Simon Ogden
Biography
Simon Ogden was born in 1956 in Bradford, England. He lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand, and until recently was Associate Professor at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury. His studio work encompasses painting, printmaking and sculpture. Simon is one of the few artists in the world working with antique and ‘found’ linoleum materials to produce evocative dreamscapes.
Simon’s work draws heavily from his long held interest in European, English and American Modernism and Surrealism. His work interweaves artistic concerns with personal passions, opening the door to a more varied dialogue, one that contains figuration and symbolic references to the landscape and the body.
Ogden has exhibited extensively and his work is included in a number of significant private, public and corporate collections including:
Christchurch City Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong,
College House Collection University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Christies Contemporary Arts, London, UK
St Barbara's Church, Mansfield UK
Royal College of Art UK
Manawatu Public Art Gallery
Palmerston North, NZ, Massey University
Palmerston North, NZ, Canterbury Hospital Board, NZ,
Dunmoochin Foundation, Melbourne
St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland, NZ
Christchurch Polytechnic, NZ
Air Nippon Airlines (ANA), Japan
Toyko Bank, Japan
Satachi & Satachi, New York, US
Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh Collection
Wallace Arts Trust Collection, Auckland, NZ
Christchurch College of Education, NZ
