About
Simon Kennedy works across sculpture, installation, and painting. Inspired by the visual vocabulary of scientific models and diagrams, he creates sculptural and painted surface constructions that subvert traditional empirical language. Through these abstract, poetic re-interpretations, Kennedy blends rigid structures with philosophical inquiry to reveal entirely new meanings.
Science relies on diagrams and models to make empirical data tangible, objective, and universally understood. By reinterpreting these structures, Kennedy challenges the idea that any model can perfectly capture reality. He highlights that even the most "logical" scientific diagrams are, at their core, abstractions and human constructions.
Kennedy injects human emotion, existential questioning, and ambiguity into these rigid frameworks. The "new meaning" he reveals often points to what science cannot fully measure or explain: mystery, consciousness, and the sublime.
Simon Kennedy is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, undertaking numerous residencies and creating site-specific artworks. These include “Radiation Hour” at Funkhaus, Berlin 2013. “Scream” The Icecreamists in Covent Garden, London 2011. “Naughty But Nice” at B&B Gallery in Folkestone, Kent 2007.
His recent projects include, “The Stardust Principle No. 2”, exhibited at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 as part of his ongoing series of large-scale sculptural investigations into cosmology. “Stardust Principle No. 1,The Craignish Sundial” is permanently installed at Loch Craignish in Argyll, Scotland, while “Stardust Principle No. 3: The Pointer North Star Polaris” was presented at the Winter Sculpture Park in Kent in 2023, curated by Gallery No. 32. He at present is completing the fourth work in the series, “Organicism: The Strange Attractors” to be presented in late 2026.
His work is held in permanent collections including NAEA, the Barclay-Russell Memorial Collection, the Tate Gallery Artist Publication Archive and the Yale Center for British Art.
Science relies on diagrams and models to make empirical data tangible, objective, and universally understood. By reinterpreting these structures, Kennedy challenges the idea that any model can perfectly capture reality. He highlights that even the most "logical" scientific diagrams are, at their core, abstractions and human constructions.
Kennedy injects human emotion, existential questioning, and ambiguity into these rigid frameworks. The "new meaning" he reveals often points to what science cannot fully measure or explain: mystery, consciousness, and the sublime.
Simon Kennedy is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, undertaking numerous residencies and creating site-specific artworks. These include “Radiation Hour” at Funkhaus, Berlin 2013. “Scream” The Icecreamists in Covent Garden, London 2011. “Naughty But Nice” at B&B Gallery in Folkestone, Kent 2007.
His recent projects include, “The Stardust Principle No. 2”, exhibited at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 as part of his ongoing series of large-scale sculptural investigations into cosmology. “Stardust Principle No. 1,The Craignish Sundial” is permanently installed at Loch Craignish in Argyll, Scotland, while “Stardust Principle No. 3: The Pointer North Star Polaris” was presented at the Winter Sculpture Park in Kent in 2023, curated by Gallery No. 32. He at present is completing the fourth work in the series, “Organicism: The Strange Attractors” to be presented in late 2026.
His work is held in permanent collections including NAEA, the Barclay-Russell Memorial Collection, the Tate Gallery Artist Publication Archive and the Yale Center for British Art.
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