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visit with your ears the bygone era of a victorian funfair.
simon's work is an investigation into the relationship between the voice of an object, and specific sites or architectural structures. using the mediums of sculpture and the sonic, he aims to communicate emotional, physiological and human potential. his work is design to occupy, converse and short circuit areas of our environment and behaviour through unexpected shifts in perceived normality.
"simon kennedy is a sculptor at home in the backroom of a seaside joke shop. mischievous, playful, roguish, he is an artist of the anomalous, a dedicated observer of the under current with his feet planted firmly beneath the pier. here, amongst the peculiar debris of our lives, adrift in an emotional landscape of greasy chip-forks and lost ice-creams, we find art with the kind of disreputable perfectionism we might expect from the needle on a tattoo artist's gun….. "
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