Please join Brisbane-based artist Simon Degroot as he speaks about his practice and current exhibition, Capricious Forms, with Jan Manton. All are welcome.
In his current exhibition, Degroot translates small details from the built environment into abstract shapes that are useful for painting in Capricious Forms. In these new paintings, details are collected, re-formed, and re-arranged as flat abstract shapes on the canvas. Degroot focuses on strategies of collecting and organising, recasting and recombining forms in order to reinvent and rebuild.
Simon Degroot is an artist whose practice considers how contemporary abstract painting can interrogate and form a dialogue with pre-existing image details and abstract forms. He completed postgraduate studies at the Queensland College of Art, where he was awarded his PhD in 2017, with an exhibition titled, Familiar Beyond Recognition: Translation in Contemporary Abstraction. Degroot is the 2018 winner of the acquisitive Moreton Bay Art Award.
Date: Saturday 21st July
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Location: Jan Manton Art | 1/93 Fortescue Street, Spring Hill QLD 4000
Image: Simon Degroot, Overlay Blue (2018), Oil on Canvas, 138 x 123 cm
