SELECTED WORKS BY Simon Bedwell
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Simon Bedwell
Life After Liberalisation
2004
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Some of the posters have had their transient commercial directives so intertwined with the artist's fictional and material alterations that it is impossible to tell where the original ends and the mutation begins. |
Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Brains)
2003
spray paint on found poster
79.2 x 59.5 cm |
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Whilst destroying the quick-hit, constantly shifting message of this ephemeral material, Simon Bedwell also saves it, giving it new weight and an object-quality that meanwhile retains an echo of the familiar. |
Simon Bedwell
Britney Spears
2004
Spray paint on poster
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Using ClipArt and WordArt software, available to almost anybody with a computer, Simon Bedwell's posters combine found pictures with words and phrases, real and invented. |
Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Forgetkult)
2003
spray paint on found poster
43 x 62.3 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Come to London)
2004
spray paint on found poster on aluminium
64.3 x 49.3 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Eliteratti)
2004
spray paint, acrylic and collage on paper
121.5 x 152 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Exhibition)
2004
spray paint on found poster
43.7 x 55.5 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Festival)
2004
spray paint on found poster
96 x 135 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Freud Museum)
2004
spray paint on found poster
127 x 99.7 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Marli Renfro Centre)
2003
spray paint on found poster
139.5 x 100 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Struggl)
2003
spray paint and acrylic on paper
121.5 x 152.3 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Tate Jamaica)
2003
spray paint on found poster
89 x 63 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (The Rich..)
2004
spray paint on found poster on aluminium
52 x 74.5 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Untitled (Your Worst Fear)
2004
spray paint on found poster
75 x 55.5 cm |
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Simon Bedwell
Liffosucter
2004
oil, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
158 x 213 cm |
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As in much of Simon Bedwell’s work, a wide range of visual material, from promotional blurbs to local newspaper headlines, from '50s photography to Communist Bloc advertising, combines to shape the final images. |
Simon Bedwell
Proposed Suburban Monument
2004
oil and acrylic on canvas
207 x 165 cm |
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Simon Bedwell is best known for his hand-manipulated trashed posters and photographs, using text and spray-paint to generate esoteric, strangely poignant or crass comedic fusions of word and image. |
Simon Bedwell
Capitulater
2004
acrylic on canvas
158.5 x 213.5 cm |
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Simon Bedwell draws on the visual vernacular of the streets, employing the cheap and throwaway nostalgia of posters scavenged from billboards, bargain bins and thrift stores as raw materials to fragment, divert and elaborate the original meaning into absurd compositions, poetic narratives and sardonic allegories of power. |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
OTHER RESOURCES
the-artists.org
Modern and contemporary artists and art; Simon Bedwell
tfl.gov.uk - Simon Bedwell: Advertising Never Tells Anyone Anything Anyway
Simon Bedwell, one of ten artists shortlisted for Beck's Futures 2004, has created four sets of posters specifically for Piccadilly Circus Station.
Using ClipArt and WordArt software, available to almost anybody with a computer, Bedwell's posters combine found pictures with words and phrases, real and invented.
As in much of his work, a wide range of visual material, from promotional blurbs to local newspaper headlines, from '50s photography to Communist Bloc advertising, combines to shape the final images.
dennishollingsworth.us - Dennis Hollingsworth on Simon Bedwell
Simon Bedwell is best known for his hand-manipulated trashed posters and photographs, using text and spray-paint to generate esoteric, strangely poignant or crass comedic fusions of word and image. The work draws on the visual vernacular of the streets, employing the cheap and throwaway nostalgia of posters scavenged from billboards, bargain bins and thrift stores as raw materials to fragment, divert and elaborate the original meaning into absurd compositions, poetic narratives and sardonic allegories of power.
findarticles.com - BANK at Gallerie Poo-Poo by Mark Harris
Simon Bedwell, John Russell, Milly Thompson and Andrew Williamson constitute BANK, the unconventional London collaborative that organizes shows in its own warehouse space, incorporating other artists' contributions into manic Gesamtkunstwerke that have included zombie mannequins, endurance performances, fake waterfalls and Mahler symphonies. With memorable titles like "Cocaine Orgasm," these shows subsume their components into jarring installations where the interactivity of art works is just the point. Far from putting off participants, this forced surrender of autonomy has attracted many prominent artists interested in subjecting their work to radical, and often irreverent, recontextualization.
btinternet.com - An appraisal of BANK By John Rogers. Simon Bedwell – a founder member of BANK
I first heard about BANK when Dave Burrows mentioned it during a talk about his work. I didn't know what he meant when he started talking about Bank, but I got the feeling that he expected me to. He was talking about one of his early post graduate exhibitions, a show that sounded quite interesting to me a cool, London, flippant, pop kind of way. It was 'Cocaine Orgasm' (1991) and Dave's piece consisted of little drawings of pop stars and philosophers fighting - Jarvis Cocker having as punch up with Wittgenstein, Liam Gallagher giving Adorno a wedgie, all standing in the giant pile of 'cocaine' that formed the centrepiece of the show.
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