Simon Degroot translates small details from the built environment into abstract shapes that are useful for painting in Capricious Forms. In this exhibition of 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 a Brisbane based artist who 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.
Image: Fantasticaprice #3 (2018) Oil on canvas, 167 x 183 cm
