1962 Born in Pembrokeshire, U.K.

Education

1981 - 84 BA (Hons) Graphics: Newcastle-upon Tyne Polytechnic
1985 - 87 MA (RCA) Illustration, Royal College of Art, London
2002 TEFL Teacher Training International Certificate no: BK 1611-0101

Awards

1989 Nominated for Creative Futures Illustration Category
1986 & 1987 Basil Alkazzi Travelling Scholarships to Greece
2006 B&W Magazine Portfolio Contest Excellence Award 2006

Solo Exhibitions

2010 "Simon Larbalestier: Pixies Retrospective", Snap Galleries, London, UK 17th April - 29th May 2010
2009 "Minotaur" Village Underground, London, UK
2005 "Simon Larbalestier "Beau Damon Richards Gallery, California, USA
2005 "Art of Music", Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California, USA
2004 "Simon Larbalestier", Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
2003 "Dreamland", Galleri Thomas Ehrngren, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 "Simon Larbalestier", Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1999 "Attracting to Emptiness", Edge Company, London
1999 "Simon Larbalestier", Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1999 "88 2 99", Houston Gallery, Seattle, USA

Group Exhibitions

Upcoming Show: July 2010 "Spilt Light" Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London, UK
2009 "M is for Melancholia", C4 Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
2005 "Art of Music", Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California
2002 "Circus, Carnivals, Freaks & Oddities", CPOP Gallery, Detroit, USA
1993 "Gate 14", Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London
1992 "How Noisy Everything Grows", Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London
1991 "Still Lives", The Special Photographer's Gallery, London
"Selected Works", The Special Photographer's Gallery, London
1990 "Original Copies" (touring show), Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Axis Gallery, Tokyo; Century Plazza, Nagoya; La Foret Gallery, Tokyo
1989 "Animal Magic", The Special Photographer's Gallery, London
"Camley Street - Green at the end of the Tunnel", The Special Photographer's Gallery London
"Ghosts", toured Italy, curated by The Special Photographer's Gallery, London
"Creative Futures", Hamilton's Gallery, London
"Simon Larbalestier/Ewan Fraser", The Special Photographer's Gallery, London
1988 "Breakthrough", Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London
"On the Border", The Special Photographer's Gallery, London
"Travelling Eye", The Diorama Gallery, London
1987/88 "RCA in Japan", Tokyo
Selected Design Exhibitions associated with Vaughan Oliver/v23
1994 "This Rimy River", Murray Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design, Los Angeles, USA
1993 "Glove",GG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 "Glove", DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1991 "Exhibition/Exposition Vaughan Oliver/v23", Espace Grasli, Nantes & PavillionTusquets, Parc de la Villette, Paris

Invited International Screenings

2008 Foto Freo 2008 Festival, Fremantle, Western Australia.
2007 Angkor Photography Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Other Selected Design Exhibitions

1994 "This Rimy River", Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1993 "Glove", GGG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 "Glove", DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1991 "Exhibition/Exposition Vaughan Oliver/v23", Espace Grasli, Nantes & Pavillion Tusquets, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
"The Art of Selling Songs", Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
"The Art of Science", City of Plymouth Museums & Art Gallery, UK
1990 "Design in the Public Service The Dutch PPT 1920- 1990", Design Museum, London, UK

Employment

Self-employed freelance photographer. Collaborated with designers Vaughan Oliver and Chris Biggs of v23 and provided images for the record label 4AD. Created record covers for The Pixies, Red House Painters and Heidi Berry, many of which have since become collectors' items. Much of our collaborative work has been featured in the book Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures.

S ince 1987 I have worked for numerous clients within the UK including British Airways, The British Council, Midland HSBC Group, Euro Tunnel, Olympia and York, Mercury Communications, Guinness, Hooch, Gordon's Gin, Asda Wines, Standard Steamship, Prudential, Esso, Mazda, Sony Music, Alberta Ferretti, Capital Radio, Central Office of Information, New Scientist, Penguin, Secker and Warburg and the Royal National Institute for the Blind. During the period 2008-2009 I was commissioned by Vintage Classics, Random House, London to shoot a series of 15 Book cover jackets for Charles Dickens' novels. In 2009 I collaborated with Vaughan Oliver on a limited edition box set re-issue of Pixies recordings, entitled "Minotaur", which includes a 72 page large format book of my new photography.

Teaching Experience

2004 External Validator for Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) for the BA Visual Communication course curriculum.
1992- 2003 Visiting lecturer at Camberwell College of Art, The London Institute, with responsibility for running seminar groups with the second and third year students within the BA (Hons) Department of Communication and Graphic Design.
1988-1991 External Examiner for Bournemouth College of Art, UK
1988-92 Research Fellow, Department of Illustration at the Royal College of Art alongside the artist Richard Caldicott, exploring the graphic applications of colour photocopiers. The fellowship also involved tutoring MA Students across all disciplines. I organised and jointly curated the RCA exhibition "How Noisy Everything Grows", sponsored by Canon UK and Canon Japan.

Guest Lectureships

1992- present day Guest lectures and conducted workshops at Bournemouth College of Art, Bath College of Art, Manchester College of Art, London College of Printing, Royal College of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), Camberwell College of Art, The London Institute and University of the Creative Arts (UCA), Epsom, UK.
Invited international guest lectures in Seattle and San Francisco, USA

Publications

1993 Commissioned by Mitchell Beazley, Publishers, to research, collate and write the book, "The Art and Craft of Montage", depicting the work of 40 artists, notably Terry Dowling, Dan Fern, Russell Mills, Richard Caldicott, Andre Klimowski, the Douglas Brothers, David Blamey and Jake Tilson.

Selected Portfolio Reviews and Press

2009 Filter Magazine, USA Issue 37
Web URL: http://www.simon-larbalestier.co.uk/press/press047.html
C International Photo Magazine, Spain Issue 8
Web URL: http://www.simon-larbalestier.co.uk/press/press035.html
2008 South China Post Sunday Magazine October 17th, Hong Kong
Harper's Bazzar, Hong Kong, October Issue
Touchstone Magazine, Cambodia, March/April Issue
City Magazine, Hong Kong, October Issue
On Pedder Magazine, Hong Kong, Issue 5
Imbroglio Magazine, UK, Issue 2
Web URL: www.imbrogliomagazine.com
2007 MacPOWER Magazine, Japan, Vol 18 No 5 Issue 209
2006 Black and White Magazine, USA, Special Issue 44,
Web Photo Mag, France, Issue 5
Web Photo Mag, France, Issue 2
Web URL: http://www.webphotomage.com
2004 Black and White Photography, UK, Issue 35,
Web URL: http://www.simon-larbalestier.co.uk/press/b2worlds.html
2003 Loop Magazine, Issue 4, Imbroglio, London, UK,
Farang Magazine, Thailand, July Issue
1999 Zoom Magazine, Spain, January/February Issue
Web URL: http://www.simon-larbalestier.co.uk/press/zoom.html
Scott Nicols Gallery, USA Catalogue Essay,
Web URL: http://www.simon-larbalestier.co.uk/press/sng.html

Online Press Archive URL Links

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Additional Information

Profiled on BBC2's "The Late Show" in 1989 in a series of profiles on Contemporary British Photographers.
Featured in "The Best of British Men", 1993 Edition, published by Best of British Publications, London.
Travelled extensively in America, Australia and Asia in recent years to produce new images.
Prints are held in collections in the UK, USA, Australia and Europe
Currently represented by Snap Galleries in the UK.