Andrew Simms

Working from Wangal land in Eora.

My creative expression investigates my relationship between the world outside and my world within. From a young age drawing was the beggining of my artistic practice where I learnt and honed a particular set of techniques that I have expanded in painting, photography, video, and screen printing, Where screen printing is a space that allows me to pull these mediums together. My perspective of the external reflects a fascination with sight, light, the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime and the ordinary. My world within is a personal space where I can express raw emotion as an abstraction that responds to, and liberates me from ideologies, politics, consumerism, and society generally.

Drawing, abstract art, and explorations of the urban environment, give my mind time out from the more intensive work I make around social and pop cultural reflections, political critiques, to social detours and culture jams. From time to time I will execute works that deliver satire and expression to hijack and subvert the viewers perception of mainstream paradigms in an effort to counter destructive cultural and countercultural vehicles. It is not lost on me that my work is not detached from my own perspectives and knowledge, it is in part a reflection of who I am, where I am and what I exist within, to this end my artistic practice will be ever changing. As i change my art will change, as society changes my art will change, it is a contemporary flux, where transformation is never ending.

ars longa vita brevis