Simon Fell

I make: Oblique, figurative and associative ceramic sculpture and I run Artists Insight.

The themes in my work evolve over time and have included: Connected forms; Still-lives; Hands and the Handmade; Masculinity and its symbols; Ceramic installations; Ceramics and electric lights. I use my sculpture and drawing artworks to explore the rich complexity of being a man in the post-feminist age and being an artist in the age of multiplicity.

I draw with charcoal and related materials. Drawing is so closely allied to creative thinking in so many processes and I naturally do it all the time without necessarily making anything of it (it's a means to an end usually). Then sometimes I just do it for itself which is more problematic (What's it for? What does it mean? Why am I doing this?) but then all forms of creativity set up dilemmas and problems that demand solutions.