Micheal Simms is an award winning painter based in Sydney. Having completed degrees in psychology and film at Flinders University before winning a scholarship to study art at the Julian Ashton Art School Michael's practice brings together his interest in classical art and contemporary human behaviour to reveal hidden truths about his subjects.
Simms has been a finalist in the Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize (2020), the Percival Portrait Prize (2020), the Kennedy Art Award (2019), the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (2019), the Lethbridge Art Award (2019), the Percival Tucker Portrait Prize (2018) and winner of both the Young Artist Prize through the Art Society of NSW (2018), and of the SBS Portrait Prize (2018). In 2017 he was a finalist in the prestigious Doug Moran Portrait Prize, the Mosman Art Prize and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize among others. Simms first exhibited with FLG as part of our Exploration exhibition series in 2017. His work is in numerous private collections including the Elliott Eyes Collection, the Thomas Keneally Centre at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, Cliftons Venues, Sydney, YSC Consulting Sydney