Simon Read LG is artist in residence for the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. 8-10 Nov, Suffolk.

Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival 2024
Weekend of 8 – 10 November 2024
on Suffolk’s glorious coast

Readings, Workshops, Exhibitions, Talks and more

Simon Read Artist-in-Residence
Informed Speculation 
COURTYARD GALLERY AT BALLROOM ARTS

Simon’s practice is based on drawing, for him a portal to the imagination. It is a first step and essential precursor to a sense of ownership of an idea. The sensory experience of reinventing a subject in time and space as marks on paper is an act of becoming and creates a common ground for sharing with others.

When Simon first became involved in discussions over coastal processes and management, his instinct was to translate what was unfamiliar to him into a form that he was conversant with. The intention was not so much to communicate but to create a middle ground where ideas can meet.

​The map works exhibited in Informed Speculation are hybrids. Every effort was taken to ensure their accuracy and fidelity to the data used, but they are essentially speculative and take drawing as a means of becoming rather than informing. In drawing terms, he can take the liberty of raising a north easterly storm on an exposed coastline just to see what would happen.

The experience of drawing is both immediate and tangible, it must negotiate the waywardness of material and the skill to contain it, in microcosm it is a salutary lesson in control and letting go.

​Simon will be talking about the purpose and intention of his map works in the Courtyard Gallery at 10.00am on Friday 8 November and will participate in the panel discussion ‘To the River’ on Sunday 10 November at noon. He will also be occupying the South Lookout Tower on Aldeburgh Beach on Saturday 9 November, which will be an opportunity for people to drop in to speak to him about his process and ideas, his drawing practice, his poetry and his environmental activism.

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Poetry in Aldeburgh was established in 2016 to encourage the reading and writing of poetry in Aldeburgh and the east Suffolk region through an annual festival to include readings, performances, writing workshops and other activities.