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Inception, 46 Gt Titchfield Street
Press Release
Inception is a term often referred to as the beginning. This group exhibition marks the inception of an artistic and cultural exchange, which is a new initiative to promote emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Britain and China. The curator has an interesting outlook on the complexity of the global environment. The current time presents ample opportunity to explore in the creative and cultural industries.
Right now is the golden age of our time to explore, collaborate and have fun. Art forms an important element in our modern society. The dialogue between different cultures and artistic backgrounds can often inspire greater creative process along the way. That is the message we intend to share with the wider global community.
At this exhibtion, a selected group of contemporary artissts from China and Britain will share their artistic views with the audience.
46 GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, W1W 7QA. The nearest tube station is Oxford Circus.
Private View:
Live music by Cristian Anton and Lani Cucliciu
7.30pm on Friday 4th November
Pulse Miami Beach
I am delighted to be exhibiting at Pulse Miami Beach, from 1-4 December 2016 with New Art Projects in a Conversations booth with Hedley Roberts.
More information can be found here on the Pulse Miami website.

The Tower
Patinated bronze, 18W X 42H X 18D CM, 2016
Too Fast To Think at the Supreme Court of the UK
Tuesday 18 October – “Too Fast To Think” Book Launch at the Supreme Court UK, London
It was great exhibiting some of my sculptures at this event for the book launch of Too Fast To Think by Chris Lewis.
Photographs courtesy, © Licensed to simonjacobs.com. 18.10.16 London, UK.Chris Lewis, Too Fast to Think book launch at The Supreme Court, London, UK.FREE PRESS, EDITORIAL AND PR USAGE.Photo credit: Simon Jacobs
Photographs courtesy, © Licensed to simonjacobs.com. 18.10.16 London, UK.Chris Lewis, Too Fast to Think book launch at The Supreme Court, London, UK.FREE PRESS, EDITORIAL AND PR USAGE.Photo credit: Simon Jacobs

The Towering Crane
‘The Towering Crane’, Patinated bronze, 110H X 55W X 50D CM, 2016
The Towering Crane is a new bronze over a metre high which seemingly balances in a state of peril, it looks as if it could have been on the moon for thousands of years slowly melting into the ground. The blue, green and black patina emphasises and highlights various areas. Its scale is emphasised by the new purple patinated bronze bi-plane Jumbo.
Jumbo
Luna Buggy
The Picton Art Prize Catalogue
The Picton Art Prize Catalogue featuring ‘Celestial’ cast by London Bronze Casting
Catalogue designed by Everything In Between (www.e-i-b.com)
96% Visible
Celestial – Picton Art Prize Unveiling Ceremony
Photographs from The Picton Art Prize Unveiling, 27 April 2016 of ‘Celestial’, Patinated bronze, 250 X 200 X 120CM, 2016
Photos courtesy of Jasper Fry.
Cast at London Bronze Casting
State Magazine Feature
February’s Most Talked About Exhibitions
Great being included in Londonist’s recent reviews of February’s most talked about exhibitions:
‘Secret Agents And Protests: February’s Most Talked About Art Exhibitions’,
Alex J Wood: Lift Off at New Art Projects
The first exhibition we’ve seen at this space features Alex Wood’s sculptures based around flight. There’s some fun and surreal works as a space shuttle is weighed down by a bronze parachute and a zeppelin hangs off Big Ben. Until 19 March, free.
Tabish Khan at the Londonist, (http://londonist.com/2016/02/february-s-most-talked-about-art-exhibitions)
Watercolours
Featured Artist in State Magazine
Alex J Wood: Lift Off! at New Art Projects
My forthcoming Solo Exhibition ‘Alex J Wood: Lift Off!’ at New Art Projects is opening soon, on Thursday 14 January 2016 running until 19 March 2016.
The Tower
The Tower, Patinated bronze, 42H X 18D X 18W CM, 2015
Picton Art Prize & Rockets in Venice Series
I just heard I’ve been Shortlisted for The Picton Art Prize whilst In Venice looking at the Biennale
Below are images of the Newspaper Rockets I’ve been creating installed throughout Venice.
Old Pecuilar
The Plume and Antares
The Glidemobile (The Henry Moore Plinth Prize)
Antares
The Plume
Home Bodies
Homebodies
Artists Paul Coombs, Bex Massey and Alex Wood come together in Necole Schmitz’s first curatorial project, Home Bodies. The exhibition reflects on the impact domestic spaces have on memory, the way one exists in these spaces as well as the impact future events have on the importance placed on these recollections. As Freud states in The Uncanny:
Our childhood memories show us our earliest years not as they were but as they appeared at the later periods when the memories were aroused…And a number of motives, with no concern for historical accuracy, had a part in forming them, as well as in the selection of the memories themselves. (p. 322)
The artists will take this presupposition as a starting point to create works specific to the iconic Balfron Tower, examining the truth of Freud’s conjecture by contemplating how memories are formed and whether these personal mythologies and stories are underpinned by images of the domestic spaces in which they occurred. The artists will also take into consideration Balfron’s history as part of the high rise solution to the post-war housing crisis in light of its recent transformation from a private to a public cultural space.
ET Phone Home
‘ET Phone Home’
Bronze and silvered card
2014
Private collection USA
Created whilst Artist in Residence at Camberwell College of Arts
Chinese Views
Taking Off!

Tokyo, Fairground Sculpture – Chairoplane
R101: Maiden Flight
Slick (A Sandcast Bronze)
Slick (Definition: Smooth, Glossy & Slippery like Ice).
A 15kg bronze, polished complete with the ball bearing sized droplets from when it was poured represents the Oil we all use… Its appearance is suggestive of an oil slick on water, yet juxtaposed against the bronze is a low-fi model I created of the monumental Titanic. Perched precariously on top the card model crashes into the slick bronze slab creating a contrast of materials, suggesting something may happen at any moment…