Transfer Echo
SIMON DEGROOT 24 March - 18 April, 2021
In Transfer Echo painted forms are transferred between mediums to investigate an expanded interaction with painting. Central to this investigation are four acrylic templates of abstracted motifs, a suite of individual forms that have been liberated from their acrylic supports and reinserted into painting. This process of mediation and transfer between artworks highlights their formal relationship. Each shape that is absent in the negative spaces of the template becomes present as it is reinserted as painted form. This presence is encountered indirectly and exists like a photocopy, a ghost that echoes from one artwork to the next. Abstract details are haunted by their previous contexts, and it is through this kind of interconnectedness that each form is reanimated. Moving between media, or intermediality, is important because it reveals the contingent and transient nature of the abstract shapes in my work. Each material manifestation creates a new relationship where meaning is created in the space between works. Through these relationships I can connect with other visual ecologies to create new meaning. — Simon Degroot
Left Page: Simon Degroot, Transfer Echo Contact Sheet 4 (detail), 2021, laser cut acrylic, 95 x 66cm. Right Page: Simon Degroot, Oblique Transfer 2, 2021, oil on linen, 72 x 56cm.
Transfer Echo Contact Sheet 1 2021 laser cut acrylic, acr 95 x 66cm SOLD
Transfer Echo Contact Sheet 2 2021 laser cut acr acrylic, 95 x 66cm
Transfer Echo Contact Sheet 3 2021 laser cut acr acrylic, 95 x 66cm
Transfer Echo Contact Sheet 4 2021 laser cut acrylic, acr 95 x 66cm
Transfer Echo 1 2021 oil on canvas, 122 x 97cm
Transfer Echo 2 2021 oil on canvas, 122 x 97cm
Transfer Echo 3 2021 oil on canvas, 122 x 97cm
Transfer Overlay in Four Colours 1 2021 oil on canvas, 122 x 97cm
Transfer Overlay in Four Colours 2 2021 oil on canvas, 122 x 97cm
Oblique Transfer 1 2021 oil on linen, 72 x 56cm SOLD
Oblique Transfer 2 2021 oil on linen, 72 x 56cm
Composite Transfer in Eight Parts 2021 oil on canvas, 122 x 112cm
Composite Transfer in Seven Parts 2021 oil on linen, 36 x 31cm
Composite Transfer in Six Parts 2021 oil on linen, 36 x 31cm SOLD
Abstract Performance in Five Acts 2021 oil on canvas, 187 x 167cm
54 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005 info@janmantonart.com janmantonart.com 0419 657 768 Front cover: Simon Degroot, Transfer Echo Contact Sheet 4, 2021, laser cut acrylic, 95 x 66cm.
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