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Simon Naish is an artist based in Manchester. ************************************************************ **************************** My work is a hybrid of pop art sensibilities and narrative figure painting, exploring the intersection between traditional painting techniques and contemporary forms of representation. My imagined histories are painted on large scale canvases; mock-epics which reflect a broad range of influences from literature and mythology to more contemporary visual sources. Influenced strongly by art-classical themes and motifs and subverting the scale, immediacy and coherent narrative inherent within graphic art, the paintings are labour intensive and large in scale, undercut with an element of humour which characterises much of my work. Abstract elements are combined with the figurative in a form of painted collage which exaggerates the artifice of the subject matter in order to heighten the sense of the unreal. Playful images of innocence are cast against a backdrop of bodily motifs and themes of violence, dispossession and discord reflecting a sense of menace and unease. ************************************************************ ****************************   I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Blog

Lowry Hotel Group Show

Below is the press release for the forthcoming group show at the Lowry Hotel. For more information on the exhibition, together with images, check out this link: http://www.commecaart.com/exhibitions_a...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:33:00 GMT

Sefton Open 2008

My work can be seen in this year's Sefton Open at the Atkinson Gallery, Southport.The exhibition runs from the 20th of September - 8th November. Atkinson Art Galllery, Lord Street, Southport, Merseysi...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:00 GMT

Thanksgiving of the Effluvians

"Thanksgiving of the Effluvians" (partially censored due to Myspace restrictions) is the latest painting in "The Fallopiad" series:
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:17:00 GMT

New Painting 2008

"Ensor and the Starmen traverse the Fallopus Mons"
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:59:00 GMT

"Dorian Gray Part 2 - Happy Days" - press release

    Dorian Gray Project: Happy Days Curated by Infinity Bunce and Katherine Lubar   8 October  9 November 2007  John Jo...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:50:00 GMT

New Painting

My new painting entitled, "The Terrible Dream of Sancho Panza" can be seen at the Instituto Cervantes, Manchester until the the 18th of May.
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:21:00 GMT

Dorian Gray - The Vegas Gallery

..> "Dorian Gray"Andy Harper, Ben Cove, Infinity Bunce, John Stark, Katherine Lubar, Nick Dawes, Piers Secunda, Shane Bradford, Simon Naish, James Roper15 June - 15 July 2007Private View T...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:42:00 GMT

The Beautiful/Terrible Dream of Sancho Panza

    For this exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Instituto Cervantes, Simon Naish has taken the author's fictional creation and his hopes and fears within the context of the n...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:33:00 GMT