You may not be familiar with the name Simon Mills, but if you live in Bristol and engage in any way with its artistic subculture you’ll have almost certainly seen his work. Simon is a prolific artist who’s displayed work in exhibitions and galleries from Bristol to New York.
You won’t see his name in lights emblazoned across the front of the Bristol Museum though, well, not yet anyway. This art is for the people, and that doesn’t imply a dilution of artistic conception, just that it does not distance itself from ordinary folk. There’s no pretension attached, just the sense of a love of drawing that can’t help but escape onto anything that lies in his path. He’ll draw on anything, literally. From discarded 3-legged chairs, bits of wood, broken skateboards, anything. This subversion of objects, and the ability to see creative potential in things that are ignored by others is the result of a life of skating, where the subversive use of architecture is the primary canvas for expression.
He is the resident artist for the Drawn collective, and is part of the inkygoodness collective, he creates T-shirt designs for Mild West Heroes and he’s an artist at Start The Bus. He has provided illustrations for this very magazine, and recently designed a T-shirt for the band ‘The Egg’. He also runs Cloud Neuf, a creative company offering artistic, design and web services.
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