About

Across screen print, sculpture and film, Simmonds is interested in the distance between an image and the thing it appears to describe. Repetition, reproduction and changes of scale allow familiar forms to become less certain. The equipment and physical conditions of production are not hidden; misregistration, grain, pressure, duration and the resistance of materials remain active parts of the work.

The practice moves between editioned works, singular objects and time-based pieces. Film may operate as a work in its own right or sit beside an object as context, process and another way of looking. Rather than resolving these forms into a single explanation, the work holds them together as partial views: evidence of an action, a construction, or something seen and then remembered differently.