Simon Averill British, b. 1961

Education

1981 - 1985

BA Hons Fine Art, Brighton Polytechnic of Art and Design

 

 

Teaching

1989 - 2020

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Falmouth University

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 2022

Entanglement, Anima Mundi, St Ives

 

2019

Point of Focus, Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance

 

2016

Singularity, Anima Mundi, St Ives

 

2014

Splitter, Millennium Gallery, St Ives

 

2011

Illumine, Millennium Gallery, St Ives

 

2009

Borrowed Light, Millennium Gallery, St Ives

 

2007

Minutiae, Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art, Penzance

 

2006

Recent Paintings, John Martin Gallery, Albemarle Street, London

 

2002

Wilson Stephens Fine Art, Albemarle Street, London

 

2000

Wilson Stephens Fine Art, Walton Street, London

 

1998

The Gallery in Cork Street, Wilson Stephens Fine Art, London

 

1996

The Independent Art Space, Wilson Stephens Fine Art, Smith Street, London

 

1993

Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath

 

1988

Salthouse Gallery, St Ives

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024-2025

Shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize, touring exhibition at BayArt in Cardiff, Thames-Side Studio Gallery in London and Yorkshire Artspace in Sheffield

 

2024

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London (selected by Anne Desmet)

 

2023

Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition, Bristol

 

2022

The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (selected by David Ferry and Ansel Krut)

Engage: An Exploration of Augmented Reality and Painting, Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance

Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells

 

2020

 Winner of the Howden Award, Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells

 

2016

From Silence, Herrick Gallery, London

 

2014

Unsettled, Falmouth teaching team exhibition at Enys House, Penryn

Scape, View, Bristol

 

2010

The House of Fairy Tales, The Millennium Gallery, St. Ives

 

2009

A Cornish Perspective, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Changing Landscape, John Martin Gallery, London

 

2008

The Drawing Show, Exchange Gallery, Penzance (selected by Kate MacFarlane and Mary Doyle)

No Theme, Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art, Penzance

 

2007

Move, Vyner Street, London

Margins, Sherborne House, Somerset

 

2005

Critic's Choice , The Lemon Street Gallery, Truro (selected by Norbert Lynton)

 

2004

Mixed Exhibition at The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

 

2003

Four Person Show at The Lynn Strover Gallery, Cambridge

The Discerning Eye, The Mall Gallery, London

 

2002

Mixed Exhibition at The Beardsmore Gallery, London

 

1999

Art 99, Thomas McCormick Gallery at Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA

 

1998

Mixed Exhibition at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

 

1995

National Trust Centenary Exhibition, Christies, London

Mixed Exhibition in Amersfoort, Holland

 

1994

Four Person Show at Plein 1 Gallery, Zeist, Holland

 

1992

7 Artistes Celtes, Chateau de Ker Jean, Brittany, France

The South West Open, Plymouth Arts Centre, Devon

 

1990

The South West Open, Plymouth Museum, Devon

 

1989

Four Person Show at Newly Art Gallery, Cornwall

 

1984

Stowells Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

 

1989 - 2004

Critics Choice, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (selected by Tim Hilton, Peter Fuller, Frances Graham Dixon, David Lee, Theo Waddington, Charlotte Mullings, Joan Bakewell and John Russell Taylor)