SIMPSON
"I have a cyborg identity. - There are many plurals of identity."
Svar Simpson is a London -based visual artist with a centralpractice in sculpture, also working in performance, film, new technology and urban artforms. The pervading theme running through the work focuses on transmutation. The human body is acknowledged as an integral contribution to the mechanics of an inter disciplinary production. The award-winning figurative bronzes have been exhibited nationwide, including the Royal Academy of Art (London) and the Manchester Academy, and have been sold to private collections worldwide. 2001 he got the Erotic Artist of the Year Award.
The film 'Late Date' a short film, had it's world premiere screening at the New York 'New Festival' in 1998, and UK premiere screening at the 'International Transgender Film Festival' London 1999. Recent exhibitions/events include Live Art collaboration 'Open Surgery' Toronto-Canada (August/September 2001), funded by London Arts Board, British Council, FADO - Toronto
svar@dircon.co.uk