13 Facts About Simon Faithfull

Simon Faithfull was born on 1966 and is an English artist based in Berlin and London.

Simon Faithfull's work has been widely exhibited in both international solo and group exhibitions, including Musee des Beaux Arts, Fabrica, FRAC Basse Normandie, The British Film Institute Gallery, London; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; CRAC Alsace, France, Stills, Edinburgh; and the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 as part of ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion.

Simon Faithfull is a half brother to singer and actress Marianne Faithfull through his father's first marriage.

Simon Faithfull was the first visual artist to receive an Arts Council England Fellowship to travel to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey.

Simon Faithfull now makes his drawings using a bespoke iPhone app, Limbo.

Simon Faithfull's works revolve around research and experiments, and during the course of the past few years he has become known for his Lecture Performances that will often accompany his exhibitions.

Simon Faithfull is cited as trying to measure the world in order to check whether it exists and whether, when absent, he still exists.

In 2006, Simon Faithfull released LOST, a book that catalogues the objects lost by the artist during the course of his lifetime, alongside the stories that accompany these losses.

Since 2003, Simon Faithfull has lectured at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Reef saw Simon Faithfull intentionally sink a boat called the Brioney Victoria off the coast of Southwest England.

Whenever Simon Faithfull makes a new drawing it is immediately dispatched out to the world via the Limbo drawing service and automatically added to an ever-growing, online database which contains every drawing made by Simon Faithfull since 2000.

Half a decade later Simon Faithfull again traversed the Meridian Line, this time travelling south through Europe and Africa heading towards the exact centre of nowhere.

In 2009, Simon Faithfull made a journey from Liverpool to Liverpool, traveling by container ship, train and bus.