Simon Linington was born in 1983 on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. His artistic creations revolve around specific locations, collecting local materials and narratives to present personal analysis, observation, and perception of a place through rich media and abstract language.
As the first resident artist at the Sixi Museum, Linington visited the local mountains, rivers, and forests of Nanjing. Through surveying and researching, collecting, sorting, grinding and filtering, he reworked natural materials such as gravel and sand into raw materials for his artworks, and gained a deeper understanding of Nanjing’s unique landscape through his firsthand geological research methods.
The childhood memories on Isle of Wight inspired Linington: the different colors of the sandstone on the cliffs near Alum Bay, the layered landscapes formed when the cliffs crumbled due to erosion, the typical tourist souvenir of a small glass bottle filled with layered sand... Sandstone, dust, vegetation, rock formations, and many fragments of the physical environment are not only the debris of nature, but also carriers of the footprints of local history and humanity, another objective truth that truly reflects the local cultural landscape, and is an inseparable part of the urban fabric.