Simon Ringe's creative practice is concerned with issues of subjectivity and explores the possibilities of phenomenological and somatic experience.

 

Ringe is at the latter stage (writing-up) of a practice-led PhD, at Leeds Beckett University, under the working title Ma – the space in-between. His research is concerned with interrogating and exploring the void, subjectively employing a without/within perspective and strategy that navigates the unknown, from a position of 'not knowing'. He has drawn on freediving and butoh training alongside a range of theoretical positions which include, amongst others, Bollnow, Levinas and Whitehead, all of which have informed and shaped his practice. He creates theoretically ambiguous works, which bilaterally explore the difficulty of communicating internal experience to an external audience. His non-hierarchical practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, film, photography and performance.

 

Simon Ringe (b.1965) studied Fine Art at Maidstone College or Art, (1985-88) and the Royal College of Art, (1988-90), and has been engaged in numerous roles from lecturer, Dept Head and programme leader at both undergraduate and post-grad levels in educational institutions including Coventry University, Humberside Polytechnic, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, the University of Lincoln, the University of Hertfordshire, Robert Gordon University (Dundee) and is presently a senior lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University.

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Solo Exhibitions

2022      Without Within, Turntable Gallery, Grimsby

1998      Tankroom, EICH Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull  

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Group Exhibitions

2014       Pool, externally screened film as part of Light Night Leeds 

2013       Chalk Walk, An Arrangement in White, XO Gallery, Leeds 

2010       Film work screened as part of MÉLANGE, within Light Night Leeds  2010

                PEEP, Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 

2003       Degrees of Three Dimensionality: Drawing Out Digital Media, Pixel Raider, Sheffield; IMPACT 3 Joan Ferreira Gallery,                            Johannesburg, South Africa; Aberdeen City Art Gallery. 

2002       Creativity & Cognition 2002, Gallery Exhibition, Loughborough University 

1999       Kingston Art Group Show, Bankside Gallery, Manchester 

1998       Contribution of an artists book for the Bristol Art Library, New York, London 

1998       KAG Group Show, Lincoln; Hull 

1997       Export - Southern Cross University, Canberra, Australia 

1993       International Print Portfolio, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA 

1992       Print Show, The Gallery Downstairs, Burnley 

1991       Autotype Print Show, Royal College of Art, London 

1990       11th British International Print Biennale, London and Bradford 

1989       Valentine Show, Cartoon Gallery, London  

                Graduate show, Sandra Drew Gallery, Canterbury 

1988/9   Open to Print, Sunderland touring exhibition 

1988       Works by Invitation, Goldsmiths’ College Gallery, London 

1987       PMC Whatman Paper National Print Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall, London 1

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Commissions 

2006       Blyth Council commissioned two large scale core10 steel sculptures for permanent exhibition as part of the                                  Wildspace Network Art Trail, Cramlington, Blyth Valley, Northumbria 

1998       Invited and produced an artists book for the Bristol Art Library 

1989       Commissioned to produce the artwork presented as the award for ‘The Businessman of the year Award - 1989’ 

1989       Designed and produced, the original artwork for an advertising campaign celebrating 30 years of production of the                    Mini for the Rover Group

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Awards & Prizes

1991      Autotype Bursary Award 

1989      HO Hambro Bursary Award 

1988      Sandra Drew Gallery Prize at Goldsmiths' Gallery, London 

1987      PMC & Whatman Paper First Prize, London 

 

Conference Papers 

2022      Not Knowing From Within presented at, Critical Research PGR Conference, York St. John University, York; 

               Performance, Practice and Process Postgraduate Conference, Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University

2021      Making Effable the Ineffable, Research by Practice Conference call, Royal College of Arts, London

2004      Pixel Raiders, Sheffield Hallam University works shown, abstract by Ruth Maxwell, Gray’s School of Art, RGU 

2003      Mapping the Territory: towards new mediated topologies of practice co-written with Dr J. Pengelly (Gray’s School of                             Art, Dundee), for CADE IV, University of Lincoln, joint paper   

2002      Creativity & Cognition (4) Conference, Loughborough University, work exhibited as example of digitally created 3D                               possibilities. 

2001      Pushing the Envelope from 2D into 3D printmaking using Rapid PrototypingTechnology, examples of digital works in                           progress by Dr. J. Pengelly, at IMPACT 2, UIAH, Helsinki, Finland

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Publications

1999      Entry in Art & Design: 100 Years of the Royal College of Art, Prof.Christopher Frayling. 1999. Collins and Brown

               ISBN: 1855857251 

1989      Included in 11th British International Print Biennale, 1990. Bradford Art Galleries, Museums & Libraries.

               ISBN: 0946657297