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Event: Standing On Top A Washing Machine To Throw Wine Bottles Of Paint At The Ground
Dates: 23 Mar 2024 - 23 Mar 2024
Instructions:
Collect a wine bottle from the nearby trash.
Roll 2x 6-sided dice and add the corresponding numbers of paint along with some water to the wine bottle, feel free to swirl partially/fully/not all to mix. 1 orange, 2 white, 3 yellow, 4 blue, 5 green, 6 purple.
Roll a 12 sided die, the number corresponds like a clock in the direction to throw. 12 o’clock being towards the front.
Climb on top of the washing machine and throw the bottle hard downwards.
Preparation:
A washing machine is to be stood on top of in an empty carpark (if a washing machine is unavailable other white goods, such as a fridge, or microwave will do, if none of those are available a ladder or something else tall will suffice).
It sits in the middle of an array of 33 pieces of wood or canvas (20x15x2cm), laid out in a scattered circular way around the washing machine.
The piece goes for a specified amount of time, suggested 3 hours, to end at sunset.
Once completed, the wood may be collected and
Event: Water Plants, Lemons, Bananas
Dates: 10 Nov 2023 - 10 Nov 2023
Performance
Event: I Keep Thinking This Is Over, This Is Not Over
Dates: 10 Nov 2023 - 19 Nov 2023
Large painting: abstract, flowers and text based. Also a performance
Event: The Real Cool Time Orchestra presents RAT
Dates: 30 Sep 2023 - 1 Oct 2023
The Real Cool Time Orchestra performing RAT (Roberts Augmented Thing) at Genezareth Kirche
9 guitars, 7 drummers, 2 synths, 1 banjo.
Event: Parasites We Have Known And Loved
Dates: 29 Aug 2023 - 10 Sep 2023
With The Palace Collective
Event: Playground - Painted Body Movement
Dates: 28 Aug 2023 - 10 Sep 2023
With The Palace Collective
Event: The Mirage
Dates: 14 Aug 2023 - 21 Aug 2023
With Pinky Promise
Event: Grandma Nachbar Spider Queen Dance Floor
Dates: 8 Aug 2023 - 18 Aug 2023
It had 8 meter long legs
Event: Spa
Dates: 13 Jun 2023 - 31 Aug 2023
With Pinky Promise
Event: Tendermeshh
Dates: 11 May 2023 - 13 May 2023
Group show
Event: Temple of the Cosmic Beyond
Dates: 13 Apr 2023 - 23 May 2023
With Phantazonia
Event: Quicky, Why Not?
Dates: 28 Jan 2023 - 25 Feb 2023
A shortly organised exhibition with 30 artists
Event: Parallel Portal
Dates: 13 Dec 2022 - 23 Dec 2022
With Phantazonia
Event: Light Green, Dark Purple
Dates: 18 Nov 2022 - 20 Nov 2022
An exhibition of recent paintings, most of which were created in September and October 2022.
These works build and go deeper into the ideas of colour and movement that I’ve been working with over the past few years.
The Horizontal Lines series involves many thin layers of acrylic paint, applied in sideways lines over brief intense periods. These motions are repetitive and meditating, and reflect my current physical state.
Similarly, the oil works are a representation of my body’s movement, the combinations of swirls and strokes marking the canvas with expressive gestures.
With all of these works, colour is sometimes harmonious, sometimes contrasting, and is something I am forever developing my personal relationship with.
Event: Blue, Purple, Green
Dates: 29 Oct 2021 - 31 Oct 2021
Featuring 11 works from the Horizontal Lines series. Watery paint is layered over the canvas, sometimes it adds colour, sometimes it subtracts. Whilst undertaking these eleven works I would think of a motif; watermelons, horizon lines, sunsets, a single colour, Spring, or feel the emotion I was feeling; anger, relaxation, loneliness, exhaustion. To observe how these thoughts and feelings would change the process and the piece.
In the two years since the last exhibition, painting almost every day for a year and a half has allowed a deep dive into the creative process, and in particular colour.
Performance for the opening: Wrapped Rocks 1, with musicians Hotte Schulz and Can Winter.
Event: Cortex Vortex
Dates: 1 Jul 2021 - 3 Jul 2021
Group installation with Dream World
Event: Studio Wall 2016-2020, an Exhibition
Dates: 17 Jul 2020 - 19 Jul 2020
For almost four years (2016-2020) I made works by throwing paint at canvas on the wall of my studio.
All of the colour here is from me unintentionally missing. The second wall consists purely of splashbacks, and no works were done whilst facing it.
Immediately after the exhibition I painted the walls white, and moved to a new studio.
There were two music improvisations - Hotte Schulz with Can Winter, percussion/electronics. And Ashiq Khondker, synthesizers/electronics.
Event: Dream World Order
Dates: 1 Jul 2020 - 3 Jul 2020
Group show
Event: Dream World: The Experiment
Dates: 1 Dec 2019 - 30 Dec 2019
Group show
Event: Large Body Of Water
Dates: 4 Oct 2019 - 13 Oct 2019
This exhibition marked the end of the year long exploration into blue.
Featured Works:
Reconfiguring Gradients - Performance, experimental water sounds and chemistry by Kat Austen, rearrangement of shades of blue by myself.
Cube Floor - is the canvas from beneath a performance where I threw paint from inside a transparent cube, with Hotte Schulz and Can Winter on drums and synthesizers.
Almost Symmetry - large works that show the frustrations of expectations in the creative process. "I would begin with a visualisation of a piece, prepare the studio for a few hours, and paint the work. But it would be wrong, forced and not relaxed, not satisfying to look at. I would add something more to try to fix it, and again I would feel dissatisfied, only once I gave up and enjoyed the process of throwing paint and let go of wanting to make something did I make something."
Cloud Series - three shades of blue arranged in a grid, embracing the imperfect nature of relaxed repetition.
Event: Berlin Film Festival
Dates: 1 Nov 2018 - 3 Nov 2018
Group show
Event: Simon Findlay
Dates: 1 Oct 2018 - 3 Oct 2018
Solo show
Event: Art Kreuzberg Festival
Dates: 1 Jul 2018 - 3 Jul 2018
Group show
Event: Gallery Opening
Dates: 1 May 2018 - 3 May 2018
Group show
Event: Kunst Im Raum
Dates: 1 Apr 2018 - 3 Apr 2018
Solo show
Event: Simon Findlay
Dates: 2 Jan 2018 - 2 Mar 2018
Solo show
Event: Growing Pains
Dates: 1 Sep 2017 - 3 Sep 2017
Group show
Event: Simon Findlay
Dates: 10 Jan 2017 - 10 Jan 2017
Solo show
Biography
As part of his process based artistic practice, some of the performances he has done include; throwing rocks in a snow storm whilst wearing only short shorts, using only blue for a year, exploring different tools such as brooms and long bendy sticks to extend the paint brush, ripping apart and restapling canvases, throwing paint inside a transparent cube with accompanying musicians, and “Standing On Top A Washing Machine To Throw Wine Bottles Of Paint At The Ground.”
He is based in Berlin, Germany since 2016. Prior to this he was in Melbourne, Australia.
