Simon Degroot
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 maintains an active profile of solo and group exhibitions including: Decorate at Wellington St Projects, Sydney (2017), Picture Building at Kick Arts Contemporary, Cairns (2016), Indirect Response Postgraduate and Other Projects Griffith University, Brisbane (2015), Composite Orders Rubicon Ari, Melbourne (2015), Shallow Space Australian National Capital Artists Gallery, Canberra (2014). In 2015 and 2018 he was awarded the Moreton Bay Art Award.
In addition to his studio practice Degroot creates large-scale wall paintings and exterior murals. He has completed significant public work for a range of high profile clients including The City of South Perth, Bundaberg Regional Galleries, Queensland Rail, Cairns Regional Council, Brisbane City Council and The Brisbane Hilton. These projects compliment his studio investigations and provide opportunities for expanded painting.
“Soft Pressing by Brisbane based artist, Simon Degroot, is an exhibition that investigates and encourages interaction with surfaces that make up our everyday environments.”
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Exhibiting artist Simon Degroot joined Alain Guillemain in the space to explore the theme of ‘Gestural marks as being' in Abbreviated Gestures (5 - 23 September).
Congratulations to Natalie Lavelle, Dylan Jones and Simon Degroot for being selected as finalists in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2022. The exhibition is showing between Saturday 29 October – Friday 9 December 2022 in the Campbelltown Arts Centre..
“Blocking out the majority of his canvas, Simon Degroot paints a large, delightfully pink and deliberately off-kilter asterisk. Slowly tracing its contours reveals a playful tension between the digital perfection of its source (the little star of typography) and the human error of the artist’s hand..”
In our latest From the Studio interview, Jan Manton Gallery visited Simon Degroot’s studio to learn more about the references, influences, and layers embedded within the artists’ paintings for his new exhibition Simultaneous Disguise.
Congratulations Simon Degroot who is a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize at Caloundra Regional Gallery..
Congratulations to our artists Dadang Christanto and Simon Degroot whose works were recently shown in Artisan Gallery for the exhibition 'Reflection Distortion' curated by Cassandra Lehman…
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Simon Degroot
Fantastricaprice 1
2018
Oil on canvas
167 x 183cm
$12,000
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