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British Art Fair 2025
Simon Casson will be represented by Long and Ryle Gallery at this year’s British Art Fair. The Gallery will be showing a preview of the some the work shown at the upcoming solo at the gallery in October. Long Ryle will be on Stand 27. Further details can be found
Corinthia Bucharest
A set of paintings based on the lives of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand I of Romania which included a mural in the Rotunda of the Historic Grand Hotel Du Boulevard in Bucharest. Aptly built by jeweller Jacques Herdan in the late 1800s, this jewel-box of a hotel relaunched in
Significant Other
Granta 168: Significant Other THE MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING The Team at Granta have selected Simon Casson’s painting Pelina’s Tourney 2003 as the cover for this years Summer issue. In Granta 168: Significant Other we consider the people who shape our sense of ourselves and reflect on the connections and
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The Floria
Long & Ryle Gallery
Solo Exhibition
14 October – 22 November
Artfully cavorting upon an imagined classical Roman stage, the characters of Simon Casson’s paintings play out the Ludi Florales, games with a smeary licentiousness, scattering beans and cavorting with hare and deer, such symbols of fertility and abundance, all in the name of the goddess Flora and the festival in her honour, braying to her for botanical protection.
Floral wreaths abound and nudity rules, broken and banded with swathes of colour, juxtaposing the customary white purity. Within the confines of the Circus Maximus farces were wildly acted out, fleshy and overtly sexual. Concubines musing upon the curated memento mori. Stepping over the threshold of normality, phantasmal gladiatorial displays form a backdrop to the cavorting courtesans who fiercely embraced the proceeding as their own.
