Simon Fell

A large part of my job as an artist is to act as a translator for the unconscious mind. Thus my work takes the form of structures, still lives, vehicles, figures and hands. We have a rapidly changing relationship to the use of our hands and craft or ‘tacit’ (bodily know-how) skills in everyday life and work. Whatever skills that I use in handling the material and understanding how it works may show in the finished item but the work also has other content which is likely to overshadow the display of dexterity – both things are going on at the same time, and this is one of the qualities that make the work so engaging to produce. Brighton