Simon Hitchens

Simon Hitchens graduated in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 1990, and his work has been exhibited around the world since then. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, undertaking private commissions and numerous large scale public commissions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1998, is the winner of the 2003 Millfield School Sculpture Competition and was short listed for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize in 2004. He is the fourth generation of artists in his family.

Stone is the material backbone to his creative explorations and the conceptual focus in his sculptures. Over the years his physical involvement with stone has become increasingly minimal:

“I aim to make work that operates on the edge of perception, somewhere between the physical and the metaphysical, a kind of exploration of the peripheral. Work that is both about presence and absence.”