The North Wind, 2024

Mook’s paintings inject new narratives into familiar scenes- investigating alternate realities, romantic landscapes and colonial foolishness. His work interrupts the familiar and playfully interrogates reality, history and culture with a mixture of wit, weirdness and pathos. In the “Australian Classic” series, Mook takes reproductions of beloved colonial Artworks and alters them – removing the the subjects, changing the field of view and contents of the scene- and then adds in new subjects, stories and structures. He has exhibited in a 2024 solo exhibition, numerous group exhibitions and was a finalist in both the Adelaide Parklands Art Prize, 2023 and Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, 2023.

Mook Simpson aka Mark Simpson born 1974
Lives in Sydney, Australia

Bachelor of Arts (Psych) from Adelaide University

Creative Director Sixty40 Animation Sydney 2000-2018
Creative Director Evrywhere Los Angeles 2018-2020
Study

Finalist Adelaide Parklands Art Prize 2023
Finalist Australian Maritime Art Prize 2023

Exhibitions
The Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia ,Group Show, 2022
“Welcome To Re-Australia” The Other Art Fair, Group Show, Sydney 2023
“Love + Chaos” SkidRow Mural 601 Gladys Avenue, Los Angeles 2023
“Pretty Unsettling” Damien Minton Presents, Solo show, Sydney 2024