Svar Simpson
Visual Artist, Sculptor, Public Art, Trans-Activist
TRANS-ANGEL (2022) Crossbones Cemetery, London SE1 1RQ cement fondue on a steel and scaffold frame, height 200cm. A film by Conrad Armstrong
Svar Simpson
Svar Simpson is a visual artist with a central practice in sculpture, and also working in performance, film and new technology. The pervading theme running through the work is transmutation. His figurative sculptures resulting from experience of modelling/casting techniques and bronze foundry skills, have earned him recognition and prizes from the Royal Academy (London) and the Manchester Academy.
London-based teaching in a Further Education college and working as a lead artist within the realms of public arts and urban regeneration have
also played a significant role in his professional development.
He has several years of transgender experience and trans activism. The transgender body and its spatial extension and agency are acknowledged as an integral contribution to the mechanics of mixed- media object-based production; and to the understanding of the three- dimensional form as a language transfiguring space and sharing our atmosphere.
"This is the unfathomable lacuna created by the binaric
banalities of a reproductive sex culture, representing the splitting imposition of the binary gender
classification." - Svar Simpson
PINK THING (2000)
Dyed cotton, meathook, chain SAGE(2000)|
Plaster of Paris, roedeer skull, wooden staff, height 80cm
SMALL CYBORG (2001) heculite plaster, plaster cast of trans genitalia, sheep horn, acrylic paint, height 20cm
CYBERBITCH (2000) herculite plaster, plaster cast of trans genitalia, deer antlers,oil paint, height 50cm
"The cyborg, distinct from conventional value judgements/expectations, resists
permanence or absolute definition." - Svar Simpson
VIENNA HORN (2000) latex, deer antler, herculite plaster. height 24cm
WALKING AND FADING (2003) chicken wire, wax, oil paint
HAND GUN NAJA (1997)Bronze,
height 43cm
DICKNOSE 2(04) sheep skull, modellled plaster of paris, height 32cm
"Statues are spared human suffering: even when subjected to the violence of our own
fears and desires for the body, they are breakable yet unwoundable bodies" - Svar Simpson
GREATORIX 2(04) cast herculite body,
ram skull, bronze powder surface, height 110cm
"I include the animals and
machines we choose as pets
and prosthetics, as contributors to the obsessive human desire
to accessorise the pluralities of our extended selves." - Svar Simpson
"The TransSexual is gate-crasher to the question of sexual difference" - Svar Simpson
PISSER-PACKER WORKSHOP - Celebrating the Cyborg, Vienna, 2004
BODY OF EVIDENCE for BRANDON, Special London web edition, and 3-screen exterior projection (2000) - collaboration with Shu Lea Cheang
MINITURE MODELS and my character SPIDER CUNT BOY and COSTUME (1998) mixed-medial
Photography by Del LaGrace Volcano
Svar Simpson
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