Simon Raven, Olympic Manet, Photograph. Photo: Simon Raven

Simon Raven

Resident Artist
STUDIO B3
www.nevarnomis.com

Simon’s work in performance and other media is informed by a history of mental illness (acute depression & hypomania) and treatment. He is interested in the history and ongoing effects of advances in medicine, and in traversing the boundary of what constitutes ‘normal’ or constructive behaviour. Simon try’s to make his work inclusive, and to leaven the difficulty of speaking about mental illness with dark humour. In recent performances he has established ‘pop up’ medical practices, informed by shamanic and charlatan activities through the ages, offering a range of dubious healing services to audiences.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2011
‘White Raven’ – Deda, Derby.
‘Stand Up, Speak Up’ – Fabrika, Leicester.
‘Circuit’ – Leicester De Montfort.

2010
‘Caberet Melancholique’ – St Marks Hall, London.
‘One Finch Live Art Weekender’ – Chameleon, Nottingham.
‘Dada Festival’ – Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.
‘Posthumous Progress’ – Wollaton Hall, Nottingham.
‘Ruskin Live’ – Modern Art Oxford.
‘Wunderkammer’ – Hopkinsons, Nottingham.
‘The Carbunchitect’ – The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
‘Annexinema’ – 1 Thoresby St, Nottingham.
‘Sideshow’ – Chameleon Cafe, Nottingham.
‘Parlour Ecole Loqueteuse’ – The Ragged School Museum, London.
‘Sounding Off’ – Vitrine Gallery, Bermondsey Square, London.
‘A Stranger’s Window’ – Nottingham Castle/MOOT Gallery
‘Satellite’ – Nottingham Contemporary.
‘BOOM’ – BOX Gallery, Nottingham.
‘The Collectors’ – The Collection Museum, Lincoln.