Glorious Ninth 2001-2011

Glorious Ninth was a partnership between Kate Southworth and the late Patrick Simons. They worked together from 2001 until 2011. From 2001-2004 they made digital paintings, collages, music and sound works for gallery display and for the Internet. Due to the obsolescence of some of the software, it is now only possible to experience these works in other formats: still images, sound files, videos and text. None of these adequately capture the essence of the work and its context. Although much of their early work utilised and critiqued new technologies, there was also a deep engagement with the traumas of death and dying. From 2004 they expanded our work from the purely digital to include the politics and joy of everyday living. They made paintings and music and devised rituals and rites that involved bread-making, walking, gardening, composting, cooking and gatherings. Their work was experienced by those that lived in or visited their house and garden, and by a wider audience when the work was presented online, at festivals and exhibitions. They continued making work together until Patrick Simons’ untimely death in June 2011.

Their work has been disseminated nationally and internationally and is archived in online collections. 

Patrick Simons, artist, composer, musician, and so very much more, 1963-2011