Red Hot Haystacks at Od Arts Festival 2025 – Thinking in Circles

23-25 MAY 2025 Coker Court, East Coker
Od Arts Festival 2025 –  Thinking in Circles

Very excited to be making a new version of Red Hot Haystacks for Od Arts Festival 2025 – Thinking in Circles. Using a combination of black light and wild meadow grass, Red Hot Haystacks explores ideas around the unseen environmental impact of human activity through a story of nuclear testing in the 1960s. High levels of radiation were reported on the coasts each side of the Pentland Firth that separates mainland Scotland from the Orkney archipelago. The seas proved too treacherous to complete any survey, but later, soil particles from haystacks contaminated by atmospheric nuclear testing, were described geologists as Red Hot.

The Flatlands screening at SLUICE Film Festival, Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland.

 

 

 

I am delighted that ‘The Flatlands’ (film only) has been selected for the inaugural SLUICE Film Festival.  🌍🎬 Worlds built, stories reimagined.

The Sluice Film Festival launches in May 2025 in Seyðisfjörður, east Iceland, as part of the Sluice Expo. Set in the Herðubíó cinema — the only one in the region — SLUICE have partnered with LungA School to screen an international programme of artist-led film under the theme World Building.

(vessel (sherd)), 2025

Image: (Vessel (sherd)) 2025 Ceramic sherds (animal shaped rhytons) wine, iron nails, rosemary, nail clippings and hair. (1 of 6)

This new series of work has been realised through research at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), museum stores and the online collection. As part of the Dynamic Collections programme, I worked with communities to investigate the collection through a series of workshops, with a focus on ceramic vessels used predominantly for food and drink. Participants made over 100 vessels ranging from black burnished-ware bowls to Bellarmine jugs.

This work presents ceramic sherds that were made as test pieces for the workshops. Each sherd is housed in a glass jar and accompanied by ingredients relating to the selected ceramic artifact.

This work can be seen as part of  Food: beyond the plate  exhibition at RAMM, Exeter

25 March 2025 – 27 July 2025

Commissioned by Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter City Council, 2024, as part of the Dynamic Collections programme funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

 

 

Landslip 2025

 

Landslip 2025 – Digital Collage
Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) Exeter
(Courtyard core wall)

25 March 2025 – 27 July 2025

The artist Simon Lee Dicker describes this new work as, ‘a love letter to a small stretch of Dorset coastline’ and thinks of it as a ‘sketchbook’ to test ideas. The collage of photography, film and animation capture an eroding landscape alongside a sea that is in continuous flux. Dicker says, “The cliffs crumble and slide, iron-rich streams cascade over soft blue clay before discharging on to the stony beach”.

The title Landslip refers to both the process of material transformation from a solid to a liquid state as well as the raw material of liquid clay, called ‘slip’. Dicker’s artistic practice includes ceramics: his Dynamic Collections project commission is on display in the exhibition Food: beyond the plate 

 

 

Friendly Society of Artistic Labourers 2025

14 March 2025 6-9pm  BOOK TICKETS (FREE)

The Hidden Side of the Museum – A Night of Art, Performance & Discovery

Step into a world of mystery, creativity, and hidden narratives at The Hidden Side of the Museum, a one-night-only multi-disciplinary exhibition and performance event hosted by the Friendly Society of Artistic Labourers (FSAL). Join us on Friday, March 14th, from 6 PM to 9 PM at Dorset Museum, where the boundaries between history and contemporary art dissolve, revealing unseen stories waiting to be discovered.

This immersive experience brings together a dynamic group of artists and performers from Weymouth College, who will transform the museum’s galleries into a stage for artistic exploration. Through photography, installation, live performance, and interactive works, The Hidden Side of the Museum will invite visitors to engage with the museum’s collection in unexpected ways, uncovering new perspectives on the past and present.

As you move through the museum, prepare to encounter live performances that weave together history and modern storytelling, thought-provoking artworks inspired by the museum’s artifacts, and interactive experiences that challenge the way we perceive museums and their hidden treasures. Each piece has been created in response to Dorset Museum’s rich collection, reinterpreting and reimagining the past through contemporary artistic practice.

Whether you are an art enthusiast, a history lover, or simply curious about what happens when creativity meets heritage, The Hidden SIde of the Museum promises an evening of intrigue, inspiration, and unforgettable moments. This is not a traditional exhibition—it’s an experience, where the museum itself becomes a living, breathing artwork.

Expect the unexpected, follow the unseen, and uncover the hidden.

This event is free and open to all—don’t miss your chance to witness this extraordinary fusion of art and history. Join us on March 14th at Dorset Museum and discover what’s been hiding in plain sight!

The Cornwall Workshop 2024 with Mike Nelson

I am delighted to have been selected for this years Cornwall Workshop led by the one and only Mike Nelson (and Teresa Gleadowe)

The Cornwall Workshop is a week-long intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers based in Cornwall and the South West, organised by CAST and hosted at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula.

Other participants incude Jessie Blindell, Harriet Bowman, John Wedgwood Clarke, Amy Dickson, Charlie Duck, Tom Kaniok, Jo Lathwood, Donna Mitchell, Amy Morgan, Andy Parker, Maya Ronchetti, Tom Skinner and Sam Trenerry.

Dry Humping

In Spring ’23 Sadie Hennessy put an Open Call out inviting artists to make work in the style of her work for a ‘solo’ show called Dry Humping*. I’m delighted to be one of the 40 artists selected to take part in Sadie’s ‘solo’ show.

A Weekend at Hotel Palenque

A pile of tyre's on concrete infront of a field and blue sky

Sat 1 July 2023 (11am-6pm) & Sun 2 July 2023 (11am-5pm) FREE ENTRY
ARNOLFINI
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

Arnolfini invites Somerset-based artist-led organisation OSR Projects to take over our theatre space. With Andy Parker, Sam Jukes and Simon Lee Dicker.

In 1969 artists Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt and art dealer Virginia Dwan left the ‘art-world’ for the “Western deserts and lush jungles of Mexico”1 staying at the dilapidated Hotel Palenque. In 1971 Smithson presented Hotel Palenque as a slideshow lecture to architecture students from the University of Utah, exploring ideas of entropy and de-architecturalisation, in a style accurately described by curator Neville Wakefield as ‘more stoner than statesman’. This work still resonates 50 years on and has been represented in galleries and publications internationally.

OSR Projects will use Smithson’s Hotel Palenque as a conceptual back drop for a weekend event taking place at Arnolfini. Exploring contemporary ideas of entropy, de-architecturalisation and edgelands in the rural landscape the participating artists pay attention to what is airbrushed out of a collective imagination of the rural and focus on what lies in the peripheral vision. In addition, the work speaks to the traces of the exhibition of Robert Smithson at Arnolfini in 1977, which included films presented in the same theatre space as OSR will occupy.

OSR Projects: A weekend at Hotel Palenque

1  Yucatan is Elsewhere – On Robert Smithson’s Hotel Palenque. Neville Wakefield

Territory expo 10 -13 November 2022

Territory refers to possession, conflict and control, it speaks of history and consequences. Territory is managed space; marked for development or protected or exploited for raw materials, used to displace or contain it is socially constructed. The production of Territory is the institutionalisation of space to achieve control. Territory manifests a slow transgenerational violence.  SLUICE


SLUICE and PADA are bringing together an interdisciplinary selection of artist and curator-led projects to explore the impact and interconnections of the ecological, environmental and political consequences of this violence.

OSR Projects artists Andy Parker and Simon Lee Dicker will be in residence in Lisbon from the 1 November making new work that will be exhibited in conjunction with Lisbon Art Weekend.

Simon Lee Dicker – ‘see-an-enemy’ work in progres

Andy Parker – ‘Home’, work in progress

More Than Ponies presents Dappled Light, 12 & 13 March 2022

mural

I’m delighted to be showing new work as part of Dappled Light Exhibition in the New Forest organised by More Than Ponies.

Dappled Light is an exhibition that brings together diverse contemporary artists within the context of the Woodgreen Village Hall and its striking figurative murals, originally painted in the 1930s. The artists use an array of materials and mediums, including sculptures, ceramics, textiles, hair, drawings and videos, bringing in fresh perspectives to this now historic but still ‘modern’ context. The artists’ imagery and ideas are kaleidoscopic, like the dappled light of the New Forest. Each work brings with it a new way of thinking and seeing, creating unexpected connections between the village hall, the New Forest and the world beyond.

Exhibiting artists are: Rachael Champion, Benjamin Deakin, Simon Lee Dicker, Alexa de Ferranti, Laura Eldret, Paul Finnegan, Louise Hall, Annabel Pettigrew, Paul Vivian and urban design/ ex-artist Jennie Savage.

Woodgreen Village Hall, New Forest, SP6 2AJ
Saturday 12 March 10am – 6pm
Sunday 13 March 10am – 4pm

Friendly Society of Artistic Labourers

Please join us for and evening of exhibitions, performance, and music, produced by the ‘Friendly society of artistic labourers’, led by Simon Lee Dicker. It’s the first time students of Weymouth College have come together to unite with the same passion, exploring collective working and the value of art.

A parade of students will start the event with march from the Maumbury Rings in Dorchester at 3:30pm, through South Street , finishing at Shire Hall. An exhibition and special events will take place at Shire hall from 6:30 – 9:00pm, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, including performance and installations taking place in the cell and court house.

Tickets are £5pp- All of the proceedings are going towards the Shire hall charity trust. Refreshments available.

The exhibition will continue until the 3rd April 2020.
Monday – Saturday 10:00am to 5:00pm (normal entry price to Shire Hall)

BOOKING for Friday 5 March

 

 

Mycorrhiza and Extancy – AMP Gallery – London

 17 – 24 January 2020
PV Frid17 jan (6.30-9pm)

AMP Gallery
1 Acorn Parade
SE15 2TZ

Exhibiting Artists:

Bettina Weiß/ Jaime Jackson/ Simon lee dicker/ Stephen Harwood/ Sally Payen/
Anne Carnein/ Ruth Philo/ Eleanor Morgan/ Andrew Seto/ Alistair Gentry

 

Mycorrhiza is here employed as a framework to explore the ecosystems and survival strategies within creative and organisational spheres.

This exhibition explores the connective filaments that interweave creative networks by exploring sex, hibernation, deep time and breakdown. Mycorrhiza and Extancy draw parallels between ecology and politics, the many as one, the wood-wide-web, systems of decomposition and recycling. Mycelium is used to detoxify polluted industrial spaces as it has the ability to flourish in uninhabitable environments. The non-commercial arts in this country similarly operate in – and are shaped by -– a hostile environment, this exhibition and the current issue of the Sluice magazine is a celebration of the sectors continued extancy.

a-n Artist Bursary 2019

I am delighted to be one of the lucky artists to receive one of the 2019 a-n bursaries. The award  will enable me to make the most of an invite to take part in an exhibition at Villa Renata (Basil, Switzerland) supporting a short residency focused on developing my artistic practice through mentoring, critical support and building networks with international arts organisations.

To the Fore /// 5-7 April 2019

I’m really pleased to have been invited to show 3 drawings as part To The Fore, a group exhibition celebrating four years since the brilliant MOUNT landed in Frome, Somerset. This birthday exhibition will run for one weekend only, come along to the preview event on Friday 5th April 6-8pm, and pop in on Saturday and Sunday 6th & 7th April 10am-3pm. In the studio above Mount, Silk Mill West, Saxonvale, Frome, BA11 1PT.

find out more here

 

 

Odyssean: Topographies at Hestercombe Gallery

Odyssean: Topographies  – 18 November 2017 to 25 February 2018
Natasha Rosling – Alexander Stevenson – Alistair Grant – Simon Lee Dicker
Exhibition open 11am – 4pm daily
Hestercombe Gallery, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton TA2 8LG

Over two years, Natasha Rosling, Alexander Stevenson, Alistair Grant and Simon Lee Dicker undertook a series of artist residencies across the Orkney Isles. From different locations – a remote bothy, a lighthouse, a beachside golf course and a burial chamber – each artist developed distinctive connections with the archipelago, its human stories, and its physical geography.Odyssean: Topographies draws together common threads in their practices: questions around mapping, invisible and imagined spaces, and remoteness, both physical and emotional. Aptly sited in the galleries and gardens of Hestercombe, the exhibition responds experimentally to a layered landscape at once historic and contemporary, highly managed and equally wild.Odyssean: Topographies is supported by Arts Council England and Gane Trust.
Find out more: odysseanproject.co.uk