The Silk Mill, teachers Simone / Mark

Simone is a contemporary artist, born in London. Simone’s multimedia practice explores the intersections of memory, phenomenology and the experience of the inner landscape. ‘The mind tackles duration as a simultaneous process merging past memory and future projection within a continually unfolding present.’ Henri Bergson Having dedicated a decade to disciplines of Yoga and movement therapy, her work investigates the dichotomy of mind/body as understood by the philosophical underpinnings of yoga as an evolution of consciousness. Simone’s work deals with the workings of the inner world, reflected in natural phenomena. Through photography, video art, drawing and lithography, we travel through sheaths of the outer body to the landscape of the inner body. Moon cycles, tides, solar energies and planetary movements; these cosmic circadian wanderings are captured across experimental media techniques, culminating in what she terms ‘Light Paintings’. They are an act of observation and slowing of time, to view each fragment of the present as interdependent.