Simon Whitehead is a movement artist living with his family in Abercych, rural west Wales. His practice is improvisatory, in response to the circumstances he finds himself in he makes work that moves in correspondence with land, materials and beings. He begins with, and re-turns to the motile materiality of the body and its agency amongst an assemblage of other forces, flows and matter. He is a maker that moves.
Simon has hosted Locator since 1993, an ongoing experimental workshop researching ecological ideas through movement practice, situated in Tycanol, an ancient sessile oak woodland in Pembrokeshire. He is currently exploring what posthumanist thinking means in relation to expanded ecologies of touch. soft matter is part of this process of research-creation, the artist book Stitching soft matter will be launched in January 2023.
He is also a Craniosacral therapist.
Since 1994 he has collaborated with Melbourne based sound artist Barnaby Oliver, a sample of their work is archived here: Untitled States
