Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Simon withers

You will find information about the artist on various Internet sites, he has been written about in several art journals including Art News February (2008). The artist has exhibited in several important UK exhibitions including the Mostyn Open. In 2006 the artist was one of 17 artists interviewed for the Jerwood/Artangel Commissions. Published articles in ‘Staple’ and Contributed articles in a book about Fairport Convention Pgs 5 & 31. ISBN 095426105-4. A member of the Nottingham Studios Consortium, a Company limited by guarantee and set up to initiate new studios for Nottingham. The Consortium has worked with David Adjay Associates (International architect) As a Drummer he has previously performed with David Longdon who later went on to work with Genesis / Dave Gregory. The artist is to be shortly represented by the Woolff Gallery, London.

I hope to think there are people out in Wiki-world that help find out and contribute information about this artist and the continuing contributions that he makes with the platform of visual arts. It is clear that one has to start somewhere, with something in finding and piecing together someone’s life…the basic facts governed by a resume is a reasonable place to start. I make no claims that Simon Withers is famous (that is not what this is about) Robert Clark had written in the mere jelly catalogue noting the artists painting practice the ‘multi-folds’. These works would be interesting to write about and to understand. Kathy Fawcett (Leicester City Gallery) in 2001 wrote a text relating the artist’s painting practice; in the essay she considers the multi-folds in relation to both the ‘informel’ (based around the formlessness and the materialism of painting) and gives consideration also to Freud’s ‘Unheimlic’ in relation to the Multi-Fold paintings. Fawcett hints also at the connection to be made between the paintings of Simon withers and the ‘uncanny’

The artist is far from just a painter of substance; the artist has demonstrated over twenty years a natural flexibility in shaping the work that he produces…the work requires piecing together.

It would be great to be able to access information easily and readily to hand…but I am not sure that is what this is about…allow material to grow and to develop…it is a form of archaeology and anthropology.