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It has been a busy, rewarding couple of years for the London-based artist and designer Simone Brewster. Between last spring and today, her multiform creations — straddling furniture, painting, and jewelry — have been the focus of acclaimed solo presentations at London Design Festival, where she unveiled her monumental, fantastical public art installation Spirit of Place as the event's Special Commission; at Greenwich Peninsula's NOW Gallery, to which Brewster brought a fascinating exploration of color and form; and at Portobello Road's J/M Gallery, where Changing Tides, her most recent exhibition, examined "the emotional sentiment, value, and comfort" embodied by organic shapes across canvas and wooden sculpture. With acquisitions from the V&A and Washington's Smithsonian Museum, it is fair to say Brewster is enjoying some momentum.
