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Sim Smith is a contemporary art gallery based in Camberwell, South London https://www.instagram.com/simsmith_

08/10/2026

Please join us for a special celebration of Tim Garwood’s latest exhibition with the gallery, Signals, tonight, Thursday, 8th October 2026, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm with a special In Conversation from 7pm to 7.30pm between Tim Garwood and Livia Turnbull, Curator of Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery. Free, all welcome.

Bringing together paintings on birch panel, painted photographs and installation in the form of steel agricultural gates, the exhibition explores what it means to look closely, to slow down and to become attentive to one’s surroundings. Rooted in material interrogation and an ongoing investigation into the experience of the world, the works move between observation, abstraction and sensory memory.

We are pleased to share Keeping the Vigil, Gwen Evans’ latest solo exhibition at William Hine will be concurrently opening next door to the gallery, at 311 Camberwell New Road, London SE5 0TF.

The gallery will be open for extended hours on Frieze week from Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, and Saturday, 11am to 5pm.

07/10/2026

Opening tomorrow night in Camberwell. Please join us at Sim Smith and William Hine between 6:30-8:30pm to celebrate the openings of:

Tim Garwood, ‘Signals’
Sim Smith, 6 Camberwell Passage, London SE5 0AX
There will be a special ‘In Conversation’ from 7pm to 7.30pm between Tim Garwood and Livia Turnbull, Curator of Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery.

Gwen Evans, ‘Keeping the Vigil’
William Hine, 311 Camberwell New Rd, London SE5 0TF

Free entry, all welcome.

06/10/2026

Please join us this Thursday evening for a special celebration of ‘Signals’, Tim Garwood’s latest exhibition at Sim Smith. The opening reception will take place from 6.30pm to 8.30pm with a special ‘In Conversation’ from 7pm to 7.30pm between Tim Garwood and Livia Turnbull, Curator of Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery. Free, entry, all welcome, RSVP essential at [email protected].

Tim Garwood
Location, 2026
acrylic on panel, artist frame
238 × 179 cm (93¾ × 70½ in)

We move through a world of signs and signals, constantly reading and responding to what surrounds us: a gesture, a colour, a sound, a fleeting encounter, a change in the weather. Together, these impressions shape the way we experience the world.

‘Signals’ begins from a similar state of heightened attention for Garwood, specifically from a handful of moments over the past year — uncanny happenings that seemed to carry a significance beyond coincidence. A fallen tree, a terracotta dog unearthed from a garden, the repeated appearance of arrows in unexpected places. These moments seemed to demand a closer look, suggesting that the everyday might be speaking in ways we are not always equipped to hear.

The paintings emerge from this act of listening. Rather than depicting a fixed reality, they follow what reveals itself along the way: unexpected connections, intuitions, memories and chance encounters. Each mark becomes a trace of that process, and each painting a record of an ongoing conversation between intention, energy, the familiar and the unforeseen.

Garwood likens this openness of the senses and connection to our environment to the Latin phrase ‘Solvitur Ambulando’ — ‘it is solved by walking’ — suggesting that some questions can only be answered through movement, time and direct experience.

Bringing together paintings on birch panel, painted photographs and installation in the form of steel agricultural gates, the exhibition explores what it means to look closely, to slow down and to become attentive to one’s surroundings. Rooted in material interrogation and an ongoing investigation into the experience of the world, the works move between observation, abstraction and sensory memory.

03/10/2026

Opening next week, Sim Smith is delighted to present Signals, Tim Garwood’s latest exhibition with the gallery.

Please join us for a special celebration of the exhibition on Thursday, 8th October 2026, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at 6 Camberwell Passage, London SE5 0AX. There will be a special In Conversation from 7pm to 7.30pm between Tim Garwood and Livia Turnbull, Curator of Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery. Free, all welcome, RSVP essential.

Livia Turnbull is the Curator of Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery. As an experienced collections curator, she has worked as the Curator of Computation and Communications at the Science Museum, London, Assistant Curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) with key projects including the V&A’s Design: 1900-Now gallery and the display Patric D. Prince: Digital Art Visionary. Her recent writing has included a co-authored chapter about collecting NFTs in the Routledge book ‘Ethics of Contemporary Collecting’, leading work on the timeline for Thames & Hudson publication ‘Digital Art: 1960s-Now’, and co-authoring a chapter reflecting on the making of and ongoing life of the Design: 1900-Now gallery (publication forthcoming).

30/09/2026

Last chance to see Wenhui Hao’s solo exhibition ‘Forgiveness is a prolonged death’, closing this Saturday. Sim Smith is open on Thursday and Friday from 10am to 4pm and Saturday from 11am to 5pm.

Wenhui Hao
The rain was fire but we were wooden, 2026
oil on linen
120 × 150 cm (47¼ × 59 in)

28/09/2026

“’Tumble’ is a moment in time where one suddenly gives way to gravity. An accident, a mistake or perhaps on purpose. This work is a reflection of my urge to push past a more static and constructed way of working. Freedom to experiment and to learn are part of childhood, and as we grow, risk becomes less attractive or rewarded, especially in times of uncertainty. Reclaiming this language of chaos and fragmentation through drawing is always a route back to childhood for me.”

Featuring work by Kemi Onabulé, Firefly is a charity supporting children affected by conflict, using arts, education and peacebuilding to help them heal, learn and thrive. Alongside local partners in Bosnia, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, the charity supports programmes in art, music, early years education, psychosocial support and cross-community peacebuilding, all rooted in the belief that every child deserves the chance to imagine a better future.

Sale of artworks opens today, 28th September on the Artists for Firefly link in bio. All proceeds from the Artists for Firefly sale go directly towards this work, giving children the chance to heal, create and dream.

Kemi Onabulé
Tumble, 2026
watercolour and pastel on paper
30 × 21 cm (11¾ × 8¼ in)

Kemi Onabulé

27/09/2026

Last chance to view ‘Forego’, a new body of work by Caroline Jackson on view at The Armory Show, Sim Smith, Booth P24, closing today. The Armory Show is open today from 11am to 6pm.

This compelling body of work investigates a new spatial language in Jackson’s practice, pushing textural and structural possibilities of paint to reimagine space and landscape. Through layered surfaces, shifting densities, and an acute sensitivity to material process, Jackson creates paintings that oscillate between physical presence and perceptual openness, inviting viewers to navigate space as something felt as much as seen.

Jackson creates spaces that feel deeply resonant and strangely whole. Light, dusky pinks and embers of orange scatter across the works, a vibrant residue of the prolonged British summer that was only seen later, as if excavated in retrospect. With every stroke and gesture the works are shaped by touch, vulnerability, and the unexpected ways the past surfaces in the present.

Caroline Jackson
Earth Parade, 2026
oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
190 × 250 cm (74¾ × 98⅜ in)

Caroline Jackson

26/09/2026

Wenhui Hao’s first solo exhibition in London, ‘Forgiveness is a prolonged death’, is open now at the gallery. Sim Smith is open today until 5pm.

Bringing together a new body of large-scale paintings, including the artist’s largest work to date, the exhibition explores the complexities of women’s lived experience through an immersive painterly language in which body, landscape and memory become inseparable. Moving between beauty and violence, intimacy and transformation, Wenhui’s paintings create psychologically charged spaces where desire, vulnerability and resilience coexist.

郝文惠 Wenhui Hao

25/09/2026

Visit us at The Armory Show, Booth P24 for a solo presentation by British artist Caroline Jackson, open until Sunday.

Jackson’s work is shaped by instinct, feeling and intuition. Blurring the boundaries between architecture and landscape, her paintings dissolve distinctions between the built and natural world through vivid planes of colour, textured line and shifting form. Suspended between serenity and chaos, Jackson’s compositions evoke spaces in constant transformation — meditations on growth, impermanence and the fragile balance between order and entropy.

Caroline Jackson
Splinter, 2026
oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
195 × 165 cm (76¾ × 65 in)

24/09/2026

Visit us at The Armory Show, Booth P24 for ‘Forego’, British artist Caroline Jackson’s first solo presentation in New York, open until Sunday.

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