DJ Simpson

Since graduating from Goldsmith’s College in 1998, DJ Simpson has developed his unique paintings to great critical acclaim.

DJ Simpson’s large monochrome or mirrored plywood panels are scarred in lines of various widths and depths created using an electric router power tool. Like a methodically violent version of an Etch-a-Sketch game, the router carves paths across the perfect surfaces of the panels revealing differing layers and colours in the overlapping surfaces of the wood.

The resulting panels are simple, intelligent and cool examinations of painting and mark making that belie their loud and painstaking creation. The works play a balance between the academic concerns of materials and processes, and the purely physical presence of the huge electrically scarred panels.

For this, his first major solo exhibition, DJ Simpson is creating an environment made up of three huge works. One is coloured formica, one is white colour-core and the other is a 24ft x 9ft mirrored board. These pieces continue Simpson’s exploration of painting but form an important point in the development of his practice. The three panels were conceived together for the Entwistle space and push the work further towards a sculptural dissecting of the gallery space.

Solo exhibitions: Site, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1999; Morrison Judd, London, 1999 Group exhibitions: One Night Pub, Unit, London, 1998; Ways of Living, RMIT Project Space, Victoria, Australia, 1999; Formerly, Jerwood Gallery, London, 1999; Group show, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany, 1999; Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London, 1999; New Contemporaries, London, Liverpool, 1999.

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DJ Simpson