About

Simone Bizzell-Browning lives and works in West Wales. Simone graduated in 2012 with a first class degree in Fine Art Sculpture and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Simones’ art practice is broadly sculptural, but not allied to any particular medium, she works in a diverse variety of media from cast metal to papier-mâché and photography and although the medium she works in is not fixed, the function of myth and fairy tales is a recurrent theme.

“The fairy stories we were told as children inform the stories, we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and inform the ways in which we both collectively, and as individuals, interpret the world we inhabit. In short, we create our own personal mythologies, and it is this rich and fertile territory that I seek to explore in my work.”

The process of casting was fundamental to Simone’s initial practice and has remained a continuing passion. The idea that one material can be transformed into another, altering both its materiality and meaning, provides her with a constant source of excitement and fascination. That cloth or lace can become iron, or a swan’s feather can become bronze, transforms the object , removes the familiarity and reveals the hidden layers of meaning that we (often unconsciously) attribute to the everyday objects that make up our world. This investigation into the cultural and mythological significance that we impose upon the objects that make up the fabric of our world, underpins her work. This enduring influence is a lasting legacy of a B.A. in Social Anthropology undertaken in her early twenties, which ignited an ongoing fascination, with the subject of meaning-making.