Colchester Art Society invites you to the Autumn Lecture at Firstsite, with CAS President Simon Carter.

For more than 40 years, Frinton-based artist Simon Carter has walked, drawn and painted the landscape around him. Simon Carter: From the Landscape reflects on this long relationship with the Essex coast in an exhibition that asks us to look at painting again.

The talk will look at the thinking behind the exhibition, how it was constructed and how, through paint, the exhibition explores the act of looking.

The event will consist of a talk with Q&A from Simon, followed by a tour of the exhibition.

About the artist

Simon Carter is an Essex-based artist and curator. He studied at Colchester Institute (1980–1981) and then North East London Polytechnic (1981–1984).

In 2013, he collaborated with artist Robert Priseman to form the artist-led group Contemporary British Painting and then the ‘East Contemporary Art Collection’, the first dedicated collection of contemporary art for the East of England, which is housed at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich.

Simon is President of Colchester Art Society and has been Artist-in-residence at the University of Essex and Firstsite, Colchester. He is represented by Messum’s.