selected exhibitions
“really beautiful work… wonderful honesty and vulnerability, which comes from a genuine creative process”
Emma Helbrough, author and editor
“stunning and generous work… I want it everywhere”
Joanna King, Curator
“Although the challenging practice of abstract painting has been with us for the best part of 100 years now, new work of great individuality and significance is still being produced, and Simon M Smith is, in my view, one of the very best practitioners of his generation. His work is invariably small in scale, using torn paper, drawing materials and soft colour washes to create gentle meditative texts. They are calming, possessing what some might call a ‘oneness’ or an ‘isness’, for they sit quietly and comfortably in their space and offer themselves up as objects of contemplation, leaving us to make our response and decide upon their meaning”
John Gilboy, Orange Street Gallery
"...a Picasso of his time..."
Adriana de Barros, breathewords.com
ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 7 - 21 August 2010
summer show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 25 May – 28 August 2010
3rd annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, 27 - 28 Cork Street, London 5 - 13 August 2010
FRINGEMK 2010, 15 July - 1 September 2010 finalist
Cambridge Art Fair, Chilford Hall, Cambridgeshire, 25 - 27 June 2010
spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 6 March - 29 May 2010
spring show, Burnham Grapevine Gallery, Burnham Market, Norfolk 6 February – 17 April 2010
Debt Doctors Foundation/Sotheby's Fashion, Arts and Culture Auction, Great Hall of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London 4 December 2009
ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 12 - 22 November 2009
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 22 - 25 October 2009 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
autumn show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 2 September – 28 November 2009
ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 1 - 15 August 2009
summer show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 2 June – 29 August 2009
2nd annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London 6 - 15 August 2009
spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 3 March - 30 May 2009
mixed exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture, The Art Stable, Child Okeford, Dorset 14 March - 4 April 2009
christmas show, Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely 19 November -December 20 2008
christmas exhibitions, Grapevine Contemporary Arts, Norwich and Burnham Market 30 November - 24 December 2008
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 23 - 26 October 2008 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
ING discerning eye exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London 13 - 23 November 2008
ludlow summer exhibition, Ludlow College, Ludlow, Shropshire 31 July – 15 August 2008
1st annual Cork Street Charity Open Art Exhibition, Cork Street Gallery, London 31 July – 9 August 2008
summer exhibition, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset 12 July - 6 September 2008
summer exhibition 08: New work by gallery artists, Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale July - August 2008
suffolk showcase, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, 14 June - 19 July 2008
royal society of Birmingham artists, RSBA Gallery, Birmingham, 29 May – 5 July 2008
simon m smith & alan flood, two-man show, Orange Street Gallery, Uppingham, 19 April – 17 May 2008
spring show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 19 February - 24 May 2008
new year, new work, Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
7 February - 6 March 2008
black is back, Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames, Berkshire
12 December 2007 - 25 February 2008
christmas show, Horace Blue, Norwich 1 - 24 December 2007
winter show, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London 30 October 2007 - 26 January 2008
affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London 18 - 21 October 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
grand designs live, stand E3, NEC Birmingham 5 - 7 October 2007
suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 29 June – 28 July 2007
works on paper Digby Gallery, Mercury Theatre Colchester 19 June – 19 July 2007 solo show
cambridgeshire art fair Chilford Hall, Linton 8 – 10 June 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
summer show Sheridan Russell Gallery, 16 Crawford Street, London, W1H 1BS 29 May – 29 September 2007
affordable art fair Bristol, 17 – 20 May 2007 [with Sheridan Russell Gallery]
east – west artists culture club Group exhibition, Light Gallery, London 5 – 10 December 2006
liberte d’expression:
Barclays Global Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London 2 – 8 November 2006
Candid Arts Trust, Islington 9 – 12 November 2006
suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 8 July – 5 August 2006
FAB ART 05 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 25 Nov - 2 December 2005
'the scent of magnolia’ The Wall Gallery Ely 30 October – 24 November 2005 solo show
a fine line Euroart Gallery, Tottenham, London 9 - 20 November 2004
on the wall Olympia Grand Hall, London 29 September - 3 October 2004
'approaching silence' The Wall Gallery Ely Cambridgeshire 1 - 27 February 2004 solo show
FAB ART 03 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 28 Nov - 5 December 2003 silver prize winner
Eastern Open 2003 King's Lynn March - May 2003
Eastern Open 2002 King's Lynn March - May 2002
Visual Haiku Peterborough Art House 8 June - 7 July 2001
Eastern Open 2001 King's Lynn March - May 2001
Kettle's Yard Open Cambridge 1 - 30 July 2000
Eastern Open 2000 King's Lynn March - May 2000
Cheltenham Open Drawing 1999:
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels
Karl Hofer Gallery, Berlin
European Illustration Collection, Humberside University
Eastern Open 1999 King's Lynn March - May 1999
Drawings for All '96:
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Stamford Arts Centre
Chelmsford Art Gallery
King of Hearts, Norwich
De Montfort University, Lincoln