Simon Callery
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Life and work
He was educated at Campions school, AthensAthens
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, Greece
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, and gained a first class honours degree from Cardiff College of Art in 1983. He has worked in Turin, and is now resident in London
London
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He first exhibited at the Whitechapel Open
Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long...
in 1989. He paints cityscapes which are abstracted to the point of making them conceptual images.
In 1994, Callery was included in the exhibition Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
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In January 1999, the Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
gave the Arts Council
Arts Council of Great Britain
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collection 100 works, including work by Callery. The collection is administered by the Hayward Gallery
Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...
, which arranges loans to regional museums.http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/gallery/gift.htm
April–August 2003, Callery created The Segsbury Project, working with archeologists on a Bronze Age ditch and an Iron Age hill fort on the Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. The project included sculpture and photographs. This major exhibition was displayed at only two venues in the UK, Dover Castle and the Storey Galleryhttp://www.contemporary-magazine.com/reviews52_1.htmhttp://www.storeygallery.org.uk This gave him the experience of being able "to see how a painter of the urban landscape from London's East End would respond to a paradigm of the English landscape." http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1283_215/ai_n6120341
Other exhibitions include Art Now at Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
, and Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris (2002).
His work is held in the collection of the Tate
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