Simon POOLEY
Simon Pooley was born in Cheshire, and then trained as an architect at Kingston Polytechnic. After completing his studies he worked as an architect in Sheffield in the North of England.
In 1992 he moved to Cornwall and settled at St Buryan (not far from Sheffield in Cornwall!), and has been a full-time artist since then. His work has been shown at the Rainyday Gallery and Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance.
media
Painter, draughtsman, architect
works and access
The Stour Gallery
exhibitions
NAG - many mixed exhibitions
2010: 'Celtic Winter' (mixed) The Stour Gallery, Warwickshire
Open Studios Cornwall 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2024
2016: Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, west Penwith
2018: Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance (3-24 June)
2019: Far & Wild, Hampstead Affordable Art Fair (7-12 May)
2022: Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance (4-29 Oct)
2023: Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance (6 Oct-4 Nov)
2024: Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance (24 July-5 Sept)
memberships
NSA 2009 list
references
Brittain, Sarah and Cook, Simon (2001) Behind the Canvas, 40 Artists working in West Cornwall;
Cornwall Today (Aug 2016) 'Joie de Vivre' by Alex Wade