Simon Degroot: Capricious Forms

Simon Degroot Capricious Forms 4 – 28 July 2018

Capricious Forms 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.

Fantasticaprice #1 (2018) Oil on canvas 167 x 183 cm

Fantasticaprice #2 (2018) Oil on canvas 167 x 183 cm

Fantasticaprice #3 (2018) Oil on canvas 167 x 183 cm

Cut Together #6 (2018) Acrylic on paper collage 21 x 15 cm

Cut Together #12 (2018) Acrylic on paper collage 21 x 15 cm

Cut Together #13 (2018) Acrylic on paper collage 21 x 15 cm

Displaced Measurements #1 (2018) Oil on board 55 x 40 cm

Displaced Measurements #2 (2018) Oil on board 55 x 40 cm

Displaced Measurements #3 (2018) Oil on board 55 x 40 cm

Displaced Measurements #4 (2018) Oil on board 55 x 40 cm

Displaced Measurements #5 (2018) Oil on board 55 x 40 cm

Displaced Measurements # 6 (2018) Oil on board 55 x 40 cm

Capricious Forms Black Construct (2018) Acrylic on paper collage 17 x 15 cm

Capricious Forms Black (2018) Oil on Canvas 107 x 123 cm

Capricious Forms Blue Construct (2018) Acrylic on paper collage 17 x 15 cm

Capricious Forms Blue (2018) Oil on canvas 107 x 123 cm

Capricious Forms Green Construct (2018) Acrylic on paper collage 17 x 15 cm

Capricious Forms Green (2018) Oil on canvas 123 x 107 cm

Configured Black (2016) Oil on canvas 183 x 167 cm

Untitled Blue (2016) Oil on canvas 183 x 167 cm

Picture Building (2016) Oil on canvas 183 x 244 cm

Memphis Circle (2017) Oil on board 30 x 24 cm

Rainbow Blue (2017) Oil on board 30 x 24 cm

Doodad Smile (2017) Oil on board 30 x 24 cm

Simon Degroot CV www.simondegroot.com Education 2017 2013

PhD, Griffith University BFA with Honours I, Qld College of Art, Griffith University

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 Capricious Forms, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane Cut Together, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Bundaberg 2017 Decorate, Wellington St Projects, Sydney Familiar Beyond Recognition, Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane 2016 Picture Building, Kick-Arts Contemporary Arts, Cairns Hard Graphics, Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane 2015 Composite Orders, Rubicon Ari, Melbourne 2014 Select Reshape, Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane Shallow Space, ANCA Gallery, Canberra Reflective Fragments, Sawtooth ARI, Tasmania Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Abstraction Twenty Eighteen, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne 2017 Our Kind of Playground, curated by Kellee Uhr. Artisan, Brisbane 2016 15 Artists 2016, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe Resort, Art on James Street, curated by Alison Kubler, Brisbane Still Life: Reanimating the Inanimate, Pine Rivers Art Gallery 2015 At This Time, This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Feeling For Place, Caboolture Regional Gallery 2014 Collectibles 4, Spiro | Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane Selected Public Art and Other Projects 2017 Rediscover, Remember, Connect, Collins St Centre, South Perth Building, Pattern, Form, The Barracks and Queensland Rail, Brisbane Build, Connect, Grow, Bundaberg Regional Galleries 2016 Flowers Collection, iAM Projects, Sunshine Coast University Hospital 2015 Changing Lanes Mural, Changing Lanes Festival, Cairns 2014 Pillars Project Mural, G20 Cultural, The Pillars Project, Brisbane After Image, Brisbane Hilton, Brisbane Awards 2018 2016 2015

Winner, Moreton Bay Region Art Awards, QLD Finalist, Redland Art Awards, Redland Art Gallery, QLD Winner, Moreton Bay Region Art Awards, QLD Highly Commended, Clayton Utz Art Award, QLD

Collections Moreton Bay Regional Galleries, Museum of Brisbane, Artbank, Sunshine Coast, University Hospital, Lady Cilento Hospital, Crown Towers Perth, Brisbane Hilton, Sydney Hilton

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