Guy Simpson | Was Here

Goodman Gallery Johannesburg is pleased to present Guy’s Simpson’s Was Here his first gallery presentation in the city where he was born and raised. Emerging from a network of artist-run spaces in Cape Town – where he now lives – Simpson’s practice sits at the unusual intersection of documentation and abstraction, translating photographic record into dense, materially layered and extraordinarily innovative and often sculptural paintings. By focussing on the minutiae of the spaces we inhabit, he offers an understated and beautifully tactile meditation on the transitions of places and communities.