Exhibition 11th January – 1st February 2008
Private View Thursday 10th January 6:30 – 8:30pm

Intervention: Snow is Tim Simmons' first show with FAS and is a part of an ongoing body of work from the Intervention series', some of which can be seen at stand 3 & The Art Project Section @ The London Art Fair 16 - 20 January 2008.

For Media Enquiries, please contact:
Lu Dennis / Tel. +44 (0) 7815 424 925 / E-mail: ld@faslondon.com

For All Print sales & enquiries please contact:
Toby Clarke / Tel. +44 (0)20 7629 5116 / E-mail tc@faslondon.com

The Fine Art Society
148 New Bond Street
London W1S 2JT

Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday: 10am – 6:00pm
Saturday: 10am – 1pm

Tim Simmons will be available for press interviews & studio visits by appointment, please contact Lu Dennis.

For more information on the artist, please go to www.timsimmons.co.uk

The photography of Tim Simmons prompts us to dream, to ponder time and eternity. His works expound the spirit of the place from the mundane to the magnificent; landscapes from the back yard to the snowfield are the sets of his eerie, haunting, enigmatic photographs. Created as elaborately lit tableaux, his series of images suggest the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind the deceptively familiar locations. Recognisable yet what it leaves unsaid it is where we can start to spin meaning from our own imaginations.

However the most significant sense from the works is an overriding feeling that evokes the notion of interlude and aftermath, an uncanny time when the veil separating this world and the next is at it's thinnest, a feeling that we have just missed… or something is about the happen...

Validation of the inexplicable is an ongoing theme that runs through the Intervention series, shot at night or the time just bridging twilight, they bask in the loss of light.

In the diminishing hours of day and deep into the night the uncanny and otherworldly manifest, the narrative unfolds suggesting its eerie states of stillness. Although carefully composed and lit to dramatic affect, the images possess a naturalistic silence and the ability to manifest an extraordinary magical beauty.

Louise Clements
Curator / Quad


It would be terribly arrogant to believe that this is the pinnacle of evolution. People are fascinated by knowing whether they are alone and also fascinated by where they come from. But we don't know the answer to either of these two questions.

If we could find another place where life has started to evolve then we would know that we weren't the only people in the universe and we would then have something to compare and contrast with our own lives and maybe we would understand why life started and how we got to be where we are...



This is an extract from a BBC4 broadcast 'in out time' called "the red planet".
Colin Pillinger, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University and leader of the Beagle 2 expedition to Mars.