Talks & Conferences
Simon has presented his artwork widely at numerous venues, including The Ruskin School of Art at University of Oxford, The V&A Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons, The Royal College of Nursing & The University of Otago. His work has additionally been presented extensively at national and international conferences including the Medical Artists Association, Anatomical Society, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery.
2024 Creative Methodologies in Educational Research
School of Education. University of Bristol.
2023 Guest lecturer Arts & Humanities in Medical Education course module
Diploma Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals. University of Bristol.
2022 Metal Culture Southend
Artist in residence presentation. Metal Culture, Southend.
2022 Ethics in Art/Science Practice
Ethics teaching for the Introduction to Contemporary Art & Health. University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2020 Guest lecturer Arts & Humanities in Medical Education course module
Diploma Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals. University of Bristol.
2021 Art & Science Practice as Research
Centre for Academic Primary Care Regional Meeting. University of Bristol.
2017 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course
'Facial Difference & Identity'
Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2017 Digital Futures: Health Re-envisioned
Invited guest speaker, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2017 Medical Artists Association Conference
Invited guest speaker, Charles Darwin House, London
2016 Clinical Humanities Society
Invited guest speaker, King's College London
2016 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course
'CLEFT': An Arts Initiative
Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2016 Next Steps: Dental Research Conference
Invited guest speaker . Hamilton House, Bristol
2016 Reconstructive Prosthetics South West Research Day
Invited guest speaker. Southmead Hospital
2016 Art and Humanities in the Medical Curriculum
'CLEFT: A Therapeutic Arts Programme'
University of Bristol
2015 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course
'Reconstruct and Regenerate'
Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2015 Grand Round
'Medicine through artistic avenues'
South Bristol Academy, University Hospitals Bristol
2015 Drawing Medicine
'Taking art and medicine beyond the curriculum'
Anatomy Department, University of Bristol Medical School
2014 The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis
'The importance of art in medical education'
Waterman's Gallery, London
2014 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course
'Reconstruct and Regenerate'
Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2012 Plastic Viscera - Interdisciplinary Art/Science Symposium
'Plastic Viscera'
Brighton and Sussex Medical School & The Blond McIndoe Research Foundation
2011 Art and Medicine Symposium
'Medicine through an artistic paradigm'
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
2011 Brighton Science Festival Speaker
'Flesh and wax: rediscovering the ceroplastic artists'
Brighton Science Festival
Conference presentations
2022 South West Society for Academic Primary Care Conference
A Cleft in Time. Bristol.
2017 Craniofacial Society of Great Britain & Ireland Conference
'A Cleft in Time’: An Arts Project Exploring Narratives of Cleft & Psychological Wellbeing.'
Sage, Newcastle
2016 European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS) Conference
London
2016 British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (BAOMS) Junior Trainees Conference
'Maxfax experience through an artistic paradigm' & 'An artist residency in wartime trauma and healing'
Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow
2015 Anatomical Society Conference
'An artist residency in wartime trauma and healing'
Magdelene College, University of Cambridge
2011 Anatomical Society Conference
'The Unnecessary Research of Art and Anatomy: Education through an artistic paradigm'
University of Cardiff
2011 Art and Medicine Conference, University of Otago Medical School
'The Unnecessary Research of Art and Medicine'
Dunedin School of Art & the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Dunedin New Zealand
2011 Virtual Futures Conference
'Grow me a new face: Emerging biotechnology in facial reconstructive surgery'
University of Warwick
Panelist
2014 The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis
World TB Day Symposium: Anna Dumitriu
Waterman's Gallery, London
2013 Be Receptive
Art/Science Symposium
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
2011 Laboratory Life
Interdisciplinary Art/Science Laboratory
Lighthouse with the Arts Catalyst and the Wellcome Trust, Brighton
2010 Brighton Photo Fringe Festival keynote exhibition
Phoenix Gallery, Brighton