About Malcolm Koch
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Education
1986 - 1989
University of South Australia
Awards
2018
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2016
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2014
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2011
South Australian Living Artist Festival (SALA Festival)
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Event: Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
Dates: 8 Jun 2018 - 5 Aug 2018
Finalist exhibition
Event: Quantum Brushstrokes
Dates: 23 Mar 2017 - 23 Apr 2017
Similar to the way other artists might use brushstrokes to create human expressions on the surface of a canvas, quantum brushstrokes are events that occur on curved structures. In this exhbition, I’ve used saw cuts, drill holes and paint pourings on all kinds of curves to try to represent the physical properties found in nature. The curved structures create a framework that allow connections and entangled systems to manifest and evolve. Finally it is flattened out for us to observe.
Event: Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
Dates: 24 Jun 2016 - 31 Oct 2016
Finalist and highly commended
Event: Visual Entanglement
Dates: 21 Mar 2016 - 3 Jun 2016
Quarks and leptons are the building blocks of matter — I've created a series of drill holes and paint pouring events on curled and wavy structures. These represent the geometry of a particle's properties (expressed by the edges of the negative spaces). The curved structure creates a framework that allows for connections and entangled systems to manifest and evolve before it is flattened out to the 2D-form for observation.
Event: Under the Surface
Dates: 1 Aug 2014 - 26 Sep 2014
Using different artistic forms and media, Malcolm Koch joins Christopher and Therese Williams in an exploration of what lies beneath the surface of the world around us.
Event: Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
Dates: 20 Jun 2014 - 31 Oct 2014
Finalist and Highly Commended
Event: Membrane Art
Dates: 4 Jun 2014 - 31 Jul 2014
A collection of 11 works, featuring 3 works in progress.
Event: Membrane Art
Dates: 31 May 2011 - 27 May 2011
Inaugural solo exhibition
Biography
'Everything is an event on the skin' – Hermann von Helmholtz.
Malcolm's curved canvases are worked on as three dimensional objects. However, rather than considering the interplay between solid and space - as a sculptor does, his process returns to the 'flat two dimensional picture plane’ (the switch from 3D to 2D). Working in this way creates reciprocal and distinct marks as a single expression. An aesthetic that is only possible through the use of a curved surface. So, when finally we observe them on a two-dimensional picture plane a different aesthetic emerges. Demonstrating that past events don’t disappear but an alternative purpose and meaning eventuates in the transformation of flattening the profile from one environment to another – setting in motion a further process of deep reflection or meditation.
Malcolm is inspired by current scientific understanding of our universe and the way nature itself could be. His work aims to reflect a truth about the human condition — that we are tied to a flat universe yet entangled with all its probabilities in the vastness of infinite space.
An aesthetic thought that he has been evolving since 2004.
