Simon Carter Paintings

BIOGRAPHY

Simon Carter is an artist and curator who was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1961. He studied at Colchester Institute (1980–81) and then North East London Polytechnic (1981–84).

In 2013 he collaborated with artist Robert Priseman to form the artist led group Contemporary British Painting and then the ‘East Contemporary Art Collection’, the first dedicated collection of contemporary art for the East of England which is housed at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich.

Carter is President of Colchester Art Society and has been Artist-in-residence at the University of Essex and Firstsite, Colchester. He is represented by Messum's.

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Some New Paintings, Oasis, Frinton-on-Sea
2023 Looking Left & Looking Right, Messum’s, London
2022 Point-to-Point, Material Restlessness, with Jevan Watkins Jones, Naze Tower, Essex
2021 Shore Lines, with Jevan Watkins Jones, Firstsite, Essex
2021 Point-to-Point, with Jevan Watkins Jones, Hamilton MAS, Suffolk
2021 Messum’s Bury Street with Guy Taplin
2021 Walking Home, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
2020 Between Land and Sea, Messum’s, London
2020 Hayletts Gallery, Essex (online exhibition)
2018 Uppingham School, Rutland
2018 Simon Carter, Messum's Wiltshire
2018 Simon Carter, Messum's, London
2017 Signs and Wonders, Hayletts Gallery, Essex
2017 Approaching the Remote, The Minories, Essex
2016 Simon Carter: Paintings, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2015 The Series Paintings, Messum's, London
2014 A Walk in the Park, Art Exchange, University of Essex
2013 The Crypt, St. Marylebone Parish Church, London
2013 The Shapes of Light, Messum's, London
2011 Borderlines, Messum's, London
2010 Promenade, University of Essex Gallery, Essex
2010 On the Road, Walton Fine Art, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Selected MIXED EXHIBITIONS

2023 Darker than a Blackbird’s Retina, Byram Arcade Gallery, Huddersfield
2023 Safe House 2 Peckham, Jagger Johnson, London
2023 Nature: Tamed and Unbound, Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex
2023 A Green Thought in a Green Space, Artspace Woodbridge, Suffolk
2023 Paint Fictions, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska
2023 In the Garden, North House Gallery, Essex
2023 Aldeburgh Art Fair, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh
2023 East to East, Houghton Hall Stable, Contemporary and Country
2023 X - Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art
2023 The Horizontal Landscape, Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
2023 London Art Fair, with Messum’s, London
2022 British Art Fair, with Messum’s, Saatchi Gallery, London
2022 Paint Edgy, Contemporary British Painting, The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber
2022 Silent Stories, The Atrium, Seawhite, West Sussex
2022 Elements: Close to the Edge, Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
2022 As Seen on the Radio, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska
2022 The Granary Gallery, Norwich, Contemporary and Country
2022 River’s Edge, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Contemporary and Country
2022 Avant Gardeners, Houghton Hall Stable, Contemporary and Country
2022 Wish You Were Here, Terrace Gallery, London
2022 The Landscape Renaissance, Messum’s Marlow
2022 Paradoxes, Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Isle 0f Wight
2021 Creating Constable, Ipswich Museums
2021 Artists of Fame and Promise, Messum’s Bury Street, London
2021 Flirting with the Border Guards, Terrace Gallery, London
2021 Human:Nature, Contemporary British Painting group exhibition, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
2021 Shore, North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex
2021 Somewhere Unexpected, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
2020 Borders, Firstsite, Essex
2020 Beyond Other Horizons, Iasi Palace of Culture, Romania
2019 Mountain Size, Pineapple Black, Middlesborough
2019 Looking Through Drawing, Seawhite Tutors, The Atrium, Seawhite, West Sussex
2019 Peter Coker and Friends, Cobbold & Judd, The Minories, Essex
2019 Between Us, Britain China contemporary art biennial, University of Suffolk, Ipswich and Original Projects, Great Yarmouth
2019 Prospect, with Jane Frederick. Naze Tower, Essex
2019 Made in Britain, National Museum of Poland, Gdansk
2019 British Contemporary, Yantai Art Museum, China
2019 RWS Contemporary Watercolours, Bankside Gallery, London.
2018 Contemporary Sino-British Painting Biennale, Yantai Art Museum, China
2018 Brentwood Stations of the Cross, Highlights from the Collection, Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago, USA
2018 Paint North, Lady Beck Project Space, Leeds
2018 Fresh Paint, Messum's Wiltshire
2017 Anything Goes? Contemporary British Painting, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
2017 Drawing into Landscape, The Crypt, Marylebone, London
2017 Contemporary Painting: In Good Health, Menier Gallery, London
2017 Contemporary Masters from Britain, touring to Yantai Art Museum, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing, and Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China
2017 Contemporary Masters from the East of England, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
2017 RWS Contemporary Watercolours, Bankside Gallery, London.
2017 Painting and History, Exhibition and Symposium, Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2016 Slippery & Amorphous, The Bushwick International Exposition 2016, Art Helix, New York
2016 Messum's, Art Toronto, Canada
2016 The Tutors Show, The Atrium Gallery, Seawhites, West Sussex
2016 Colchester Art Society: celebrating 70 years, Firstsite, Essex
2016 Belrose Highlights, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2016 Slippery and Amorphous, The Crypt, Marylebone, London
2015 The Brentwood Stations of the Cross, SE9 Container Gallery, Eltham, London
2015 Messum's, Art Toronto, Canada
2015 Contemporary British Watercolours, Maidstone Museum and Bentliff Art Gallery, Kent
2015 The Brentwood Stations of the Cross, Brentwood Cathedral, Essex
2015 RWS Contemporary Watercolours, Bankside Gallery, London. Prizewinner
2014 Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery
2014 @PaintBritain, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk
2014 Messum's, Art Toronto, Canada
2014 East Contemporary Art, Waterfront Gallery, UCS Ipswich
2014 Easterlies, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
2014 Action: Abstract Painting, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
2013 Messum's, Art Toronto, Canada
2013 East Contemporary Art, The Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich
2012 Marmite Prize IV, Exhibition tour
2012 Messum's, Art Toronto, Canada
2012 New East Anglian Painting, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk
2012 Bacon to Rego, Abbot Hall, Kendal
2012 East Coast Influences, Messum's, London
2011 Hilton Fine Art, Bath
2011 Messum's, Art Toronto, Canada
2011 Contemporary Perspectives on Water Colour, Mall Galleries, London
2011 Sketch 2011, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
2010 Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007 Looking Forward, Agnew's, London

AWARDS

2017 Wallace Seymour Prize, Royal Watercolour Society
2015 Daler-Rowney Prize, Royal Watercolour Society
2007 Artist in Residence, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex
2006 Thomas Hoblyn and Simon Carter, RHS gold medal, show garden at Hampton Court
2005 Escalator Visual Arts, Arts Council England East and Commissions East
2005 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England East

CURATING

2021 Life with Art: Benton End and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, with Mel King, Firstsite, Essex
2019 Peter Coker RA: Force of Nature, with Mel King, The Minories, Essex
2015 Contemporary British Watercolours, Maidstone Museum and Bentliff Art Gallery, Kent
2015 The Brentwood Stations of the Cross, Brentwood Cathedral, Essex
2014 @PaintBritain, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk
2012 New East Anglian Painting, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk

COLLECTIONS

Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria
Art for Loan, Essex County Libraries
Astro Lighting, Harlow, Essex
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Colchester Art Society permanent collection
Copleston High School, Ipswich, Suffolk
East Contemporary Art, University Campus Suffolk
Epping Forest District Museum
Falmouth Art Gallery
Ipswich Borough Council
Jiangsu Arts and Crafts Museum, China
Jiangsu Museum of Art, China
King Edward VI School, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Komechak Art Gallery, Benedictine University, Chicago, USA
Madison Museum of Fine Arts, Georgia, USA
New Hall School, Chelmsford, Essex
Paintings in Hospitals
Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting
Rugby Museum and Art Gallery
Salthouse Harbour Hotel, Ipswich, Suffolk
SCILS Gallery, Suffolk County Libraries
St. Edmundsbury Borough Council
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China
University of Essex
Yale Centre for British Art, USA
Yantai Art Museum, China