Simon Lee Dicker: REACH Scotland Residency
ESW is looking forward to welcoming Simon Lee Dicker, our first REACH Scotland resident of 2026 who will be here between 16 February and 15 March. He will be working on a series of material experiments with press moulded ceramic in relation to forthcoming exhibition projects.
Born within the circle of the M25, Simon Lee Dicker now lives and works in rural Somerset. He describes himself as having a restless artistic practice that shifts between solitary studio-based production and organising collective and socially engaged projects. His work explores a discordant relationship with landscape and the marks we make on the natural world, from radioactive haystacks and memories of a local power station, to toppled Weather Stations and mounds of discarded tyres. Recent work has taken the form of large scale temporary sculptural installations, ceramics and creative writing that reference the architecture of post-industrial landscapes and ‘more-than human’ species – ecosystem engineers that restore, regenerate and rewild these sites. In 2011 he co-founded OSR Projects to bring people together and explore artist-led activity in rural Somerset.
