Simon Gaiger ARBS

Simon’s sculptures are made from wood, metal and the materials that he finds around him. They are descriptions of the elements, forces and patterns within the landscape, natural and manmade, a synthesis of where these meet, clash or unify. Laid hedges, sea defences, harbours, old boundaries, disused railway lines. Places where the memory of man is recorded in nature influence him, as do man’s engineered devices that steer or harness the elemental forces. Where nature bends to man’s hand for a moment then turns and moves on. 

References also come from his childhood in Africa and the South Pacific.

Many pieces have moveable parts or suggest a use, inviting the viewer to respond by re-arranging, touching or changing the form. Obviously tactile elements are either offered up or shielded. Colour is used simply, either to accentuate the play of light or as distinct colours to emphasize particular aspects.

Simon’s work is shown in galleries across the UK and Europe.

Biography

1965: Born Banbury, UK. Moves to Uganda. From there spends childhood in Sudan,  Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Falkland Islands and Cornwall. Educated in various schools in the UK and abroad.

1983-1984:  Works as a shepherd and shipwrights assistant in the Falkland Islands

1984-1985: West Surrey College of Art & Design

1987-1989: Merrist Wood Agricultural College, trains in landscape construction.

1989-1994: Sets up landscape design business, Designing and constructing commercial and domestic landscapes and gardens in Dorset and London.
Also making sculpture and furniture.

1994: Decides to concentrate solely on making sculpture and furniture.
Exhibits widely in the UK and Europe. Makes work for private and public commissions.

 2003: Move to Carmarthenshire, Wales.

2008: Elected to membership of the Royal British Society of Sculptors