In 2003 Film and Video Umbrella commissioned Simon Faithfull to make ‘30km’, a video installation exhibited at NOW Festival, Nottingham, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth and Pump House Gallery London. His work ‘0°00 Navigation’ was included in Film and Video Umbrella’s selection of work for Zoo Art Fair in 2008. His practice is also the subject of the Film and Video Umbrella publication, ‘Going Nowhere’, published in July 2009.

Simon Faithfull (born 1966) lives and works in London and Berlin. His work often centres on journeys, whether proposed or actually undertaken. He was the first visual artist to win an Arts Council fellowship to travel to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, and his first permanent public art commission documents a trip from Liverpool, UK to Liverpool, Canada. The work is made in a variety of media, including PalmPilot drawings and online projects, as well as film and video.

The artist has exhibited in many venues internationally, with solo presentations including Chisenhale Gallery, London; Stills, Edinburgh; and Parker’s Box, New York. His work has also been shown at LABoral, Spain; Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin; and Kunsthalle Freiburg, Switzerland.