Simon Cowling has been a professional in the advertising, design and audio-visual industries for over 50 years. He has travelled extensively, photographing in many countries including Hong Kong, Italy, Greece, the Middle East, Spain, Italy, Africa, the United States, Canada, South East Asia and Sri Lanka.
He has photographed for numerous advertIsing campaigns, corporate publications, books and magazines, and has run several large studios. He is also an educator, designing and running courses for the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney as well as founding Shoot Photography Workshops, Perth’s first independent photography school.He still teaches, but in a private capacity only.
Simon is an accomplished exhibiting photographer and printer, and he has archived and printed the work of many well-known Western Australian artists. He has also published over 17 photography books. His work is in many private collections as well as Artbank, the W.A. Art Gallery, the National Gallery Canberra, King Edward Memorial Hospital, the Kerry Stokes Collection and the Michael Chaney Collection. His exhibitions have also resulted in various corporate commissions, including a 400-print commission for the University of Sydney as well as a 56 room commission for Marriott Hotels.
Simon has designed, produced and self-published a number of books of his photography through the Blurb publishing site, which can be reached on the Books button on the website.
Photograph of Simon Cowling by Nic Ellis
Notes on the Galleries.
The website contains two major galleries, Exhibitions and Browse.
Exhibitions contains the contents of Simon's past four solo exhibitions. Whilst some of these have sold out their editions (each is an edition of 5) many still have part of the edition still available for sale.
Browse contains Simon's possible inclusions for further exhibitions on an ongoing basis. Images will be added and deleted from time to time. None of the pictures in this gallery are currently editioned until they become part of an exhibition.
Pictures are available in various sizes from from A3 upwards. The search box can be used to look for a number of attributes such as dominant colours, countries, genre (landscape, seascape, abstract, etc.) A partial list of common search terms are listed below.
All prints from this site are printed with pigment inks on museum quality archival art paper.
If you are interested in purchasing any work please contact Simon directly through the Contact page on the site, stating the title of the image.
Partial List of Search Words Various colours (red, blue, yellow etc), Warmtone, moody, classic, abstract, design, graphic, confusing, detailed, plant, tree, flower, landscape, streetscape, urbanscape, newyork, canada, morocco, nyc, mysterious, usa, highcolour, saturated, ontheroad, cruising, clouds, dramatic, quirky, highrise, wallstreet, signage, starsandstripes, odd, building, architecture, flower, botanic, stripes, fremantle, australia, westernaustralia, bush, desert, deco, unusual, patterns, cottesloe, grantstreet, summer, sunset, historical, oldbuildings, texture, nature, sky, skyscape, tasmania, shop, shopfront, nighttime, weathered, greece, textured, wall, streetart, graffiti, wallart, traditional, striking, minimal, colourful, colourist, minimalist, shadow, shadows, shutters, argentina, paraty, reflection, rainy, wet, streetvendor, streetstall, streetlife, street, beach, fishingboat, srilanka, exotic, highcontrast, blackandwhite, b&w, whimsical, river, calm, meditative, stormy, evening, tranquil, powerful, summer, antique, rio, riodejaneiro, people, storefront, england, scotland, wales, ireland, uk, andalusia, rottnest, lighthouse, stars,