Simon Bacon lives and works in Wivenhoe, Essex and he graduated with an MA in Sculptural Practice from Colchester School of Art in 2013. His work is influenced by over twenty- five years as an Osteopath and four years postgraduate research in transpersonal psychology, all of which supports his expression of existential themes through the human form. His figurative work and process is shaped by a deep interest in the philosophy of mind and consciousness and typically reflects an expression and enquiry of process, and references “our becoming”. His work explores themes of existentialism, including concepts of individual existence, freedom and choice which are embodied through the narrative of the making itself. The sculptures undergo a number of stages from initial, often unmediated, modelling in clay to pieces that are ultimately cast in Bronze. Representational work is gradually deconstructed, fragmented and altered through process and making until the finished pieces become unique transformed figurative forms. For Simon, it is important that each piece is unique, as our own process of becoming is unique. The surfaces and forms of the sculptures which in some cases appears fragile, eroded and fragmented represent the conflict between our subjective reality and an outer “other” reality, the struggle of life itself and the physical and psychological effects this has on us. Simon tries to sculpt the phenomenological; the “how it feels” experience of our becoming and the lived journey.
