Education

1989–91 The Slade School of Art
1984–87 Falmouth School of Art

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
172nd Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2024
171st Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2023
Summer Exhibition 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London

170th Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2022
Summer Exhibition 2022, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2020-21
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020, Siân Bowen and Simón Granell, Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth 

2020
Wells Art Contemporary, Virtual Exhibition

Enough is Definitely Enough, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

Derwent Art Prize, Gallery@OXO, London and 20 rue Saint Claude, Paris

Enough is Definitely Enough, Oceans Apart, Salford

Westmorland Landscape Prize, Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Cumbria

Holding Space, Curated by Kate Buckley, General Practice, Lincoln

2019
Enough is Definitely Enough: Contemporary Artists respond to Las Meniñas, General Practice, Lincoln

165 Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy

2017
A Painting Exhibition, curated by Sian Hutchings, The Bandstand, Lower Gardens, Bournemouth

Inventory of Behaviours, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern

MIDPOINTNESS, AirSpace Projects, Stoke on Trent

2015-16
MIDPOINTNESS, The Lock Up, Newcastle, Australia, AirSpace Projects, Stoke on Trent

2014–15
(Detail), H Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand, Transition Gallery, London, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
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2014
Down to Zero, Patrick Heide Contemporary Fine Art, London
Curated by Michael Roberts

Drawology: One Year On. Lanchester Gallery, Coventry.
Curated by Deborah Harty

2013–14
A Machine Aesthetic, Co-curator. Gallery North, Northumbria University, Arts University Bournemouth, University of Lincoln Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts

2013
Drawology: Drawing as phenomenology. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. Curated by Deborah Harty

2012
ReGroup, 51 Clerkenwell Road, London

The Devil finds work for idle hands, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, Geary St, San Francisco

2011
Artist Associate: Beyond the Commission, The Gallery, AUCB and ArtSway

We are all in this together, Bureau Gallery, Manchester

2007
Meeting Place, Russell-Cotes Galleries & Museum and Arts University Bournemouth

Underground, Co-curator. Shoreditch Town Hall, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015
Nov '07 - May 09 (detail), Installation, Projectspaceplus, University of Lincoln

2009
a Sanchez Cotán, Galleri Pluss Minus, Trondheim, Norway

2008–09
In no particular order, text+work, Arts University Bournemouth

Curation

2022
Interwoven spudWORKS, Sway, New Forest UK - Co-curator with Clare Baskerville.
The premise of the project was to explore ways of making and being through creative and social weavings where objects, materials, conversations or bodies become combined.

From a relativistic perspective, in the world we inhabit, every thing is identified and defined by relative positions and qualities. As a result, we are woven into a dualistic narrative of me and you, Self and other, good and bad. Alternatively, is there an absolute dimension of reality, in which each and everything is part of a seamless whole; where we are processes not things?

Do we weave through interdependence, where each thing is defined by its relationships to other things, and by differentiation, with what it is not? Or do we weave through independence, where each thing has absolute value and its unique place within the seamless whole?

2018
Drawing Boundaries: Folding Islands workshop – Co-curator with Siän Bowen.
Public drawing workshop, British Pavilion, Giardini, Biennale Architettura 2018, Venice

2015              
I know what I like - 1/7 - 14/7 2015
Curator of Swedish Artist Jacob Dahlgren's Peinture Abstraite - Curated Shows

While Dahlgren stands immobile in the designated t-shirt of the day, the shifting world satellites him, and reminds us of a human need for an anchor for our reflections in the world; a grid reference or co-ordinate.

In the song I know what I like (In Your Wardrobe) by Genesis, Jacob’s namesake, a one time roadie for the band, is the protagonist that chooses to remain just as he is, pushing a lawnmower, in favour of the failing world around him. Perhaps he was stupid. Jacob refers to himself as “stupid”. From Wednesday 1st July 2015 I invite Jacob to: perform an act of kindness for someone else, however small, once a day, and reflect upon his stupidity for 14 days. He should wear a t-shirt as the mood takes him; perhaps a favourite, one that he needs to become reacquainted with, one he doesn’t like, one that matches his trousers. I imagine you know what you like. http://www.jacobdahlgren.com

2013–14
A Machine Aesthetic, Gallery North, Northumbria University, The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Norwich University of the Arts.
An exploration of the various manifestations, uses and influences of different aspects of Mechanisation within the practice of a diverse range of contemporary artists. Co-curated with Eric Butcher. Including Andrew Bracey, Eric Butcher, David Connearn, Rob Currie, Paul Goodfellow, Simón Granell, Emma Hart, Dan Hayes, Natasha Kidd, Tim Knowles, Michael Roberts.

2007
Underground, Basement rooms of Shoreditch Town Hall, East London.
An exploration of the conceptual and procedural relationships between the work of three contemporary artists: Roger Ackling, Eric Butcher and Simón Granell. We conceive of the support as a site with a particular history. Each artist determines this history through the performance of a variety of processes, procedures or systems. Each create surfaces that record, or manifest the histories of their own making. Our primary concern is with the creative act rather than resultant object, i.e. that which stands behind or ‘under’ the physical ground formed by the surface of the support. The object is a form of residue, the abandoned relic of a performance or ritual.

Awards/Grants:

2013-14
Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, A Machine Aesthetic

Interviews/Reviews:

2014
PEEL Magazine: A Machine Aesthetic, Gallery North by Lucy Moss

Andrew Bracey in conversation with Simón Granell and Eric Butcher, projectspaceplus, University of Lincoln. 05 04 2014

2013
PEEL Magazine: Zara Worth with Simón Granell and Eric Butcher, 09 12 2013

Professor Helen Baker in conversation with Simón Granell, Eric Butcher, Natasha Kidd and Paul Goodfellow. Gallery North, Northumbria University. 09 12 2013