Simon Morley

Simon Morley's work presents monochromatic surface and explores painting with text as the main subject matter. The artist contemplates the relationship between text and image, ruminating in the gap or 'betweenness' of conventional things, in the space of boundaries. He seeks to bring about a fusion between visual arts such as painting, books, and other discourses, historical sources, and attempts various endeavors including book painting. In the dominant atmosphere of today's rapidly changing technology and sleek digital sensibilities including e-books, new things emerge when you sleep and wake up. Amidst these, there are stories of analog culture, old things replaced and given way to them, classics or noir films and old books, old wall advertisements, soon, in the artist's picture plane. His unique, quiet, and meditative conceptual art world is gaining recognition on the international stage, with his works being collected in many art galleries and steadily gaining popularity among collectors.