Artworks

Simon Linington

Linington’s practice explores, through a range of media, ideas of personal and collective memory and the artists’ role within and without society. In his early career, much of his work stemmed from performative actions, setting himself Sisyphean tasks - such as dragging heavy sheet steel up the many stairs to his studio, rolling a ball of clay equal to his own weight between his studio and the exhibition space, or walking round and round a column of clay for hours and days, wearing his own impression into it - allowing him to detach his mind from the making process in an effort to be a purer conduit of the artistic experience.