Simon’s wood and steel sculptures are very much influenced by the rich and varied layers of his life and his surroundings – his childhood, time spent working as a shipwrights assistant, the sea, engineering, history and mythology – drawings and thoughts collected over many years in the piles of black and grey sketchbooks that fill his home and studio in Wales.

This is part of a series of hanging sculptures Simon has created for Collect 2024. ‘Pluvial
Purse’ deals with value of water above gold. The lower shape is a childhood memory of Simon's reminiscent of the
glistening goatskin water bags which Simon saw carried over shoulders or hanging from lorries
and buses in Khartoum.