bio
Robbie Simpson is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist who composes tender works through expressionist portraiture and exploration into fabrication; He works with oil and acrylic, as well as sewing and crochet. He is currently living and practicing in Toronto where he is completing his BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University. His work was featured in OCAD U's face2face exhibition, he has collaborated on murals for the Georgetown Farmers Market and won first place in the Remembrance Arts Contest for the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 120). Simpson will soon be practicing in Williams Mill Creative Art Studios, located outside of the GTA; Where he will be working to curate a solo exhibition in August 2024.
My art explores the notion of the innate abundance of love in every living thing in order to highlight the importance of appreciating the little things; finding conventional and unconventionally beautiful things, a bouquet of flowers or the patterns and colours of a mesh bag of clementines, there's beauty in everything if you’re looking for it. This is explored through intimate, detailed brush strokes in extremely bright and colourful portraits. As well as themes of nostalgia and childhood; I believe children have a very admirable and innocent view of the world, and we could all stand to keep up a little more childlike wonder in our adult lives. My art is a reflection of who I am at my core; I portray a colourful world in order to cope with my own mental health as well as to uplift and bring more positivity to others.
artist statement
CV
Robbie Cyrus Simpson
Toronto, Ontario
289-839-4929
Robbie.Simpson333@gmail.com
Instagram: @robbbiesimpson
Education
Georgetown District Highschool, International Baccalaureate in Arts, 2019-2021
OCAD University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Drawing and Painting, 2021-2026
Exhibition History
Group, 2022, OCAD University, First Self Portrait: Cultural Appropriation, Toronto, ON.
Awards
2014, Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 120), Youth Remembrance Contest, Georgetown, ON.
Community Works
Group, 2019, Georgetown Farmers Market, Untitled Mural, Adrienna Sisti, Georgetown, ON.