Both born in Birmingham 1973, live and work in Birmingham
Exhibitions and Projects
Publications
Horror in the Modernist Block, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2023 (exhibition catalogue)
Art Licks Issue 28: The Idea of a City, September 2022
Playgrounding: the Playground as a Symbolic Form of Society and Design Culture,
Domitilla Dardi, Corraini Edizioni, Milan 2022
The Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2019 (exhibition catalogue)
VENTRILOQUIST issue two, San Francisco, USA, Summer 2015
Whitechapel Gallery Activity Pack, Whitechapel Gallery 2014 (design of children’s activity pack to coincide with Richard Tuttle: I Don’t Know . The Weave of Textile Language)
Residency Works, Flat Time House, London 2014 (artist's book, designed by An Endless Supply)
Loose Parts, Whitechapel gallery 2013 (artist’s book/exhibition catalogue, designed by James Langdon)
Do Art, Whitechapel Gallery, 2012 (design of children’s activity pack to coincide with Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes exhibition)
& Labels issue 2, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design 2011
‘The Decade 2010–2020' The museum as hostage to fortune, An Endless Supply 2010
Something to do and Somewhere to do it, Modern Art Oxford 2010 (artist’s book, designed by James Langdon)
We Love Artists: Artist Residences Around the World, Someone’s Garden/BNN, Tokyo 2009
Art and Text, Black Dog Publishing, London 2009
Grizedale Arts—Adding Complexity to Confusion Grizedale Books, Ambleside, Cumbria 2009
Simon & Tom Bloor: As long as it lasts, Eastside Projects, Birmingham 2009 (artist’s book/exhibition catalogue, designed by James Langdon)
Thin Cities, Art on the Underground, London 2008
Kiosk5: KiteKiosk, Strategic Questions, Birmingham 2008 (artist’s book, with Nils Norman & Gavin Wade)
Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time And Space, Cultureshock Media, London 2008 (exhibition catalogue)
Platform for Art: Art on the Underground, Black Dog Publishing, London 2007
As if something once mentioned, now plain to see, Colony Publications, Birmingham 2007
SMART papers Kiosk7: OudWestKiosk, SMART Project Space Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (artist’s book, with Gavin Wade)
Kiosk6: Intellect&ComprehensionKiosk, Strategic Questions, Birmingham 2007 (artist’s book, with Gavin Wade)
Springhill Institute, Report on Activities Springhill Institute, Birmingham 2007
The Necessity of Everyday Living, Platform For Art, London 2007 (artist’s book)
Artist Links 2002–2006, Artist Links (British Council/Arts Council England), China 2006
Kiosk3: MERZKIOSK, Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria 2006 (artist’s book, with Gavin Wade)
Merz, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2006 (exhibition catalogue)
Generator 1, Article Press, Birmingham 2006
Beck’s futures 2006, ICA publications, London 2006
The second Guangzhou Triennial: Beyond: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangzhou Triennial, China 2006 (exhibition catalogue)
What are the senses? Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 2005 (artist’s book)
Roadshow, Grizedale Books, Ambleside, Cumbria 2003 (exhibition catalogue)
Press
Scary storeys – ‘Horror in the Modernist Block’ reviewed, Will Wiles, 2 December 2022
Review: Why villainy hangs out with modernist buildings, Pamela Buxton, RIBA Journal, 17 November 2022
Abacus at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, Grace Edwards, Corridor8, 31 July 2017
Review: Abacus, at Bluecoat, Patrick Kirk-Smith, Art in Liverpool, 29 August, 2017
Abacus at the Bluecoat, Gabrielle de la Puente, Erin & Ivy, The White Pube, 29 July 2017
A platform to observe a re-birth, Sarah Urwin Jones, The Herald, 2 Jul 2016
Art that invites you to "play" and see the world now, Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 21 June 2015
Build Your Own: Tools for Sharing, FACT, Liverpool, James Harper, Corridor8, 19 June 2015
Ground: Simon & Tom Bloor and Jim Howieson, Sam Hewland, a-n website, 21 May 2015
Simon & Tom Bloor: Residency Works, Rachel Guthrie, This is Tomorrow website, 22 July 2014
Success in Failure: Art in the City, Amelia Carruthers, March 15, 2014
Art and playgrounds by Simon and Tom Bloor, Paige Johnson, Playscapes blog, 19 July 2012
Things That Have Interested Me, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian Guide, 19 May 2012
Happy Habitat Revisited, Wesleigh Ogle, Dulwich OnView website, 24 June 2011
Locws International 2011 Art Across The City, Emma Geliot, a-n magazine, June 2011
Locws International 2011 Art Across The City, Clare Ferguson-Walker, a-n website, April 2011
Simon & Tom Bloor: The Fascination of Islands, Jon Blackwood, a-n magazine, April 2011
Simon & Tom Bloor: Hit and Miss, James Smith, This is Tomorrow website, 28 October 2010
Simon and Tom Bloor; Manfred Pernice: Modern Art, Oxford, Helen Peacocke, The Oxford Times, 6 October 2010
Simon and Tom Bloor As long as it lasts, James Langdon, Grafik, Issue 177, September 2009
Simon and Tom Bloor, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 21 February 2009
Folkestone Triennial, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, Issue 117, September 2008
There’s life in the old gull yet, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 15 June 2008
Folkestone Triennial, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 20 June 2008
Art in old places, Simon Grant, Apollo, July 2008
Simon & Tom Bloor—The Ballad of Gunpowder Joe, Sally O’Reilly, Art Review, Issue 19, February 2008
Kiosk7: OudwestKiosk, Marek Bartelik, Artforum, March 2008
Last Chance: Simon And Tom Bloor At Mot International, London, Bill Roberts, Saatchi Art blog, December 2007
All at once, together, at the same time, Alli Beddoes, a-n Magazine, January 2006
Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T, Michelle Atherton, Art Monthly, Issue 292, December 2005
Strategic Questions, Fused Magazine, Issue 24, 2005
Grants & Residencies
2015 British Council Artists’ International Development Fund, grant for research trip to Denver, USA
2014 Feeney Trust fellowship grant, Birmingham
2014 Platform Residency, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2013–14 Phynance Residency, Flat Time House, London
2011–12 Whitechapel Gallery Residency, Hermitage Primary School, London
2009 Elephant Trust Grant for As long as it lasts publication
2008 The New Art Gallery Walsall Residency
2007 Henry Moore Foundation Grant for Kiosk7: OudwestKiosk, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (with Gavin Wade)
2006 Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam Residency (funded by Arts Council England)
2005 UCE, Birmingham Generator 1 Curatorial Research & Development Grant
2004 Grizedale Arts, Cumbria Residency/Research & Development Grant
2004 Arts Council England International Research and Development Grant
Education
1997–2000
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
Also
2008-present
Founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham (with Celine Condorelli, Ruth Claxton, James Langdon and Gavin Wade)