Simon Freeborough

Contemporary British Artist and Print Maker, working in London. Simon Freeborough trained in art, illustration and photography before establishing a career as a leading Creative Director in publishing.

Having worked as an Art Director and Creative Director for major publications such as the NME, Freeborough creates art that stems from high design, coupled with both an urban and abstract edge.

The legacy of Warhol looms large in his work, from the exploration of beauty in the disposable, to the delicate balance between luxury, decadence and worthlessness and finally, visual impacts of camouflage, large scale squares and iconography. Blazing the trail of the Pop Art torch into the twenty-first century, his work questions our fraught relationship with luxury and indulgence.

Far more than a simple homage to Pop Art Freeborough’s work offers a contemporary vision of Pop’s original Conceptual ideas in 21st century high definition.

Freeborough’s works have multiple detailed layers of creation and process. A perfume bottle, confectionary jar or doughnut exists first as an actual item in the studio before physical manipulation, such as smashing, after which the item is photographed. When hand worked as a silkscreen the object’s image is then experimentally layered with coloured detail and abstracted pattern. These patterns and forms originate from Freeborough’s personal experiences: walls from visited Sicilian chapels, tree bark textures discovered and even the photographed shapes of foam sliding down a windscreen at the car wash are manipulated and incorporated in multiple layers within the works.

This results in works which are at once is bold and immediate, but filled with delicate detail to be discovered.

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Simon Freeborough

Simon Freeborough - Pure Transparency

Simon Freeborough - Iris

Simon Freeborough - Oreo

Simon Freeborough - Cathexis

Simon Freeborough - Ardour

Simon Freeborough - Fervour

Simon Freeborough x Mark Petty - Revelry (Black)

Simon Freeborough x Mark Petty - Revelry (White)

Simon Freeborough - VIHARA

Simon Freeborough - UNREQUITED - PINK - DIAMOND DUST

Simon Freeborough - INTIMATE

Simon Freeborough - SUPINE

Simon Freeborough - IMPERFECTION - PINK - DIAMOND DUST

Simon Freeborough - CINQ

Simon Freeborough - QUATRE

Simon Freeborough - TROIS

Simon Freeborough - DEUX

Simon Freeborough - UN

Simon Freeborough - Ashtray (Pink)

Simon Freeborough - Ashtray (Grey)

Simon Freebrough - Ashtray (Purple)

Simon Freeborough - Ashtray (Fade)

Simon Freeborough - Ashtray (Blush)

Simon Freeborough - Ruin (Marble Matt)

Simon Freeborough - Ruin (Marble Gloss) (Framed)

Simon Freeborough - Relic

Simon Freeborough - Ruin

Simon Freeborough - Sprinkles

Simon Freeborough - Cherry

Simon Freeborough - Chanel No.5 Grey (Framed)

Simon Freeborough - Chanel No.5 Grey with Drips (Framed)

Simon Freeborough - Flapper (Red)

Simon Freeborough - Flapper (Grey)

Simon Freeborough - Flapper (Black)

Simon Freeborough - Paragon

Simon Freeborough - Regret

Simon Freeborough - Sex Pistols (Gold)

Simon Freeborough - Sex Pistols (Pink)

Simon Freeborough - Sex Pistols (Grey)

Simon Freeborough - Allure

Simon Freeborough - Melee

Simon Freeborough - Solitaire

Simon Freeborough - Struck

Simon Freeborough - Imperfection

Simon Freeborough - Neroli

Simon Freeborough - Rose

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