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Linda Simon

I make objects and installations using familiar materials, often incorporating encoded information and/or textiles.  I enjoy experimenting with scale, light, colour and multiplicity to create site-responsive, playful work that questions how people perceive and respond to art and the space it inhabits.

I am a member of Filaments Art Collective - a group of 5 Kent-based artists. We create art events and installations using light, thread, projections, paper, neon and reflective materials.

Following a career as an IT professional, I graduated from the University of the Creative Arts (UCA) in 2013 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. I was one of seven artists selected for the Platform Graduate Showcase exhibition at Turner Contemporary in 2013. In 2019 I was a joint winner of The London Group’s President’s Prize.


Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions and Events

Filaments III

20th and 21st October 2023 6-9pm

St Mary’s Church, Burham, ME1 3XY

Join us for our 3rd winter art show in the medieval church of St Mary’s. Bring a torch.

Exhibiting artists:

Elizabeth Burman

Karen Crosby

Rosie James

Ruth Payne

Linda Simon

 

Whose Hoo Heritage Festival

Saturday 13th May 10-4pm

Slough Fort, The Brimp, Allhallows, Kent ME3 9QF

A Filaments Arts commission by LV21.

The Hoo Peninsula is a unique landscape with a rich natural, historical, and cultural heritage.

Whose Hoo Heritage Festival celebrates this local heritage and brings together inspiring stories, people and places from across the peninsular.

Join local artists, performers and community partners for a free fun family day out!

Explore site-specific art installations, take part in drop-in arts and crafts activities, join a guided tour of the fort or bring your own lunch and just sit back to enjoy the live entertainment.

Meet some of the Whose Hoo partner organisations and find out more about the project and opportunities to get involved. And much more...


Connectivity

10 - 11 February 2023

Intra Arts, Old High Street, Chatham

A Filaments commission for Medway Light Nights.

Connectivity refers to the history and location of the building itself. It was once the Gentlemen & Boys Outfitters of Featherstone’s department store, and latterly housed a company called ‘Spemco’ who manufactured printed electrical circuit boards. Chatham Intra is the name commonly used to denote the area that links Rochester and Chatham.
Highlighting the history of the area as well as referencing the past and future role of technology locally, ‘Connectivity’ uses the symbol of a circuit board to explore networks, connectivity and energy running through people and communities. The artists have used a wild arrangement of lights and colour springing from the circuit board base, spreading and connecting one piece to another, to create something magical, fun and fizzing with the energy and power of light.