Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk (2014) * ‘‘Messum's” Art Toronto, Canada (2014) * ‘‘East Contemporary Art” Waterfront Gallery, UCS Ipswich (2014) * ‘‘Messum's” Art Toronto, Canada (2013) * ‘‘New East Anglian Painting” Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk (2012) * ‘‘Francis Bacon to Paula Rego”

, Kendal (2012) * ‘‘East Coast Influences” Messum's, London (2012) * ‘‘Summer Exhibition”

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

, London (2010) * ‘‘East Coast Influences” Messum's, London (2008) * ‘‘Summer Exhibition”

, London (2007) * ‘‘Looking Forward” Agnew's, London (2007) * ‘‘A Splash of Colour” Grafton Gallery, London (2006) * ‘‘Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting”

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery located in, Hastings, East Sussex, England. Established in 1892, it originally resided in the Brassey Institute (now the town's library), but moved to its current location in 1927. it ...

(2004) * ‘‘This Flat Earth” University of Essex Gallery, Colchester (2000) * ‘‘Cheers!” The British Lime Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (1999) * ‘‘Artists in Wetzlar” Wetzlar, Germany (1999) * ‘‘Shop till you Drop” Firstsite, Colchester, Essex (1999) * ‘‘On the Border” Wolsey Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk and firstsite, Colchester, Essex (1997) * ‘‘Civic Centre” Ludwigsburg, Germany (1993)

Selected collections

* Art for Loan, Essex County Libraries * East Contemporary Art Collection,

* Komechak Art Gallery, Benedictine University, Chicago, USA * Madison Museum of Fine Art, Georgia, USA *

The Priseman Seabrook Collection The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Wor ...

Selected publications

Simon Carter (2014) @PaintBritain: 45 Contemporary Painters Simon Carter (2012) New East Anglian Painting Simon Carter (1999) Another Day on the Beach: With essays by Crispin Downs, Annabel Longbourne and Professor Peter Vego

References

External links

* Simon Carter's artist websit

* ArtFacts.Ne

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