Simon Bill is an artist, writer and teacher, educated at Central St. Martins and the Royal College of Art. He has been represented by Cabinet Gallery (London), Stuart Shave/Modern Art (London) and Patrick Painter (Los Angeles). In 2014 his first solo museum show, titled ‘Lucky Jim’, was at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. His novel ‘Artist in Residence’, a satire about the worlds of art and neuroscience, was published in 2016. He was appointed artist in residence at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Lisbon, in 2017. Bill is a regular contributor to several publications, writing on art, art education and the neuropsychology of visual perception. In 2020 the rights for his novel were acquired by Corestar Media and a TV series isnow in development. In 2022 Bill completed a series of five Op Art murals on Gt. Yarmouth seafront, commissioned by originalprojects, and in 2023 completed four more in Dover commissioned by Dover Arts Development (DAD). Bill’sbook DOVER, a slim volume of 12 essays, was published by DAD in 2025.
In 2020 Bill became a DAD Guardian and in January 2024 a DAD Director.