Simon Bedwell (born 1963, Croydon, UK) is an artist based in London. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including “Post No Bills” at White Columns in New York, “Galleon and Other Stories” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “England Their England” at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig and “Beck's Futures 2004” at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow. He is represented by MOT in London. Simon Bedwell, now working on his own, spent most of his art career as a member of the London-based collective BANK.[1] BANK consisted of Bedwell and three other artists – John Russell, Milly Thompson and Andrew Williamson – who, throughout the 1990s, were a consistent presence on the London art-scene. BANK regularly hosted shows in their own warehouse space which combined the work of the group with that of other, often very well-known, artists in schizophrenic installations where it was often impossible to tell where one work ended and another began. The group also regularly produced art-world-baiting material in the form of satirical exhibition invitations, provocative show titles, their own tabloid newspaper ridiculing the excesses of the London scene and a campaign to improve gallery press releases that involved returning said documents to galleries with corrections to grammar and tips for improvement. Since the group’s split Bedwell has become a successful artist in his own right. His most widely known works combine second-hand posters with carefully selected slogans produced by Bedwell using WordArt, stencils and spray paint.
