Garth Simmons

Garth Simmons was born in 1981 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He has had a huge interest in art since a very early age and after graduating from the University of Hull with a BA Hons in Fine Art in 2004, Garth has taken part in a wide range of exhibitions and events including having his work shown at the Best of Manchester Awards through Contents May Vary.

His artwork veers heavily in the direction of abstraction and depicts densely populated compositions of shape, colour and form. This is delivered through various combinations of media and techniques. Although his main fascination at the moment is with collage, print and photocopiers his methods also include drawing, painting, animation and automatic writing.

His previous work informs everything following it, to the point that it is often cut and sliced into new forms and patterns, creating many unexpected textural permutations. This allows for potentially infinite developments upon a personal aesthetic and creates bright, illogical and otherworldly abstract images that take the form of fragmented, improbable landscapes and spinning geometric bodies which grow and fall under the influences of their surrounding effects. There is an autonomous aspect to Garth's art but in contrast to this organic autonomy there is an internal logic and narrative that is huge element of the underlying process, concept and theme of the work.

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To purchase an artwork or to commission Garth contact Everyman Art Gallery.